Partially Obstructed View

Not calling this a review mainly because I didn’t see the whole of the National Youth Theatre’s new production of Frankenstein ; I also wo...

Roxana Silbert must be planning on giving her new theatre’s regulars a bit of a fright if her second main-stage show is anything to go by ...

Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs was first seen in London in 2012, and though even then it was obvious that its environmental politics was heartf...

All change for the JKM Award, which for several years has been based in the Young Vic's smallest studio space with productions getting...

Every time someone puts science fiction on stage the reaction seems to be wondering why it's not done more often; perhaps it's the...

The Donald and Margot Warehouse’s association with women’s prisons continues into Michael Longhurst’s regime as Clean Break, the company t...

Actor/writer/comedian Richard Gadd won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2016 for a show that definitely doesn’t sound like the usual fare for...

Of course, Vassa isn’t the original title. The full title is Vassa Matter You? (Hey!) Gotta No Respec’? The last time Mike Bartlett w...

A History of Water in the Middle East sounds like the title of a lecture, and that’s its conceit – and kind of what it is, albeit in an i...

It can’t be the easiest time in history to be a political playwright; the audience could be walking into the theatre at 7:15 ready for an ...

Emma Watson (Grace Molony) was all set for a life of unusual financial independence for a Georgian woman, as the ward and heir to a wealth...

Definitely fitting the bill of a long-awaited show, ten years after The Mountaintop first became a surprise smash (and notwithstanding he...

Sean Foley’s comic instincts have never been infallible (remember Ducktastic ? I certainly don’t, it closed with unseemly haste before I c...

Deconstructing itself as it goes along, Samuel Gallet's Mephisto [A Rhapsody] is based on a novel by Klaus Mann which was banned for ...

Biddle de-dit de-dee, Two Ladies sees the Bridge Theatre return - after a glorious summer diversion into Shakespeare - to its official...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: Groan Ups is having an extended preview period and invites the official reviewers in next week. Mischief Theatre...

Probably South Africa’s most famous playwright, Athol Fugard is known for his plays skewering Apartheid; ”Master Harold” …and the Boys is...

Caryl Churchill’s later career has been typified by her enviable ability to make her point incredibly succinctly – her plays tend to be sh...

In a theatrical landscape experimenting excitedly with gender-flipped, gender-blind and gender-neutral casting, it's good for a compan...

Where musicals in 2019 have been concerned, the smaller ones have been much more likely to strike a chord with me than the big ones so far...