This engaging project from Company of Angels and political theatre group METIS presents uneasy facts about the global textile industry in the form of an interactive Monopoly-style game.
Peter Pan's idea of fun is selfish and often cruel or dangerous. As the archetypal boy who refuses to grow up, his creation seems an act of protest by JM Barrie against stifling Edwardian va…
Simon Godwin's first words to me are: "Can we start this on the balcony? I'm allowed to smoke out there." You can certainly forgive the director a few urgent drags of nicotine: there is, as …
Meet Rupert and Robert: the former is one of Britain's most feted theatre directors, the latter one of its most fast-rising.
It takes approximately 90 seconds to register that Frances de la Tour is a shocking flirt. As she perches beside me on the sofa in the first-floor bar of the Ivy Club in Soho, her eyes lock …
Neverland is a great fit for this outdoor theatre, but Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel's production offers us another world too: the familiar story is framed by scenes in a First World War fi…
This production comes to life at the moment when a man takes off his shirt. Our romantic hero Orlando (Simon Harrison) is preparing to wrestle; our heroine Rosalind, catches a glimpse of…
In writing a play about fashion designer Alexander McQueen, James Phillips has sensibly eschewed a straight bio-drama in favour of a one-night fairytale, a whirl across London from his posh …
Grandly presented to the world as the first known image of William Shakespeare to have been produced while he was alive, a 400-year-old drawing said to depict the Bard in his prime and with …
"There are, of course, very great pieces " the ancient Greek tragedies, for example " but they are no match for Hamlet." We are in the Saitama Arts Theatre, his base just north of Tokyo, and…
The scene is Old Trafford, where a young girl " playing for Manchester United " boots the ball and scores a goal. The crowd goes wild. This was the opening dream sequence of Gurinder Chadha'…
This engaging project from Company of Angels and political theatre group METIS presents uneasy facts about the global textile industry in the form of an interactive monopoly-style game.
Rediscovered songs from My Fair Lady are to be performed for the first time after being uncovered by a lecturer at the University of Sheffield.
When the doors of St Paul's Cathedral closed to worshippers and sightseers in October 2011, because of anxiety over the proximity of the Occupy movement's protest camp, shockwaves reverberat…
What a treat this show is. A hotchpotch of previouses - adapted by Arthur Kopit from Philip Barry's 1939 play The Philadelphia Story, but owing more to the 1956, Cole Porter-scored film vers…
Northern Ballet is best known for its full-length story ballets, so it's a treat to see another side of these dancers in a varied mixed bill. They're an engaging company, building an immedia…
What's really behind those communicating doors in hotel rooms? Alan Ayckbourn's answer in this 'comic thriller' is: a timewarp. A literally revolving, magical doorway leads three women from …
If you're planning to see The Father - and read no further for assurance, you really should - come back to the reviews afterwards. The play creates a fruitful disorientation it's better not …
I want to love Rambert's new Dark Arteries, which puts a brass band on stage and frames it with a large cast of dancers. The playing of Tredegar Town Band is sonorous and splendid, but Mark …
Odon von Horvath was 37 when he died. He was walking along the Champs Elysées in a thunderstorm when lightning struck a tree; a branch fell and hit him on the head, killing him instantly. T…
In Merthyr Labour Club, National Theatre Wales' artistic director John E McGrath has found a lively venue that decisively helps re-shape Bertolt Brecht's 1939 play.
Wayne McGregor's new Woolf Works glows with ambition, crowned by Alessandra Ferri's charismatic central performance. In his first evening-length work for The Royal Ballet, McGregor blends bi…
Alright everyone, gird your loins: A musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada could be making its way onto Broadway very soon
In many ways it's appropriate that in the English National Opera's hour of financial need Mike Leigh should ride to the rescue on the wings of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Avaes Mohammad wanted to write a play about Muslim extremism in the North of England. Actually, he wanted to write three " a trilogy, going from 9/11 to the present moment. But when he appro…