Beware of Pity at the Barbican

In this co-production by Complicite and Schaubühne Berlin, the script is the...

The Pirates of Penzance at the London Coliseum

The English National Opera’s relationship with Gilbert and...

This Must Be the Place at Vault Festival

Brad Birch (recipient of the Royal Court’s 2016 Pinter Commission)...

Killing Time at Park Theatre

Killing Time focuses on moribund retired cellist Hester and her well-meaning...

The Boys in the Band at the Vaudeville Theatre

Mart Crowley’s play about eight gay men (and one confessed...

Rigoletto at the London Coliseum

Jealousy and revenge are the main themes of this moving and dramatic opera by...

The Swarm at Vault Festival

There is something buzzing in the belly of Waterloo station. Bees search for a new...

School Play at Southwark Playhouse

Boldly going where few playwrights have (ever?) gone before, Alex MacKeith...

Secret Cinema presents Moulin Rouge for Valentine’s Day

It is possible to watch a movie in a hot tub, cosied up in a...

Kieran Hodgson: Maestro at Soho Theatre

Not content with moonlighting as Mr Swallow’s assistant in the...

An Englishman, an American and an Indian Walk into a Bar… at the Roundhouse

Vault Festival 2017: An underground Fringe in the heart of London

For those who can’t make the slog to Edinburgh each year,...

Sex with Strangers at Hampstead Theatre

Sex with Strangers is Brooklyn-based playwright Laura Eason’s...

 Salomé at Hoxton Hall

Anastasia Revi’s production evokes the extravagant and grotesque atmosphere of 1930s...

The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre

It’s a pretty good time to be John Tiffany. Days...

The White Devil at Shakespeare’s Globe

The gilded chamber of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at...

The Iron Man at the Unicorn Theatre

Sometimes, especially in the current, utterly depressing climate, audiences...

Ashes at Jacksons Lane 

The relationship between puppet and puppeteer is one of endless possibility. With...

A Play in 24 Hours Phase Five at Theatre Utopia: From concept to performance in a day

Ten must-see theatre shows opening in February 2017

After a fairly slow January the West End really hots up this month, with...

Escaped Alone at the Royal Court Theatre 

In a green and pretty garden, beneath a uniformly blue sky, four...

Fantastic Mr Fox at the Lyric Hammersmith

Like Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory before it, the...

Dirty Great Love Story at the Arts Theatre

With most romcoms, we can forgive a certain number of eye-rolling...

Death Takes a Holiday at Charing Cross Theatre

Maury Yeston’s Off-Broadway hit has finally jumped the...

Us/Them at the National Theatre

How do we process trauma when it happens on an unimaginable, inexplicable...