New American drama directs a rapier wit at black stereotypes Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview comes to the Young Vic with the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama under its belt, and a reputation …
David Greig's dream-drama of cosmic loneliness is sci-fi at its most philosophical David Greig's reimagining of StanisÅ‚aw Lem's 1961 novel has brought a masterpiece of intellectual scien…
More manner than message in adaptation of Klaus Mann's 1930s novel You wonder about the title of French dramatist Sam Gallet's Mephisto [A Rhapsody], an adaptation for our days of Klaus Mann…
Questions of faith in Katori Hall's luminous meditation on belief, doubt and miracles The American dramatist Katori Hall has created a work of rare accomplishment in Our Lady of Kibeho, a pl…
John Simm is a strikingly intelligent Thane in a broadly theatrical production There's a fine balance between the cosmic and the closely crafted in director Paul Miller's Macbeth, his first …
Christopher Hampton adapts von Horváth's novel about the mindset of totalitarianism The only novel by the Hungarian dramatist Ödön von Horváth, Youth Without God was written in ex…
An original piece of theatre-making finds joyous exuberance, as well as sorrow, in the immigrant experience Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch's "refugee musical" " now there's a phrase y…
Rich in empathy, dramatically raw, Alexander Zeldin's bleak study of society on the edge Alexander Zeldin continues his devastating analysis of modern Britain in this culminating play of…
Matthew Needham in lithe drag queen form opens new London venue London's latest theatre opening brings a stirring revival of Harvey Fierstein's vital gay drama, which premiered as Torch Song…
Florian Zeller's play of family anguish receives a much-deserved West End transfer A tale of teenage depression and its family resonances, Florian Zeller's The Son has a devastating simplici…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's 2013 play is tensely dark, as well as very funny You can't fail to feel the ghosts in Appropriate: they are there in the very timbers of the ancient Southern planta…
New West London venue opens with a zestful spectacular to suit all ages London's Troubadour White City theatre has got off to a, literally, flying start.
Lean and hungry brilliance in Ned Bennett's production of Peter Shaffer When he gave Martin Dysart, the troubled psychiatrist protagonist of Equus, a line in which he speaks about "moments o…
Stagecraft skill and company playing meld seamlessly in Petersburg production Lev Dodin has been artistic director of the famed Maly Drama Theatre for some three and a half decades now, ove…
The indelible power of Lynn Nottage's new play confirmed in Donmar transfer There's a joke early on in Sweat, Lynn Nottage's superlative drama about American working lives, in which a lively…
Okwui Okpokwasili's solo performance piece is an astounding piece of theatre It's hard, and finally fruitless to attempt to describe Okwui Okpokwasili's Bronx Gothic in conventional terms of…
Declan Donnellan riffs on Beaumont's meta-comedy in flavoursome Russian Declan Donnellan has a rich record of working with Russian actors: his previous walk on the Slavic side, the darkly po…
Lenny Henry leads a strong cast in August Wilson's 1999 play of African American identity The huge achievement of the last two decades or so of August Wilson's life, right up to his death in…
Arthur Miller's possession drama staged for spectacle The Crucible is a play that speaks with unrelenting power at times of discord, most of all when the public consciousness looks ripe for …
Powerful production of Arthur Miller's play of fraternal discord, past painThere's a sublime equilibrium to Arthur Miller's 1968 play between the overwhelmingly heavy weight of history …
The season's closing pairing presents Danny Dyer and a radio revelationIt was back to the very beginning for this final instalment of "Pinter at the Pinter", with its pairing of A Sligh…
Adrian Lester compels in new American drama about care and connectionThe Off Broadway production of Cost of Living two years ago brought Martyna Majok the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the …
DH Lawrence's tragically inflected 1913 tale of family relationships powerfully toldThere's a stark power to Jack Gamble's production of DH Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law, which has tra…
Love it or leave it production sends the RSC on a laboured way to EssexFor those of us who have never thought much before about links between pantomime and Shakespeare, Fiona Laird's new Mer…
Natasha Gordon joins the company as her debut drama transfers from the NationalThis is Natasha Gordon's first play, and in it she has created a whole world. A world of grief and laughter, co…