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Thrillingly balancing dangerous drama and rapturous romance, John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet enthrals once again in this grandly staged, meticulously recreated hallmark production from The Au…
All I can really say about Apples in Winter at the Playground Theatre is that it's really, really good, with an immensely powerful one-woman performance from Edie Campbell that will leave yo…
The Original Theatre Company is currently touring with a new adaption, by Rachel Wagstaff, of The Mirror Crack'd, from Agatha Christie's 1962 novel, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. It …
If you could meet your 15-year-old-self, what would you say? Would your point of view be any different from theirs? Or perhaps the only deviation would be time has honed your views with grea…
Apples in Winter is an enthralling, emotional and impactful play which will no doubt appeal to anyone with an interest in the criminal justice system but will resonate for so many more. A re…
C. P. Taylor's play Good, written in 1981 is about the easy slide into extremism, how a decidedly ordinary, peaceable even tolerant man with no obvious belief in the outcomes of Nazism can a…
Written by Peter Oswald and Alexander J Gifford 'after' an unfinished play by Friedrich Schiller, Dmitry is the story of the much loved, youngest son of the Tzar of Russia who was murdered "…
We take a closer look at what critics have been saying about Amit Sharma's production The Boy With Two Hearts now playing at the National Theatre until 12 November 2022.
There's a new musical from Skitzoid Productions in town at the Waterloo East Theatre, and it is one with a message " or to be accurate, several messages. We are all present at a sales confer…
This year sees the 50th anniversary of Michael Foreman's classic story Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish, a cautionary tale about environmental destruction which remains as relevant as ever. Ba…
Therapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it's all about character " and it has the aim of producing a recognisable change. But who is most affected by the process: client or therapist? Geo…
How can such a small item of jewellery create so much chaos and disruption? The blood coloured coral brooch appears to lead the wearer to become obsessed with power and wealth. The Coral mak…
While Christopher Haydon's of The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Rose Theatre is filled with playfulness, it feels also as though it has too many ideas crammed into it, making it feel a littl…
There's a lot to appreciate in Guinea Pigs at The Space. The central inspiration is a topic that's been deliberately covered up and will therefore be news to many audience members, and Elin …
The game is afoot once more, as Blackeyed Theatre hase adapted the Sherlock Holmes story The Valley of Fear into a brand new stage show. This production is currently touring the country, and…
Looking across cultural representations of women in the past 100 years it is possible to draw connections between characters such as Hester Collier in Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, P…
It takes a fair bit of courage to open a new London venue with a play about the honour of Russia given the current political situation; but that is what we have in Dmitry, currently playing …
Given the nature of the show and its subject matter, The Quality of Mercy is an 'understated' affair. However, this is not a criticism or back-handed compliment. Quite the opposite. Flay has…
Daniel J Carver's Revealed at Bristol's Tobacco Factory has been heralded as the most important work the space has ever presented. Perhaps the pitch pushes this conceit a little far, but wha…
The Famous Five " A New Musical, a collaboration between Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatr Clwyd, brings a fresh vibe that sees writer Elinor Cook and director Tamara Harvey concentrate…
In recent years the 'rediscovery' of Summer and Smoke and an impressive production of The Night of the Iguana have awakened an interest in what are considered Williams' lesser-known major wo…
All's Well is the definition of a tricky play, with its combination of the fantastical and the emotionally brutal, its historically specific yet confusingly vague setting and its hard-nosed,…
Discover what critics have made of Lyndsey Turner's production of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, officially open at the National Theatre's Olivier space.
Pitched somewhere between cabaret and recital, but most definitely a piece of true theatre, Only An Octave Apart (the title refers to the fact that Anthony Roth Costanzo is a classical count…
Theatre doesn't get much more personal than this. The Quality of Mercy is the story of serial killer Harold Shipman, written and performed by Edwin Flay " a patient of Shipman's as a child, …
