It was ultimately a year about women, with Herstory Festival and Bechdel Testing proving that there was plenty of excellent new writing from women, despite Hampstead Theatre claiming otherwi…
Although it was built in the 16th century, Middle Temple Hall is a very appropriate setting for Dickens' A Christmas Carol, particularly as Dickens was a student at Middle Temple from 1839 t…
There are too many joys in the show to list them all. Be sure to look out for the arrival of Jefferson after the interval. Just try to get a ticket to the room where it happens and be ready …
Jethro Compton, the accomplished writer and director of White Fang, has created this gritty and magical adaptation of Jack London's novel of the same name. It is exceptional.
Over the last few years, the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond has put itself back on the map for a younger generation of theatregoer, with an eclectic and unpredictable programme of events th…
Rapunzel's fantastic cast of children and young adults represent a cross-section of 21st Century Britain. The inclusive cast of Rapunzel are genuinely diverse: from physically disabled to ab…
An international cabaret phenomenon, La Soirée has been seen for the last few years in places like the Spiegeltent at London Wonderground, but it makes the leap across the river to the West…
Daisy Pulls It Off only works if the performers get the tone right. In Park Theatre's production, they do it perfectly - it's hilarious... If you're after a ripping laughing this Christmas, …
You don't have to be a wild boar (or a critic) to enjoy Wild Bore... Oh man, the sheer fucking horror of it; the burden that comes with being a straight white male critic who's sexually reta…
A world of potential conflict here, and the casting works well. At times the production does engage deeply, particularly in the bruising encounter of all three together for the first time in…
The Finborough revival of Jerome K Jerome's 1908 chamber piece continues the fringe venue's glorious taste for dusting off forgotten works; a production that reproduces the original's manner…
Bad Roads by Natal’ya Vorozhbit is a much-needed reminder of what's happening in the Ukraine and how the war is affecting its willing and unwilling participants.
The Old Vic's Christmas Carol is enough to make a merry man out of the worst seasonal curmudgeon. It boasts an effervescent Scrooge in Rhys Ifans " all wild hair and projectile spittle, and …
Designed to challenge our misconceptions about sex workers and their industry, Sex Worker's Opera is a campaign, a celebration, a cabaret by and about sex workers. The show offers us an affe…
We Apologise For The Inconvenience takes place during a fraught episode when Douglas Adams' agent locked him in a hotel room and refused to let him leave until he had finished The Hitchhiker…
The Cervantes Theatre's current staging of Lorca's classic, alternating between English and Spanish, is a powerful and deeply humane examination of the effects of ruling through oppression, …
vo van Hove's production, starring Bryan Cranston in the iconic Peter Finch role, makes the case for itself by inviting audience identification with Beale's angry, uncensored, unedited, unco…
We are promised a "choreography with words", dozens of mini-scenes showing different experiences in making that one step, across a border, taken from myriad film and TV, familiar and unknown.
Fiona Skinner played a blinder as Emma, the uncomfortably pregnant, disillusioned mum-to-be, challenging the usual stereotypes of what pregnancy is meant to feel like. She'd have been welcom…
When I mentioned to friends the concept behind tonight's production " thirty plays are performed within the space of an hour, with the audience deciding which order they're acted in " they w…
Matthew Campling, a former counsellor, has crafted a psychologically dense and often intense dialogue between broken people; pain catalysed by an allegation of sexual assault.
Even putting your coat and bag in the cloakroom feels like a scary Soviet Union policy. But without spoiling too much, you don't want to be weighed down by all your life crap in your bag bec…
Martin McNamara's follow up to Your Ever Loving is a very different tale. The focus is on Agnes (Safron Beck) who gives Joan "the Freak" Ferguson from Prisoner Cell Block H vibes.
In many ways football and the theatre are similar. Both have intervals, both provide an entertaining evening or matinee performance and it isn't particularly original or insightful to compar…
Federico Garcia Lorca's play, The House of Bernarda Alba, offers an interesting insight into the world of upper-middle-class Spanish women in the 1930s, living in a small village where every…