Half a century ago, Kafka's The Trial (written around 1920) still read like a brilliant, if paranoid, fantasy. Re-read it now, in the age of extraordinary rendition and mass surveillance, an…
Love's Labour's Lost, an early Shakespeare play, seems to be a seriously schematic romcom: four men, the King of Navarre and his companions, swear off romance, just before four beautiful wom…
Opponents of all-female casts or doubters who feel that the great classical male roles should kept immune from women will have their work cut out maintaining such a position of entrenched sc…
Peer Gynt reinvented as a preening, booze-fuelled stadium rock god in existential free-fall? Yes, that's what Ibsen's fantasizing, compulsively deceptive loon of hero becomes, in his pot-bel…
There is little in the way of warmth in Harold Pinter's masterly dissection of middle class philandering.
What a time for The Infidel to land on stage.
Imelda Staunton looks as though she's just run a half marathon " glistening, a bit wrung-out, and ready to flop " when, with director Jonathan Kent, she enters the cafeteria at 3 Mills Studi…
Marianela Nuñez's Manon jumps out of the coach, young and fresh, with a sensuous pleasure in movement.
He has often been judged a victim of Victorian hypocrisy, but is Oscar Wilde really the saint and martyr he is now held up to be?
The activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee must seem like ancient history to younger audiences, probably even a lot of older ones too.
Did she turn up to this most intensely " not to say, morbidly " awaited First Night of the theatrical season? Yes, she did. Did she stay to the end? Indubitably. Did she remember all her lin…
If you were running a creative writing class, Theresa Rebeck's mordantly funny and terminally knowing comedy would be very far from the first play that you'd be keen for your group to study …
Kristin Scott Thomas and director Ian Rickson are developing into one of the great creative partnerships of our time. After a Chekhov and two Pinters, they are reunited now on this devastati…
Rarely does a night out at the theatre require waterproofs, snacks and a train ticket. Yet the new "immersive" drama by the National Theatre Wales will take audience members on a journey fro…
This revival of Philip Ridley's 1994 play, directed with clear vision by Russell Bolam, toys with the idea that our memories of the past are imperfect and can also seem more real than the pr…
Howard Brenton's new play, directed with warmth and humour by John Dove, tells the true story of pioneering plastic surgeon Dr Howard Gillies, who specialised in facial reconstruction during…
Former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger has joined the West End cast of cats.
Lindsay Lohan has defended her West End debut after she was accused of forgetting her lines during the first performance of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow.
Blessed with long, powerful legs, beautifully fluid arms and an opened-out, all-giving style of expression, the young Royal Ballet star Melissa Hamilton has been compared to "Charlize Theron…
Marianela Nuñez's Manon jumps out of the coach, young and fresh, with a sensuous pleasure in movement. Around her, the pimps and would-be clients circle. Kenneth MacMillan's Manon is tale…
He is known for his cutting remarks as a Strictly Come Dancing judge, but Craig Revel Horwood is set to swap the sequins for the stage and star in musical Annie.
Laurie Sansom's thrillingly authoritative production of Rona Munro's brilliant, myriad-minded and mood-ranging trilogy of plays about three Stewart kings in the turbulent 15th century op…
Given the amount of headlines it created, One Man Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean must have known he was onto a winner when he took the tabloid phone hacking scandal and turned it his la…
Titanic? A mere trifle. Harry Potter, Avatar and Star Wars? Cult movies.
The stars of a controversial anti-racist theatrical work which features black people in chains have attacked the protesters who have forced them off stage - saying the censorship is "insane"…