Strategic Love Play's long life continues. After success at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, Miriam Battye's play earned itself a London transfer to the Soho Theatre (twice) before making the leap across...

We review the opening of 1536 at the Almeida Theatre in London

Major productions of Krapp's Last Tape are like buses. Less than a fortnight ago, Samuel Beckett's one-man play opened at the York Theatre Royal starring, directed and designed by Gary Oldman; this we...

How many adaptations of George Orwell's Animal Farm do you need? Last year saw Ian Wooldridge's version tour Bolton, Hull and Derby. Next year sees the return of Robert Icke's with a UK tour and a moo...

Kim's Convenience has enjoyed a longer life than may have been predicted for it. Starting out at Toronto Fringe in 2011, it toured Canada, enjoyed an off-Broadway run and was adapted into a Netflix se...

'It's a great time for nasty men…' Mike Rice says in the opening segment of his hour-long comedy special, recorded at Blackfriars Glasgow in August last year and now free to stream on YouTube. Has it ...

In the debut play by East-Asian writer and performer Chris Fung, a man with questions following a break-up discovers a group who seem to have all the answers. The Society for New Cuisine, directed by ...

Modern readers have been increasingly less forgiving of the sexist and racist slurs that reflect the period in the classic novel Of Mice and Men. There becomes a challenge then in how to portray the s...

Review by Katie Shaw One Day When We Were Young is a brilliant play in three parts about love, loss, hope and nostalgia, written by Nick Payne and directed by James Haddrell. It follows Violet and Leonard, two people who start as lovers, morph into strangers, and age into memories. Starting out at the height of

To say that Laura Lomas has recast Miss Julie for Gen Z is both accurate and reductive. This loose adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 classic play, directed by Headlong's Artistic Director Holly R...

It goes without saying that Shakespeare is ripe for interpretation. Hamlet is a play frequently moulded to fit directors’ visions. My first proper experience of Shakespeare was Michael Sheen’s turn as...

Jim Keaveney reviews the new production of Shakespeare's lesser-performed play

After almost two years, the Bridge Theatre again plays host to an opening night as the continued extensions to the run of Guys and Dolls saw the producing house seek commercial refuse in the success o...

Review by Mark Quinn After a successful run in 2022, The Gap Year is back in the Lyric Theatre for a month. The uplifting comedy follows a trio of sexagenarians, at the point in their lives when death...