Francesca Mills' protagonist is the vivacious, truthful heart of this fascinating production "All discord without this circumference," the Duchess of Malfi tells the good man she's just aske…
Olivier Award-winning musical offers a celebration of community and a stirring exploration of a brutalist building's history Can there be anyone from Sheffield who has not seen Standing at t…
★★★ CRUEL INTENTIONS, THE OTHER PALACE Bad people do bad things, but bangers from Britney and co save the day Jukebox musical gets toes tapping, even if the thrill of t…
Lucy Kirkwood's latest mixes the birth of the NHS with a Brief Encounter-ish romance Keeley Hawes onstage is something to look forward to, so rare are her appearances there. In Lucy Kirkwo…
★★★ NACHTLAND, YOUNG VIC Patrick Marber directs flawed but fascinating disquisition on the past's relevance to the present in art, politics and morality Something to laugh …
The rise of fascism in the 1930s East End is given a human face Hot on the heels of Brigid Larmour's updating of The Merchant of Venice to the East End in 1936, a spirited new musical acr…
New comedy about masculinity and music is predictable and clumsy One island off the coast of Spain has more cultural oomph than all the rest put together. I'm talking about Ibiza, the sun-s…
New play about love and memory is exquisitely written and beautifully acted For the past ten years, Black-British playwrights have been in the vanguard of innovation in the form and content …
Tracy-Ann Oberman turns Shylock into a heroic Jewish anti-fascist It's an unhappy time to be staging Shakespeare's problematic play, given its antisemitic content, so hats off to adaptor-dir…
Revived 20 years on, this Windrush musical lands differently, but is still wonderfully entertaining Is there a healthier sound than that of laughter ringing round a theatre? There are p…
Felicity Huffman, heading a superb cast, is a force of nature In 2017, two years after Hir premiered, Taylor Mac was awarded a "Genius Grant" and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for drama. Th…
'We don't use the word slave round here' - 21st century tourism skewered You do not need to be Einstein to feel it. If the only dimension missing is time, 75% of a place's being can invade …
Laura Donnelly once again soars in tailor-made part/s scripted by her partner Art makes for unexpected bedfellows, and so it proves in Jez Butterworth's moving if meandering The Hills of Ca…
Yaël Farber presents Shakespeare's blistering play with bravura Less than three years after her magnificent Macbeth, Yaël Farber returns to the Almeida with another Shakespeare tragedy…
Tony-winning production lands in the West End with an astounding cast Doom and gloom, we are told, may have abounded in the classical underworld, but Hadestown suggests otherwise. Returning …
Matt Smith stars in heavy-handed adaptation of Ibsen's 1880s classic, here with onetime Tony nominee Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) in glowering support
Matt Smith gives his all in unyielding adaptation of Ibsen morality play Real life is a helluva lot scarier right now than you might guess from the performative theatrics on display in the …
John Logan peers behind the scenes of the film world to muse on the icky relationship between life and art It's awards season in the film world, which means that we're currently swamped by …
Sarah Snook gives a virtuoso performance amid a dazzling display of tech wizardry Oscar Wilde's 1890 novella The Picture of Dorian Gray has given the world a trope built for flattery, along …
Real-life triangle around the composer's darkest masterpiece yields fitfully strong drama David Hemmings was, by his own later admission, a knowing and bumptious boy when Britten cast him as…
A pitch-perfect Lindsay Duncan leads a large and splendid cast in Dodie Smith rediscovery Sisters are doing it for themselves, just as families as a whole are, too, on the London stage thes…
★★★ JUST FOR ONE DAY, THE OLD VIC Nostalgia fest becomes a little uncomfortable when addressing a 21st century audience Saint Bob, Mrs T and a whole lot of feelgood. Oh,…
End-of-days drama from centimetres-high clay figures, in a powerful collaboration from Scottish and Norwegian companies In terms of conveying monumental events using small-scale means, Edinb…
A shocking attack kicks off an audacious experience that makes its audience complicit, in Clare Duffy's ambitious but patchy show There's been an incident in Edinburgh. Right near the Scotti…
Age has not withered one jot the FAs' fury at the absurdities of modern life You don't expect a couple of septuagenarian contraltos, aided by a spring chicken of a soprano in her fifties, t…