Things are going well for Vinay Patel. After a succession of short plays his debut full-length play, True Brits, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. A relative newcomer t…
Peter Brook Awards: Incoming Festival We’re delighted to announce that the Incoming Festival co-curated by A Younger Theatre and New Diorama, has been invited to present a new Peter Br…
The opening image of Théâtre National de Nice's production of Peer Gynt belies the uniqueness and downright bizarre nature of what is to follow. Downstage centre, in the middle of an exp…
I'm sitting in a bank of empty seats at Half Moon Young People's Theatre, watching two actors leap through lines of dialogue more like performance poetry than speech. Their rhythms and tempo…
It is very ambitious of the National Youth Theatre REP Company to stage one of Shakespeare’s most prominent plays with such a young cast of performers, but I thoroughly applaud their e…
Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar is a play that demands a big-name, big-talent lead. The original Broadway production chose Alan Rickman; the Hampstead Theatre have opted for the excellent Rog…
The October drizzle on press night at the Peacock Theatre meant this midweek audience had good reason to start their evening a little more reserved than normal. Thankfully by the end of the …
Now that gay marriage is legal in the UK, while in Russia matters only seem to get worse, the Hen and Chickens this week presents a double bill inspired by these developments. One is To Be a…
In the current theatrical climate that's awash with abstract and mind-bogglingly inaccessible productions, it's very easy to forget how powerful a good old-fashioned play can be. This is the…
Oscar Wilde’s cautionary tale of The Picture of Dorian Gray is well known and loved by generations of literary, film and theatre fans. This updated setting performed by The National Yo…
There’s an undeniably cliched 80s feel to David Mamet’s three-hander, Speed-the-Plow. It captures a Working Girl-esque image of corporate America, of the dog-eat-dog wor…
Debs Gatenby has just driven across the Yorkshire Dales and, as this interview takes place, is staying at her mum's. It's an appropriate location, givien that the topic of conversation is Hi…
RIVE Productions presents THE DOG, THE NIGHT AND THE KNIFE by Marius Von Mayenburg, Translated by Maja Zade Sep 18 2014 – Oct 18 2014 Arcola Theatre ‘Do something and something w…
Seven years on from the 7/7 bombings, Damien Tracey has written Warde Street, a play which considers the lasting effects of the tragedy on politics, religion and relationships. Unfortunately…
Of all the weird and wonderful guises under which improv comedy can be presented, a murder mystery sounds like a brilliant idea " we all love a game of Cluedo, and with the unpredictability …
I like neon yellow lights on the front of a Wild West saloon as much as the next theatre critic, but even Mimi Jordan Sherin’s lighting and Miriam Buether’s set design isn’…
Venture Wolf’s Edward II is set in the 1920s. We sit down amidst dancing and merriment; the cast are vibrant, smiling and interacting with each other; the intimate space means no air i…
The Print Room opens at its new venue the Coronet with Notes from Underground, starring Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones, Doctor Who), running 6 Oct " 1 Nov. For their weekday 9.15pm…
UNCLE VANYA St James Theatre 8 Oct " 8 Nov Exclusive Student Offer " Tickets just £20 (usually up to £39.50) Valid student ID required, one ticket per ID A beautiful autumn day, rural …
With their 2014 edition coming up this week, CASA Latin American Theatre Festival's Artistic Director Daniel Goldman talks about the challenges " and joys " of putting together a major inter…
Boy Blue Entertainment’s The Five & The Prophecy of Prana, attempts, like its title, to invoke an elaborate theatrical world drawn from manga comics and films " the show even inclu…
Charlie Conlon (Joseph Begley) and Jake Quinn (Niall Bishop) are thirty-something, unemployed and live in a small Irish town in County Kerry where Hollywood has just landed to shoot a rural …
Epoch: 1950 takes the incredibly cool spaces at The Vaults and transports the audience back to the 1950s. This unique theatre experience offers three short plays from three different comp…
Visit your local cinema these days and, among the listings for all the big budget blockbusters and rom-coms, you will start to notice an increasingly cultural feature " the theatre is coming…
Every now and then a performer manages to reset the bar of what can be achieved in theatrical circumstances; Kristin Scott Thomas just broke the bar in her portrayal of a woman drowning in g…