Reviews

The first crime uncovered in Witness for the Prosecution is that this amazing space, the glorious council chamber of the LCC then GLC at County Hall has not been pressed into service for site specific theatre...

Rising playwright Chris Thompson had an intense debut with Carthage at the Finborough Theatre, written from extensive personal experience as a social worker in the young offenders programme. Also...

They’re all at it. Michael Grandage at the Duke of York’s, Jamie Lloyd at Trafalgar Studios – it’s not enough to produce a play any more, nowadays you have to have a thematic ‘season’ with the same...

Even as a kid I loved election nights, watching the results tot up on television, or when my parents were involved in local politics going with them to ‘the count’ and in my own right I’m not sure which...

No 'turn' unstoned?  The fourteen young performers in Hair certainly give a credible impression of being out of their skulls on psychedelic substances while still managing to deliver some sharply-focused...

It has been an undeniably difficult year for the ENO - financial problems, a change of chief executive and the perceived ignominy of having to accommodate the Metallica t-shirts and ripped jeans of the Bat out...

We should never be afraid to attack sacred cows. And when sacred cows are also cash cows we should never be afraid to kick them in their milky udders and demand to know how our National Theatre made such a...

Filth, farce and absurdism are individually difficult to pull off so combining all three in a ripely uncensored 50th anniversary version of Joe Orton's Loot is high risk, but when it works it's excellent....

Jordan Tannahill’s taut, 75 minute darkly comic real-life social drama Late Company draws two Toronto couples into God of Carnage country as they attempt to broker closure over the suicide of Joel, bullied...

The old Leicester car-park corpse is back with a vengeance. Antic Disposition’s RayBan-and-head-mike-modernised Richard III contrasts the glorious 12th century setting of Temple Church, with a terrific crash...