Reviews

Photograph: Mihaela Bodlovic Julia Grogen’s Playfight was one of the shows I had been meaning to catch whilst at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024…

Sophie Cox as Keira: photo Paul Blakemore Soho Theatre in Dean Street is one of London’s most popular theatre and comedy locations with a…

Cast of The Little Prince: photos Robert Piwko OK, so I have to put my hand up here. ‘The Little Prince’ is my favourite…

Photo Credit: Marc Brenner Last night’s performance of The Merchant of Venice (1936) at the Richmond Theatre was a striking and inventive take on…

Matthew Bourne's production of Swan Lake first hit the headlines 30 years ago, ostensibly for using male swans. But over the years and across…

Period dramas can often appear on the surface to be buttoned up and formal. But there's no such thing in Anne-Marie Casey's spirited retelling…

The Cast of Stiletto: photo Johan Persson A short History revision lesson. Back in the 18th Century, women were not allowed on the stage…

Edinburgh is supposed to be the most haunted city in the UK. So what better place to stage Ghost Stories, Jeremy Dyson and Andy…

We may be led to believe that, at 77, David Hayman is on the way out. In his latest TV role, in ITV's Protection,…

A farcical period rom-com based on the 1998 film staring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes: Following the success of his recent play ‘Two gentlemen…

Peter James writes in the programme that the novel came about after a meeting with a police colleague who told him of a real…

A star is born! In an extraordinary showcase of her multiple talents, Josephina Ortiz Lewis left a sell-out audience speechless during her fun-packed debut…

Pic: Annie Kingsnorth and Martin Shaw Set in the first decade of the reign of King Henry the eighth, as he prepares to ‘divorce’…

Collette Guitart (Sophie Scholl) and L-R Danny Whelan (Christopher Probst), Owen Arkrow (Willi Graf), Mark Wilshire (Kurt Huber) and Tobias Turley (Hans Scholl). Photo…

A packed celebrity audience were in attendance at the press opening of the Last Laugh. The production had done so well at the fringe…

The Irish are great storytellers. So when Eugene O'Brien (with a name like that he has to be Irish) wrote a piece which was…

Wow! What a supercalifragilisticexpialidious production this is! After a lifetime of theatregoing I have never seen anything quite as magical. Paul Kieve and Jim…

When the Lyceum created The Shakespeare Exchange with New York-based theatre company Theatre For a New Audience, following Zinnie Harris's highly lauded Macbeth (an…

The ENO’s production of The Pirates of Penzance sails along smoothly in buoyant mood with an enthusiastic cast on board. The set design by…

Scottish playwright Duncan McClean incorporates lots of local references in this mad mash-up loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure. Bristol, where cabin…

Once again the Festival Theatre is doing Scotland proud with the most spectacular pantomime in the land. I never fail to be amazed by…

Tennessee Williams' classic play is as poignant today as it must have been when it was first produced on Broadway nearly 80 years ago.…

Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, and Kenneth Branagh have all made their mark as Hercule Poirot. But the actor best known as Agatha Christie's Belgian…

From London's South Bank to its closing performances in Edinburgh, this ground-breaking dance company has been showcasing a taste of Nigeria's culture around the…