Partially Obstructed View

This year's Twelfth Night productions have leaned extra heavily on the idea of the play as a melancholy one, and while the cliché abou...

Despite an incredibly irritating social media publicity campaign (who were those messages raving about the show months before it opened eve...

If you don't count a couple of false starts in autumn 2020, there's a nice symmetry to my first theatre trip after the third lockdo...

I sometimes wonder, if anyone's still alive and staging theatre in 100 years' time, which plays by current writers will be the one...

After a couple of years closed for major redevelopment the Tricycle Theatre has reopened with a controversial (for reasons that elude me) ...

Its programming is fairly varied but Artistic Director Paul Miller's productions of classics a couple of times a year have become a si...

Bernard Shaw's The Philanderer is set in and around a gentlemen's club with a difference: One that allows in both ladies and gent...

From no Shakespeare at all in its first two winter seasons, Dominic Dromgoole's swansong at the Globe is an all-Shakespeare season in ...

My second (though not my last) Merchant of Venice of 2015 is one of the tent poles of the "Justice and Mercy" theme in this year...

Among the plays the Finborough unearths that haven't been performed for decades, there's the odd one that hasn't been performe...