Review: All My Sons
Superb, pitch-perfect production from an amateur theatre renowned for the professionalism of everything from sets to acting.
Genre: Mainstream Theatre 0
Review: After Miss Julie
Provocative but absorbing take on Strindberg’s 1888 masterpiece. Fine cast led by Helen George make much of demob denouements.
Review: Blue/Orange
Thrilling revival of this absorbing still relevant 2000 play about abusing the already-abused in the name of psychiatry.
Review: The Deep Blue Sea
Helen McCrory plumbs the erotic despair of Hester Collyer’s abandoned woman in this absorbing revival of Rattigan’s masterpiece.
Review: Richard III
Whilst Ralph Fiennes reins in his Richard, making his violent misogyny all the more chilling, his demonic fun evaporates. But an exemplary cast, with Vanessa Redgrave light up Goold’s direction in a production that never drags.
Review: Ross
Joseph Fiennes dazzles sotto-voce in his finest theatre performance to date, in this consummate revival of the troubling life of Lawrence of Arabia.
Review: Doctor Faustus
Kit-off Harington stars in this rewritten Marlowe piece, long on sex and violence but short on Marlowe. Intermittently brilliant.
Review: The Flick
Mesmerising exploration of three characters maintaining a failing cinema, heartbreakingly funny, mimetically riveting. One of the Nationals’ very finest new plays under the new regime.
Review: Kenny Morgan
Superb take on Rattigan’s lover’s suicide attempts, that inspired Rattigan’s masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea.
Review: Human Animals
A thrillingly compressed dystopia crossing The Birds, and Caryl Churchill with draconian government opportunism.
Review: A View From Islington North
Intermittently thrilling plays from the urgent left, two premieres and a couple of small gems roughened by the tumble of Westminster and the Corporates that really must be seen - unless you’re Gideon.
Review: Elegy
Starring Barbara Flynn and Zoe Wannamaker, Nick Payne’s new play – a thrilling and devastating probe at our identity - picks up the threads of science, self and mortality from Constellations and The Art of Dying, marking his most ambitious play since the former.
Review: Cuttin’ It
Superb distillation of the costs of FGM to victims and victim-perpetrators, James reaches out to all in this searing two-hander.
Review: Brideshead Revisited
Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Brideshead, the first for the stage dazzles with stagecraft and storyline but something’s lost tail-chasing the detail.
Review: Here All Night
Sam’s all night shiner, Beckett’s Wake and Cabaret. Haunting, funny, unmissable.
Review: The Threepenny Opera
A coming-of-age for Rufus Norris, a wholly credible, cheekily interventionist Threepenny Opera with a few devastating critiques
Review: First Love
Conor Lovett lightens his pitch Becket’s exploration of lust, sexual disgust and the intolerable consequences of generation.
Review: The End
Conor Lovett rivets with a naturalistic pitch in this cut-down stand-up Beckett diminuendo of an ex-inmate’s prospects. More tour de force in a tour de farce of Beckett’s genius.
Review: The Bald Prima Donna
Spirited pacey revival of Ionesco’s first play, with one stand-out performance and superbly idiomatic one. A perfect introduction to the playwright.
Review: Boy
A superbly bleached-out vision of a seventeen-year-old’s prospects on a stunning conveyer-belt set. Not a comfortable but necessary seventy minutes.
Review: An Enemy of the People
Howard Davies directs a fine cast led by Hugh Bonneville in Chichester's generously human revival of the ultimate whistleblowing drama
Review: Broken Glass
Superb revival of Miller's late classic. Jerry Lyne's production is one of NVT's finest.
Review: Glengarry Glenn Ross
Riveting must-see revival of Mamet's breakthrough play at the Rialto directed by Roger Kay
Review: The Caretaker
Timothy Spall leads a strong cast in this magisterial, beautifully-orchestrated revival of Pinter's breakthrough play.
Review: King Lear
Michael Pennington triumphs in his tragedy in this superbly clear King Lear directed by Max Webster. Gavin Fowler’s Edgar rises with him.
Review: Cock
An exploration of sexuality within the 21st century confines of unconfined and ill defined relationships.
Review: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
" wonderful words, masterfully adapted, brilliantly brought to life"
Review: The Hampstead Murder Mystery!
Like 39 Steps, but with more actors. And more scenes. And more steps.
Review: The Andromeda Paradox
X marks the spot. Make space for Tom Neenan's latest journey into the unknown ..
Review: The Element In The Room: A Radioactive Musical Comedy About The Life And Death Of Marie Curie
The very height of (science) experimental theatre. Radium: rah-rah-radical ...
Review: An Oak Tree
From little acorns ... a story of loss, regret .. and the possibilties of roads not taken.
Review: Hard Graft
We are all part of families, with ancestors stretching back generations - giving us our identity
Review: Bloominauschwitz
The central character in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' must write his own story ...
Review: Thirst Of The Salt Mountain
A raw new staging of one of the 20th century's most surreal plays
Review: Stalin’s Daughter
Stalin's daughter has escaped to the West. But has she really broken free?
Review: ODE – Voices of Gallipoli and the First World War
A rehearsed reading of selected writings from the First World War.
Review: Anatole De Latour – The Singing French Detective
Anatole De Latour is one eccentric but talented Interpol detective
Review: A Midsummer Knight’s Dream…What?!
If you are looking for something interesting, look no further
Review: “Just let the wind untie my perfumed hair…”
Tahríríh. Persian. Feminist. Poetess. Activist. Born: 1815. Executed: 1852. Martyr.
Review: Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Live
Suspense, drama and well-timed sound effects—everything you could want from radio drama.
Review: Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany
A gripping story about an American girl growing up in Hitler’s Germany
Review: The Rain That Washes
The transition to black-majority rule in Zimbabwe, seen through the eyes of a teenager.
Review: Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking
The life and discoveries of Einstein. A lecture by the man himself - with music ...
Review: Rock And A Hard place
" a small scale show that fitted perfectly onto the Three In Ten stage"
Review: The Black Cat – The Small World of Aristide Bruant
Paris is the city of lies and spies in this tragic tale of star-crossed lovers.
Review: FOMO: The Fear Of Missing Out
You’re listening to the Zoe Show where we explore Zoe Macdonald’s ‘malaise’ of FOMO, or the Fear Of Missing Out.
Review: La Leçon
A twisted tale of what happens when an innocent student meets a bumbling, yet passionate professor…en français.
Review: Bewitching Macbeth
A deeper look into the psyche of Macbeth through the fusion of dance and text.
Review: The Umbilical Brothers: A KiDs ShoW (Not Suitable for Children)
Don't take your kids - or you will have a lot of explaining to do...
Review: A Brief History of Beer
Take a journey through time and space to learn about this ancient beverage.
Review: Season to Taste
Nine women voice our inner thoughts, fears and hopes over a nine-course meal.
Review: Desperately Seeking the Exit
Things go decidedly downhill when a writer loses creative control of his play on the West End
Review: I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
A powerful story of how a transvestite survived the Nazi and Communist regimes in East Berlin
Review: Raton Laveur
A clever ruse adds extra punch to this dark play about raccoons and the repercussions of sudden violence
Review: The Blue Room by David Hare
Like a teaspoon of honey mixed with vinegar, The Blue Room is for those who like their romance stories more biting than blissful
Review: Miss Representation
Boys will be boys, but girls are still battling to be taken seriously in the media
Review: My One and Only
A comic love triangle turns into an unforgettable dramatic tale of love and obsession
Review: I’m not pale, I’m dead
Life’s too short to go around feeling uncomfortable, but death’s too long to look like shit!
Review: Insomnia Cat Came to Stay
A manic performer tells us all how she can’t sleep in a play that is ironically repetitive and snooze-inducing
Review: One for the Ugly Girls
This show will make you laugh, make you think, and at times, make you recoil in discomfort
Review: Animal Farm
Guy Masterson brings Animal Farm to life in this mesmerising one-man performance
Review: Outland
Alice is pushed to the back of Wonderland as her creator reminds us of the power of dreams ..
