Partially Obstructed View

The more I think about Ink , the more overtly it seems like a take on Doctor Faustus . James Graham’s latest play – his first of three pre...

Last year the Finborough’s search for forgotten hits of the past found Scottish playwright James Bridie, whose black comedy Dr Angelus pr...

Billed as international event theatre and certainly designed as such, Ferdinand von Schirach's Terror  has played over 1000 performanc...

I had a feeling that Daniel Evans taking over as Artistic Director of Chichester's theatres would make me break my previous rule of no...

Tristan & Yseult was one of the shows that catapulted Kneehigh from Westcountry touring company to major name in UK theatre, and as E...

Studs Terkel has been one of America’s favourite radio hosts and journalists since 1945, and is known especially for his interviews with r...

It’s nine years, almost to the day, since I saw the Royal Court’s original production of Marius von Mayenburg’s The Ugly One , and it’s a ...

If my way home from the theatre is by bus, which includes trips back from the National, even if the show finished quite late chances are t...

It's not the subtlest form of flirtation but if you ask a lady nicely she might get her cock out for you - although you might have to ...

Could I have picked a more appropriately-titled show to see on this election night than Bat out of Hell ? When Colin and Harriet Loaf’s ...

My concerted efforts in the last couple of years to avoid booking for shows I’m not likely to enjoy have been reasonably successful. Faili...

In Matt Parvin’s first full-length play Jam , Bella Soroush (Jasmine Hyde) is a teacher at one of the high schools in a rural part of the ...

DISCLAIMER: Drama school productions are technically amateur productions, but I try to review them like anything else as the cast will be ho...

Continuing Drew McOnie's inexorable rise to challenge Matthew Bourne as Britain's most famous choreographer, and after his dances ...

Playwright Gary Owen is making a niche for himself as the very disturbing voice of a dispossessed underclass, as well as being, presumably...

Previously, on Angels in America ... I can joke but while I may have seen the two parts of Angels in America a week apart, Phill, who c...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an African-American playwright who got tired of everyone assuuming that his plays, regardless of their actual su...

When the Old Vic announced that Jack Thorne would be writing an adaptation of Woyzeck  and John Boyega would star I did wonder if the comb...

Richard Twyman takes over as Artistic Director of ETT with a production of Othello  whose stripped-back nature points to the restrictions ...

For the second year in a row London's hottest theatre ticket, with reviews to match the level of anticipation, is an epic play in two ...