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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

James Graham’s new play The Standard of Living opens with a man in a grey pinstripe suit coming alone to the front of the stage to address us: “What is a good life?” We very soon learn that it is the ...

A 69-year-old man hunches over a reel-to-reel recorder on his birthday. The machine is playing a tape made by his younger self who in turn has been reflecting on a tape made in early adulthood. Peter ...

The show is given an extra edge at the outset as a member of the audience in the front row is asked to flip a coin to decide which parts are played by Blanchett and Hoss (both wearing black tops and ...

This early romantic comedy has never been as popular as others by Shakespeare, due to its flimsy plot, thin characterization, knotty linguistic jokes and obscure allusions that don’t register with ...