BrainCan - theatre

john boyega webchat - your questions answered on...

The Star Wars actor is currently appearing on stage in Woyzeck,and answered your questions on Attack...

dont forget all thats happened: queer histories in...

In Outlaws to In-Laws,seven short plays chart how gay lives hold changed decade by decade since the...

richard eyre on the hollow crowns henry iv: from...

For the BBC series,Eyre took Shakespeare’s histories out into the country they portrayed, shooting...

the oresteia review - gripping aeschylus in a...

Home,ManchesterSpinning quickly through the cycle of slaughter and reprisal, Blanche McIntyre’s...

the remains of maisie duggan review - dark, family...

Peacock stage,Abbey theatre, DublinCarmel Winters’ familiar anecdote of domestic dysfunction plays...

finding a twin for lenny henry: a casting...

The Comedy of Errors features not one but two sets of identical twins who,if they don’t recognize...

marianne jean baptiste: kindness is a religion,...

Seventeen years after being nominated for an Oscar for her role in Mike Leigh's award-winning...

lawrence of arabia: a man in flight from himself

As Howard Brenton’s play about TE Lawrence opens in London,William Boyd discovers that the truth...

why this play, and how? questions playwrights must...

Glyn Maxwell’s maxim (common saying expressing a principle of conduct) ‘whoever masters form...

flowers for mrs harris review - seamlessly...

Crucible,SheffieldAn improbable new musical about a postwar London charlady in adore with haute...

the absurd comedy that is londons housing crisis

When we set out to fabricate (to make up, invent) a show approximately the baroque horror of the...

memo to julian fellowes: period dramas should...

Defending the all-white cast in Half a Sixpence,Fellowes suggests diversity is trickier for period...

soul review - roy williams marvin gaye drama...

Royal and Derngate,NorthamptonThe singer’s life and death are recast as a Greek tragedy in a play...

iliad review - full of sound and furniture

The Ffwrnes,LlanelliScreens, tyres, or a wandering audience and hundreds of plastic chairs besiege...

the rolling stone review - urgent drama about...

Orange Tree,LondonThe impact on one Ugandan family of the country’s homophobic legislation is a...

leave to remain review - spirited gay marriage...

Lyric Hammersmith,LondonIn Okereke and Matt Jones’s play, directed by Robby Graham, or the...

a streetcar named desire review - maxine peake...

Royal Exchange,ManchesterMaxine Peakes creative partnership with the Royal Exchange hits another...

no s knife review - a marathon and a triumph

Old Vic,London[br]Lisa Dwan’s adaptation of Beckett’s 13 short prose pieces is a feat of memory,...

dusty review - dire, perfunctory tribute to the...

Charing Cross theatre,LondonThis jukebox musical is a clumsy, opportunist show with despicable wigs,...

hamlet review - benedict cumberbatch imprisoned in...

Barbican,LondonCumberbatch has a gift for suggesting Hamlet’s fundamental decency, but visual...

he takes her by the hand … review - desire and...

Opera House,WuppertalPina Bausch merges the domestic and dream worlds in a gloomy but playful...

beauty and the beast review - fairytale gets a...

Polka,LondonThis retelling is neatly done, with wonderful set design and acute observations of a...

eleanor bron: i didnt want to be like other little...

She satirised the 60s alongside Peter Cook and appeared onscreen in classics from Alfie to Women in...

richard eyre: why ibsen is the godfather of bad...

Written from bitter experience,Ibsen’s Little Eyolf is a bleak and brutal exploration of marital...

stig of the dump review - joyfully scrappy revival...

Grosvenor Park theatre,Chester Clive King’s classic tale of a boy’s friendship with a mysterious...

goosebumps alive review - as immersive as a puddle

The Vaults,LondonThis idle, unimaginative stage version of RL Stine’s creepy children’s stories...

bush theatre boss madani younis: i want to...

As London’s Bush theatre prepares for a grand reopening,its artistic director Madani Younis...

you never can tell review - shaws bumpy farce as...

Abbey theatre,DublinGeorge Bernard Shaw’s early work rehearses trenchant social commentary...

martin mcdonagh interview: theatre is never going...

His Irish plays and punk spirit made him the most talked-approximately dramatist of his generation....

half a sixpence review - slick musical update...

Chichester Festival theatreJulian Fellowes and Cameron Mackintoshs reworking of HG Wells has the...

nina sosanya: i was always a minority - even in my...

As she prepares to seem in the Young Chekhov trilogy,the star of Last Tango in Halifax and W1A talks...

cuttin it review - streetwise drama evolves into...

Young Vic,LondonTwo outwardly confident school friends share a secret in Charlene James’s drama...

the caretaker review - pinter given renewed zest...

Old Vic,London[br]Following the current trend of not treating Harold Pinter with pause-ridden...

the mother review - gina mckee stuns in poignant...

Tricycle,LondonMcKee gives a first-rate performance in Florian Zeller’s play approximately a woman...

why necessity is the mother of inventive theatre

A lack of resources can spur theatre companies on to greater creativity and engagement with...

from xs churchill to xl shakespeare: sizing up...

Recent openings present theatregoers with a choice between interval-free one-acters such as Here We...

why a dolls house by henrik ibsen is more relevant...

Three major productions in just over a year,one to be revived for the moment time next week why is...

labour of love review - the left does the splits,...

Noël Coward theatre,LondonJames Graham’s unique play, starring Martin Freeman as a Blairite MP...

the dresser review - stott and shearsmith are...

Duke of York’s,LondonKen Stott and Reece Shearsmith go to town in a very funny revival of Ronald...

the brokenbeat collective review - teen dramas...

Stratford Circus,London[br]Part gig and part theatre, this clever show explores young people’s...

theatre director s magic wand turns sleeping...

Bristol venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) Vic show is latest theatrical production...

the intelligent homosexuals guide to capitalism...

Hampstead theatre,LondonDavid Calder plays a communist longshoreman with a death wish and Tamsin...

vassa zheleznova review - liverpool dock strike is...

Southwark Playhouse,LondonAn updating of Gorky’s play loses the moral ambiguity surrounding its...

war review - complex play prompts the question:...

Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center,unusual York[br]Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest is his normal...

the flick: annie bakers play about cinema is...

Baker’s heartbreaking Pulitzer-winner,is set in a doomed picturehouse but it’s really about how...

comeback special: the elvis impersonation thats...

For his fresh theatre explain,Greg Wohead plays the King at his peak – only there’s no quiff and...

a streetcar named desire review - derailed by...

Curve theatre,Leicester Tennessee Williams’s drama of faded dreams is told with a youthful cast,...

monica dolan: a really useful quality to have as...

The actor on her unique role in Plaques and Tangles,in which she plays a woman who discovers she has...

measure for measure review - a 21st century vision...

Young Vic,LondonA snappily and furious staging of one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays retains a...

sophocles and awe: the director hitting war vets...

Bryan Doerries is using Euripedes and Sophocles to help soldiers,generals and drone pilots deal with...

needles and opium review - miles davis, jean...

Barbican,LondonRobert Lepage’s wry and haunting 1991 piece approximately various brands of...

fany review - nurses jolly japes and the stench of...

Arts theatre,London The wartime actions of an all-female volunteer corps fuel this spirited Women in...

do strong female roles in theatre make audiences...

Vicky Featherstone,director of London’s Royal Court theatre, has said audiences are less at ease...

song from far away review - anguish offset by...

Young Vic,LondonEelco Smits performs much of the note naked a risk that pays off in a chamber piece...

saint joan review - shaws heroine battles against...

Lyric theatre,BelfastLisa Dwyer Hogg’s crop-haired Joan is an unshakeable believer raging within a...

the shepherds life review - gentle farming wisdom...

Theatre By the Lake,KeswickWith theatrical sophistication and some delightful puppets, a community...

fanny ardant: i suffer profound despair - i see...

Fresh from directing Gérard Depardieu in the role of Stalin,the French star is now staging...

all genius all idiot review - messy, gender...

Jacksons Lane,LondonSvalbard’s acrobatic exploration of relationships and identity has flashes of...

artists cant survive on thin air

Last night,Greg Sinclair and others were awarded £10000 prizes at the Arts Foundation awards. Thats...

eventide review - new play captures the still, sad...

Arcola,LondonBarney Norris’s poetic, character-driven portrait of a changing Hampshire seizes your...

cyril s success booby s bay review - pint sized...

Finborough,LondonHJ Byron’s 1868 play sparkles with wit, while Henry Darke delivers a timely...

the hotel cerise review - bonnie greers...

Theatre Royal Stratford East,LondonGreer’s play adds modern politics to Chekhov’s The Cherry...

father comes home from the wars review - epic...

Royal Court,LondonSuzan Lori-Parks’s ambitious trilogy marries black history to a classical...

breakfast at tiffanys review - pixie lott sparkles...

Theatre Royal Haymarket,London [br]The pop singer brings verve and musicality to the glamorous...

the plough and the stars review - tenement tragedy...

Lyttelton,LondonThe women are exceptionally strong in this production of O’Casey’s great Easter...

unreachable review - matt smith acts up

Royal Court,London… but Jonjo O’Neill steals the indicate in Anthony Neilson’s hilarious...

kiss me quickstep review - sequins and secrets in...

novel Vic,Newcastle-under-LymeAmanda Whittington doesn’t put a foot wrong with this warm-hearted...

the iranian feast review - charming show about the...

Farnham MaltingsAudience participation is a key ingredient of this touring regional theatre piece...

uncle vanya review - dylan, doom and desire in a...

Almeida,London Its setting in rural England is problematic, but Robert Icke’s modernised version...

daisy haggard: if i had botox, my career would be...

Her career depends on her ‘wiggly’ face and her most memorable TV character was built on a...

pauline mclynn: theres a mrs doyle everywhere

EastEnders,Shameless, Shakespeare: she’s done the lot. But it’s her tea-foisting role in Father...

unity gave strength to warren mitchell | letters...

Philip Purser,in his obituary of Warren Mitchell (16 November), surprisingly made no mention of...

irish theatre abounds with brilliant women -...

The Abbey will commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising with work by nine men and one...

daniel evans: i am quite unashamedly a populist....

Chichester Festival theatre’s artistic director on his Welsh childhood,gender balance – and...

picnic at hanging rock review - mesmerising...

Barbican,LondonThe myth approximately a group of schoolgirls who go lost on Valentine’s Day is...

the red barn review - david hare turns simenons...

Lyttelton,LondonHare’s adaptation of 1968 novel La Main features subtle performances from sign...

merch yr eog merc h an eog review - a salmon man s...

Aberystwyth Arts Centre,AberystwythThis Welsh/Breton co-production has a fine cast but suffers from...

the railway children review - justin fletcher...

King’s Cross theatre,LondonThe CBeebies favourite has been cast as Mr Perks in this imaginative...

new writing is a risk but its one theatres must...

Diversity is key to ensuring a new generation shape theatres future. But endless development isn’t...

uncle vanya review - doom, desire and echoes of...

Almeida,London Its setting in rural England is problematic, but Robert Icke’s modernised version...

noma dumezweni: i m starting to believe in the...

The actor recently stepped into Penny Skinner’s play Linda when Kim Cattrall was forced to cancel....

little eyolf review - richard eyres shockingly...

Almeida,London A striking production, starring Lydia Leonard, or vividly captures what Henry James...

lines review - a baptism of fire in the barracks

The Yard,London Pamela Carter’s thrilling drama follows the basic training of a bunch of army...

oedipus review - greeks behaving badly in a...

Abbey theatre,DublinWayne Jordan’s production unfolds in a frightened village with a flawed...

kim cattrall and marianne elliott on sex, age and...

For Tennessee Williams's troubling play about a fading film star and her gigolo,the star of Sex...

memoirs of an asian football casual: hooliganism...

He dressed smart,carried a knife and wound up in jail. As his life story hits the stage, Riaz Khan...

susannah clapp s best theatre of 2017

Hot-off-the-press plays thrust the personal and the political centre stage,while Bob Dylan had a...

network review - bryan cranston creates studio...

Lyttelton,LondonCranston is compelling as the TV anchorman-gone-rogue in Ivo Van Hove and Lee...

oil review - scorchingly ambitious with plenty of...

Almeida,London[br]Anne-Marie Duff time travels from 1800s Cornwall to 70s Libya in Ella Hickson’s...

the two gentleman of verona review - 60s update...

Everyman,LiverpoolShakespeare’s early satire on romance gains itsy-bitsy from being transported...

one night in miami review - muhammad ali, sam...

Donmar Warehouse,LondonThe acting is outstanding and the issues are timely in Kwame Kwei-Armah’s...

good canary review - malkovich makes addiction...

Rose theatre,Kingston upon ThamesJohn Malkovich’s immaculately staged version of Zach Helm’s...

the merchant of venice review - a barometer for...

Lincoln Center festival,unusual YorkThough the production is traditional, with Jonathan Pryce as...

the flick review - echoes of racine in a riveting...

Dorfman theatre,London Astonishing fresh York hit goes behind the scenes at a cinema to expose the...

john gunter obituary

Set designer behind the see of many memorable theatre and opera productionsJohn Gunter,who has died...

long days journey into night review - jeremy irons...

Bristol former VicRichard Eyre rushes through Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece but gets to the heart...

the vanishing man review - disappearing act...

The Vaults,LondonThis cheeky but unexpectedly moving indicate takes its cue from the astonishing...

the pianist of willesden lane review - tribute to...

St James,LondonMona Golabek’s original solo indicate tells of her mother’s steadfast desire to...

fear and misery of the third reich review -...

Union theatre,London[br]Bertolt Brecht is often thought to be preachy and simplistic, but these...

the winter s tale; harlequinade; all on her own...

Garrick theatre,LondonKenneth Branagh is tremendous in a magical The Winter’s Tale, though Judi...

theatre thats a breath of fresh air: the force of...

Everyone should hold access to tall-quality artistic experiences,regardless of location. The Touring...

spirals caroline proust: cast me as anyone but a...

The star of France’s premier crime drama talks approximately appearing in Ivo van Hove’s bold...

recipe for disaster: whats behind the rise of 50s...

Fetishised nostalgia for a bygone era of cosy domesticity and bake-offs is dangerous,say the team...

the way of the world review - sparkling...

Donmar Warehouse,LondonJames Macdonald’s revival offers clarity and hilarity, with Haydn Gwynne on...

votes for women review - political awakening...

recent Vic theatre,Newcastle-under-LymeThere are shades of Shaw in this rare revival of Elizabeth...

donegal review - frank mcguinnesss ballad for a...

Abbey theatre,DublinMusician Jackie returns to his manipulative kin in Ireland, but a terrific cast...

the greater game review - glaring miss in front of...

Southwark Playhouse,LondonThe memoir of players from Clapton Orient who joined the ‘football...

the rivals review - made in chelsea meets bewigged...

Bristol primitive VicDirector Dominic Hill boldly places a brattish,spoilt teenager at the heart of...

the roundabout review - stylish return for early...

Park theatre,LondonJB Priestley never reconciled the comic and serious elements in this 1931 play,...

i heart catherine pistachio review - wild two man...

The Yard,London[br]Encounter’s bad-taste comedy is weird, macabre and totally over the top but...

romeo and juliet review - branagh gives tragedy a...

Garrick theatre,LondonLily James’s Juliet has a boozy balcony scene, Richard Madden’s Romeo...

welcome home, captain fox! review - a riot of...

Donmar Warehouse,LondonJean Anouilhs wartime tale of mistaken identity is given a witty, colourful...

gallows humour - simon armitage on his comedy...

How does the fate of a student executed in 1697 fuel the freedom of speech debate nowadays? Simon...

4000 days review - alistair mcgowan stars in...

Park theatre,LondonA coma patient’s mother and lover perform a primal tug of war for his soul in a...

harriet walter on antony and cleopatra: you have...

In a modern series to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares death,leading actors, directors,...

listen closely with both eyes: the spellbinding...

Peter Brook calls him a ‘superb artisan’ and his classic Cet Enfant has been celebrated for its...

perfume seller wins bruntwood prize for play about...

Katherine Soper awarded £16000 and residency at Royal Exchange for ‘first proper play’ about...

medea review - domestic drama seen through...

Gate,LondonKate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks’s radical update of Euripides’ tragedy shows...

tomcat review - paternal love lends heart to a...

Southwark Playhouse,London The tender bond between a girl and her carer illuminates the debate about...

the gin game review - james earl jones and cicely...

Golden Theater,New YorkDL Coburn’s play about a cantankerous (irritating, difficult) ageing duo is...

with rape centre stage, theatregoers can no longer...

One commentator has suggested that productions such as Nirbhaya present rape as entertainment. But...

the taming of the shrew: this is not a woman being...

An exercise in misogyny – or a love epic approximately a man liberating a woman? As the RSC stages...

under the umbrella review - a desperate search in...

Belgrade theatre,Coventry Amy Ng’s family drama has the seeds of a great story, but is undone by...

prasanna puwanarajah: i thought planet acting...

He used to rep cast as either a doctor or a terrorist. Now Prasanna Puwanarajah is on stage at the...

the last ship review - sting crafts a stirring...

Northern Stage,NewcastleWith rousing anthems and purposeful politics, this tale of Thatcher-era...

huppert and irons are theatrical dynamite in...

Honoured at a ceremony in Rome,the stars gave a supreme version of Ashes to Ashes – after a rather...

a christmas carol review - dark, dreamlike...

Windsor CastleMarley’s ghost narrates a nightmarish account of Scrooge’s transformation in the...

grain in the blood review - folk morality thriller...

Tron,Glasgow Rob Drummond harvests unnerving humour as well as tension from a rural family torn by...

the boys in the band review - mark gatiss and fine...

Park,LondonRadical half a century ago, Mart Crowley’s portrait of Manhattan’s gay scene can seem...

the inn at lydda review - christ is risen for a...

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,London This imagined encounter between Jesus and a crazed Roman emperor is...

they drink it in the congo review - rumba dancing...

Almeida,LondonAdam Brace’s ambitious show addresses the paradox of celebrating a country’s...

always orange review - taut terrorism drama about...

The Other space,Stratford-upon-AvonPages descend from the sky in Fraser Grace’s passionate play...

late night review - europes in meltdown, but the...

The Pit,LondonA shattered ballroom is the setting for Greek company Blitz’s apocalyptic vision of...

a cast of household names: the taming of the shrew...

Claire Marshall of Forced Entertainment on her own tabletop version of Shakespeare’s play,in which...

poppy george review - cross dressing postwar drama...

Watford Palace theatreDiane Samuels’s play,set in an East halt tailor’s, about four characters...

the encounter review - simon mcburneys head trip...

Barbican,LondonInspired by US photographer Loren McIntyre’s experiences with Brazilian rainforest...

linda review - noma dumezweni is a knockout

Royal Court,LondonPenelope Skinner’s play approximately the invisibility of older women is fierce...

first love is the revolution review - romeo and...

Soho theatre,LondonRita Kalnejais’s startling, very funny interspecies romance features a grieving...

alex hassell: of course you hope people will say...

An acclaimed Henry V at the RSC,Alex Hassell describes how his own theatre company has influenced...

gaslight review - tara fitzgerald impresses in...

Royal & Derngate,NorthamptonPatrick Hamilton’s melodramatic play is superbly acted and grippingly...

theatrical surprises: good for audiences,...

There’s nothing like a demonstrate that takes you out of your consolation zone. whether...

claire skinner: 50 does not look like a woman in...

The Outnumbered star on roles for women,tackling Alzheimer’s in The Father – and playing someone...

man and superman review - ralph fiennes towers as...

Lyttelton,LondonSimon Godwin’s whirling revival of Shaw’s loquacious (talkative) 1903 play...

michael billington on macbeth: profile of greatest...

The destructive nature of unchecked power-lust and political ambition in Shakespeare’s play speaks...

belleville review - james norton and imogen poots...

Donmar Warehouse,LondonAmy Herzog’s tale of uprooted Americans sinks into melodrama but is...

they drink it in the congo review - on the rocky...

Almeida,LondonThe interests of a London ‘awareness-raising festival’ for the Congo and the...

contractions review - mike bartletts horribly...

Crucible,SheffieldHow far would you go to keep your job? An employee finds her sex life is a matter...

emilia galotti review - rare return for lessings...

The Space,LondonGotthold Ephraim Lessing’s European drama, given an admirable revival at this...

luce review - mel giedroyc injects high anxiety...

Southwark Playhouse,LondonIs her adopted war orphan son a terrorist, or just a boy pushing...

the tempest review - dromgooles farewell lets...

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,LondonThe outgoing Globe director’s moving and intelligent take on...

in the night time (before the sun rises) review -...

Gate,LondonNina Segal turns a baby’s nursery into an arena where an anxious couple explore private...

les liaisons dangereuses review - janet mcteer is...

Donmar Warehouse,LondonMcTeer revels in the role of the cruel Marquise in Josie Rourke’s staging,...

macbeth review - pounding electro and hurly burly...

Young Vic,London[br]Anna Maxwell Martin is a cool Lady Macbeth to John Heffernan’s neurotic hero,...

as you like it: was it the worlds first sketch...

Is As You Like It the first ever sketch present? Rosalie Craig and Polly Findlay reveal how they...

the crucible review - a plain production of a...

Bristol Old Vic An evening of tall-quality storytelling,particularly from leads Dean Lennox Kelly...

in the heights review - utterly huggable musical...

King’s Cross theatre,LondonRazor-sharp lyrics and a hugely talented cast make this hip-hop musical...

kilburns tricycle relaunches as kiln theatre with...

Artistic director Indhu Rubasingham explains how,after its £7m facelift, the theatre will give a...

power has to be grasped: british theatre is...

Class is often absent from discussions approximately diversity in theatre but it remains a barrier...

musty or momentous? three forgotten hits are back...

scarce revivals of plays by Israel Zangwill,Jerome K Jerome and JM Barrie give lie to the notion...

a christmas carol review - rhys ifans shaggy...

Old Vic,London Jack Thorne’s superb retelling mines the ghosts of Scrooge’s past in a timely...

henry i leads the charge to crown reading as a...

A new play approximately the 12th-century monarch is at the heart of plans to raise the artistic...

three sisters review - uneasy troubles overshadow...

Lyric theatre,Belfast Lucy Caldwell freights her well-observed Chekhov adaptation with the tensions...

hightide festival review - taut trios tackle love...

Aldeburgh,SuffolkTwo short fresh plays skilfully compress stories of cultural power in Boko...

romeo and juliet review - branagh s star crossed...

Garrick,LondonLily James and Richard Madden certainly leer the part, but are doomed by their...

thon man moliere review - lochheads lurid...

Royal Lyceum,Edinburgh[br]Scandalous affairs and royal tiffs abound in this excellently acted,...

doctor faustus review - off with your kit...

Duke of York’s,London The Game of Thrones actor gives us a sense of the scholar’s flailing...

boy review - see the city in a different light

Almeida,LondonLeo Butler’s fine modern play brings teeming London on to the stage, with assist...

international waters review - the elite become...

Tron,GlasgowA banker’s wife, a journalist, or a singer and a civil servant secure the final boat...

michael white obituary

Theatrical impresario and film producer behind The Rocky Horror Show,Oh! Calcutta! and Monty Python...

hobsons choice review - martin shaw is brighouses...

Theatre Royal,BathThis sly portrait of a cobbler and his course-conscious daughters is shown to be...

cleansed review - katie mitchell plunges us into...

Dorfman,LondonLove is tested to its limits in a series of cruel experiments, in which the cumulative...

david hare: how i learned to love adaptation

Ibsen wanted his plays to be continually updated after his death. As his new version of The Master...

pay to play: the problem with theatres auctioning...

The cast of King Charles III recently held an Equity assembly about whether to share the stage with...

the table of delights review - kids food show is...

Print Room at the Coronet,LondonTheatre Damfino’s sketchy exploration of how food gets on our...

keith michell obituary

Actor and theatre director best known for his many portrayals of Henry VIIIRegally tall and...

olivia williams: ive never been cast as a silly...

Banned in 1907,but still sharply topical, a new production of Harley Granville Barker’s play Waste...

arthur miller: my legacy? some good parts for...

In this extract from Mel Gussow’s book Conversations with Miller,the great American playwright...

the observer view on greek drama | observer...

For radical feminism,look no further than the ancientsThe plethora (excess, overabundance), to...

dinner with saddam review - can dictators be...

Menier Chocolate Factory,LondonSteven Berkoff plays the Iraqi dictator with virtuosic menace in...

f*ck the polar bears review - drilling into the...

Bush,London[br]Tanya Ronder’s play probes the clash between corporate career and private...

the father five star review - a savagely honest...

Ustinov,BathFlorian Zeller’s Molière award-winning play, starring Lia Williams and Kenneth...

othello as an out lesbian: why golda rosheuvels...

The actor is set to play Shakespeare’s army commander as a gay woman in Gemma Bodinetz’s new...

dont screw it up! artistic directors on the perils...

Rupert Goold was left an out-of-date bottle of cassis. Josie Rourke received wisdom – and a...

frozen review - suranne jones is riveting as...

Theatre Royal Haymarket,London The performances match the intensity of the writing in Bryony...

the almighty sometimes: the drama that asks how...

In her prizewinning play,Kendall Feaver charts the relationship between a young woman with mental...

christmas eve review - fizzling thriller feels...

Ustinov studio,BathPatrick Baladi and Niamh Cusack impress in Daniel Kehlmann’s two-hander...

sleuth review - few thrills to be had in shaffers...

West Yorkshire Playhouse,LeedsAnthony Shaffer’s meta-thriller is not so much an “ultimate game...

the libertine review - dominic cooper is riveting...

Theatre Royal Haymarket,LondonCooper commands the stage as the Restoration rebel John Wilmot in...

bitches review - bola agbaje reveals the private...

Finborough,LondonThe award-winning playwright uses YouTube as a medium to explore body anxiety and...

a view from islington north review - satirical...

Arts theatre,LondonGeorge Osborne becomes a sex slave in a deadly piece by David Hare alongside...

leaf by niggle review - tolkiens lord of small...

Tron,GlasgowThe Hobbit author escaped Middle Earth to write a fairy tale approximately an amateur...

stowaway review - lives collide in analogues...

Shoreditch Town corridor,LondonA corpse falling from the sky triggers a fragmented series of stories...

the village hall: home to bridge clubs, bingo and...

Staging work in rural community spaces lets artists forge a deeper connection with audiences and the...

i see you review - horror and heartbreak in the...

Royal Court Upstairs,LondonPlaywright Mongiwekhaya’s post-apartheid tale of erased histories and...

king john played by a potato masher? its...

Forced Entertainment’s series of table-top plays performed with household items is in a noteworthy...

nightwatchers review - secrets and shadows at the...

Tower of LondonA solo headphones note draws subtle parallels between the dirty tricks of the...

mr poppers penguins review - retro charm and...

The Lowry,SalfordPins and Needles, who admirably adapted Raymond Briggs, or return with a musical...

letter: robert loggia gave a sexually charged...

The riveting and sexually charged performance by Robert Loggia as Solyony in the Actors Studio...

the light princess review - deliciously silly...

Tobacco Factory,BristolThe messiness is part of the joy in this deliberately shambolic retract on...

the homecoming review - startling insights...

Trafalgar Studios,LondonAn unexpected family reunion retains its power to shock and haunt in Jamie...

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