Partially Obstructed View

Portrait (orientation) of the artist as a young woman. One of the shows I had a ticket to but had to skip when I was ill last month was ...

It would be unfair to say it left me cold, but the latest American musical to be heralded as the next big thing certainly left me a bit no...

Shakespeare's Globe dip their toe into verbatim theatre, although as befits the venue there's no recent politics or songs about se...

Michelle Terry’s summer season at the Globe was the first time the venue didn’t have an official overall theme for the year, but for her f...

For only the second time so far in his Pinter at the Pinter season, Jamie Lloyds hands the directing reigns to someone else for Pinter Fou...

A definite case of déjà vu walking into the Kiln, as Tom Piper’s perspective set for the musical White Teeth is reminiscent of Robert Jon...

Back in 2014 theatres were falling over themselves to stage seasons built around 100 years from the start of the First World War, but the...

I try to catch the Papatango playwrighting award winner every year, and this year's offering doesn't lack for ambition in its subj...

If there’s a running theme to Pinter Three , the hendecuple* bill that continues Jamie Lloyd’s collection of the playwright’s short writin...

et tu, debbie? ideally, if coming back to the theatre after over a week sick, i’d choose something short and fairly fluffy to ease mysel...

If my theatregoing currently appears to be at something like normal human frequency that's because I've been stuck at home with br...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it...

During Josie Rourke’s tenure the Donald and Margot Warehouse’s Shakespeare productions have tended to confound expectations – whether it b...

Nina Raine returns to the Dorfman, this time also directing her latest play Stories . It’s named after the idea that there are only seven ...

The thing about committing to doing the entire works of Shakespeare with no repetition is that at some point you have to knuckle down and ...

After famously making her mark on the Globe with an innovative use of its budget, Emma Rice was controversially given a large Arts Council...

Across the road from Southwark Playhouse there’s a full-sized billboard ad for the show that’s just opened in the Large proving that, if n...

You never know where the next pop-up theatre is going to materialise (which I guess is why they're called pop-ups,) and there's pa...

Marianne Elliott’s production of Company has been a long time coming – tickets have been on sale for a year and a lot of excitement has b...

The Young Vic gets its first new artistic director in nearly twenty years as Kwame Kwei-Armah debuts in carnival fashion with a show first...