Jane Edwardes in the West End ★★★☆☆ 22 October 2026 Actor and playwright Danny Lee Wynter has written a coming-of-age ...

The Orange Tree works almost on a repertory basis, and charismatic actors from other productions sat in the chancel as ...

John Murphy in North East England ★★★★☆ 18 October 2026 Last month saw the debut of Sheffield Theatres’ new Shakespeare ...

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 18 October 2026 Imagine that you are a middle-aged woman, standing on a ...

David Wootton in East London ★★★★☆ 16 October 2026 The political theorist Hannah Arendt is probably best remembered for the ...

Neil Dowden in West London ★★★★☆ 11 October 2026 Tim Crouch has performed his ground-breaking play An Oak Tree in ...

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★★☆ 16 October 2026 Ever since Anton Chekhov’s final play The Cherry Orchard was ...

Jean Rogers on the birth of the National Theatre. Actor and activist, Jean Rogers is famed for her long-running role as Dolly Skilbeck in television soap Emmerdale, and, if not quite so widely known ...

The continuous action is all set in the living room of a house on the campus of a New England college after a faculty party. Without telling her husband George beforehand, Martha has invited the young ...

The scene is set before the action actually begins, as members of the Massachusetts Puritan settlement are seen attending to their daily working and domestic tasks as the audience file in. There is an ...

Covid and its aftermath felt like an era shift for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2020, for the first time since 1879, there was no summer season at Stratford-upon-Avon as theatre across the globe ...

Jean Chan’s eye-catching design sets the tone. The stage is dominated by a huge cartoon-like, wooden-slatted sun with its rays spreading out into the audience in the lower galleries, while through a ...