Partially Obstructed View

More online theatre is being announced all the time to fill in the gap left by the buildings being shut, with the majority of what's c...

With London theatres now closed for the foreseeable future the focus has very quickly shifted to how those of us who spend far too much ti...

The Mikvah Project feels a bit of an unlikely play to get a major revival within a few years of its premiere , when I was interested but ...

I imagine there's a hiatus coming up in my theatregoing and reviewing, thanks to a certain global situation targeting the Baby Boomers...

Seeing two Shakespeare productions in a row isn't that unusual, especially once the summer season kicks off; two Middletons (Thomas, n...

I've had misjudged or unlikely musical adaptations on the brain recently, and not just because of the obvious suspect - announcements...

Part of the Gate Theatre's USP is that every Artistic Director is allowed free rein on how they interpret the venue's remit as an ...

A Number premiered in 2002, a few years after the Dolly the Sheep story and with the possibility and ethics of human cloning still a subj...

It's the film that made a generation of little girls write "crack whore" in their "what I want to be when I grow up...

Is any other country's art as disproportionately about High School as America's? You have to believe that all the angsty teens we...

Given the amount of terrible shows I've seen over the years when the signs really should have been there, regular readers of this blog...

The usual January trend of grim and serious shows has well and truly continued into February this year, but my diary's due to go into ...

Over the years I've come to trust Indhu Rubasingham's judgement, which is the only reason I would book for a play whose blurb comp...

A quick look at a short but sharp show that aims to shine a light on the disproportionate levels of LGBTQ+ homelessness that's often u...

It's been a lacklustre Swan season so while its final production, Juliet Gilkes Romero's The Whip , isn't without flaws I stil...

You can't move without tripping over a production of A Doll's House lately and the Young Vic, whose last production of it feels c...

The Bush's current season opened with a commitment to telling the stories of queer women of colour, a theme that's revisited in th...

The National Theatre's website notes that Death of England opening at the Dorfman makes its co-writer and director Clint Dyer the fir...

After Angels in America was a transatlantic success for the National Theatre twice over, it's no surprise if they're keen to brin...