Stars are born during this joyous evening in the company of teenage girls discovering #MeToo, The Crucible and adulthood ...

Puppets and humans combine to make a magical adaptation of Roald Dahl's The BFG ...

Musical about forgotten DJ from the 1950s reminds us of the power of rock'n'roll ...

The National Theatre is giving us a rare chance to see Rattigan's Man And Boy, albeit clothed in a thoroughly ...

It’s not Noel Coward’s witticisms that make this production of Fallen Angels the funniest play in London, it’s the physical ...

The new production of Mel Brooks' The Producers is an hilariously offensive five star show but something is missing compared ...

Exceptionally funny cast save dull and dated J B Priestley comedy ...

Bryan Cranston, Paapa Essiedu and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are the perfect leads for Arthur Miller's play. Ivo van Hove and Jan ...

Chetin-Leuner's study of the effect of pornography on a woman's sex and relationships elicits an outstanding performance by Ambika Mod ...

Director Tom Morris has achieved a triumph by keeping the production simple and by casting David Harewood at precisely the ...

Nicola Walker delivers a powerful performance as a mother who refuses to give up hope when her son disappears. Nick ...

Jean Genet’s 1947 play about two murderous maids has been reimagined by Kip Williams. His biting satire on social media ...

How do Olly Alexander as Algernon and Stephen Fry as Lady Bracknell in the West End transfer of the Oscar ...

The original stars of Rebecca Frecknall's production, Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley, have long gone, but Cabaret at the KitKat ...

Modern in language and themes, it's entertaining and has a positive message but was it a mistake to turn Euripides' ...

Simon Stone's version of Ibsen's classic stars Alicia Vikander and Andrew Lincoln in an entertaining, gripping, unique theatre ...

Nicholas Hytner's immersive production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is a great party but it doesn't challenge the audience ...

Samira Wiley (Handmaid's Tale, Orange Is The New Black) stars in Lyn Nottage's Intimate Apparel. The author has won two ...

It's a long play and the revelations come slowly in Rebecca Frecknall's deliberate production but the performances by Ruth Wilson, ...

A stage version of the 1935 Fred and Ginger movie is choreographed by the great Kathleen Marshall and provides this ...

Natalie Dormer shines but Phillip Breen's adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina barely scratches the surface of Tolstoy's great novel ...

Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman excel as a recovering alcoholic and his mentor in a cat and mouse game of ...

Paul Seven Lewis reviews a long but rewarding play about the creative process of making a rock album and its ...

Mother Daughter Clash is Perfect Harmony Garrick Theatre ⭑⭑⭑⭑ What is Mrs Warren’s Profession? Well, she’s a highly successful owner ...

More is revealed than bodies when a grieving woman embarks on a series of casual sexual encounters in this fine ...

Gogol’s classic satires about government corruption becomes a knockabout comedy in the hands of former RSC director Gregory Doran ...

There’s drama, comedy and outstanding in Conor McPherson’s Chekhovian play about crushed dreams ...

TV stars Freema Agyeman and Nick Blood play Beatrice and Benedict in Michael Longhurst's football-themed production of the popular Shakespeare ...

Anna Mackmin's debut play at the Donmar explores the complex relationship between a mother and daughter as it develops over ...

Mike Bartlett's comedy about a menage-a-trois is challenging and uplifting in a production where nothing distracts from the tremendous acting ...

A G MacDonell's 1930s satire about the self-centred, corrupt ruling class has echoes to this day. Paul Seven Lewis reviews ...

Top class acting turns the life of an ordinary woman into an extraordinary stage play based on Annie Ernaux’s book ...

Powerful acting from Anne-Marie Duff as greed tears a family apart in Lillian Hellman's classic play. The excellent cast includes ...

It helps of course that The Devil Wears Prada has a book by Kate Wetherhead, music by Elton John, lyrics ...

Jethro Compton has relocated F Scott Fitzgerald's short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to Cornwall in the 20th ...

Oscar Wilde triumphs despite the National Theatre’s panto-style production, thanks to Ncuti Gatwa, Hugh Skinner and Sharon D Clarke doing ...

I don't know what's more spectacular, the production of Dr Strangelove at the Noel Coward Theatre or Steve Coogan's triumphant ...

Adaptor Nancy Carroll, director Paul Foster, designer Janet Bird and a well chosen cast have cooked up into the comedy ...

Sophocles recognised the nature of the human condition, and director Robert Icke has laid it out again for us in ...

David Oyelowo provides us with a Coriolanus full of power and subtle feelings In the new National Theatre production ...

Generous measures of tension and empathy ★★★★ One of the best things about where I live is that my closest ...

Revival brings fresh life to classic musical ★★★★★ Fiddler On The Roof opened on Broadway in 1964, and became the ...

It's a Mystery why Witness For The Prosecution is a Success. Here are the Clues ★★★ It’s been on since ...

Hello, Dolly! has two redeeming features: it provides the opportunity to put on magnificent chorus numbers and a vehicle for ...

Memory and origins feature in stories of a trip across Europe searching for a lost father and a journey 5000 ...

We’re promised-  sorry, trigger-warned- about racist language, sexual violence, and of course a naked Kit Harington. So, is Slave Play ...

James Graham, of Dear England fame, has written a stage version of Boys From The Blackstuff, the legendary TV series ...

This is a review of a new British musical by Kit Buchan and Jim Barne with the feel of an ...

Ben Whishaw is the star attraction in an ensemble theatre piece in which three actors produce a live film based ...

Sophie Treadwell's 1928 feminist expressionist play about a woman crushed by industrial male-dominated society is given a visceral production at ...

Review of Tom Wentworth's adaptation of Shakespeare's supreme comedy in which it's farce to the fore. James Mack, Hayden Wood ...

Review of Sarah Gordon’s liberty taking, laughter inducing look at the Bronte sisters. Gemma Whelan from Game of Thrones and ...

Michael Sheen gives a titanic performance in the title role in Nye, says Paul Seven Lewis in his review. The ...

The two renowned screen actors Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport return triumphantly to the stage for a Brief Encounter style ...

Review of Rochard Hawley and Chris Bush’s musical Standing At The Sky’s Edge is made in Sheffield but now is ...

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma star in a touring production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth which is visiting London's Dock X ...

Peppa Pig brings home the bacon ★★★ Peppa Pig celebrates her 20th anniversary this year with a new stage show ...

Till The Stars Come Down written by Beth Steel at the National Theatre London is a shocking insight into the ...

Both Daniel Rigby and Katherine Kingsley are a gift to the National Theatre's musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches ...

In Infinite Life, Annie Baker has created five strong characters. Directed by James Macdonald, all the actors do a superlative ...

Alice Birch's version of Lorca's The House Of Bernarda Alba is a devastating dissection of an authoritarian household and the ...

Thanks to playwright Jack Thorne, Sam Mendes ‘ direction and the acting of Mark Gatiss, Johnny Flynn and Tuppence Middleton, ...

Louisa Harland from Derry Girls holds her own on stage with Woody Harrelson and Andy Serkis from Lord Of The ...

Richard Bean, writer of One Man Two Guv’nors, has turned his attention to the challenges of old age in his ...

Alexander Zeldin has written a series of successful theatre plays about ordinary people based on interviews. In The Confessions, he ...

I’ve probably been to and enjoyed more plays at Chichester Festival Theatres than anywhere else except the National Theatre. Unfortunately, ...

Even if you don't normally like fantasy, I urge you to see this 5-star stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman's book ...

It’s the accomplished well-directed cast that makes Headlong's A View From The Bridge worth seeing. As a production, it tries ...

Smack the pony star Doon Mackichan's description of her fight against a toxic male industry and her personal triumphs over ...

Jonny Lee Miller commands the stage at the Almeida Theatre London in A Mirror, a new work by Sam Holcroft ...

Paapa Essiedu stands out in Lucy (Succession) Prebble's intimate play about love, depression and the brain that is somewhat lost ...

It is extraordinary that the small Watermill Theatre in Newbury has been able to achieve what major producers with millions ...

It’s hard to imagine now but in the 1970s, women were rare in the British pop charts and female groups ...

Operation Mincemeat has gone from being a fringe hit to a polished fast-moving West End musical comedy that deserves a ...

The sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein conquers all ★★★★ I arrived at Chichester Festival Theatre with a lot of prejudice ...

Daniel Rigby stars in the funniest play in London (probably) ★★★★ A maniac arrives at a police station in London ...

James Graham has built Dear England around the idea that the football team is a microcosm of the country. Joseph ...

Tim Minchin and Danny Rubin's stage musical version of Groundhog Day starring Andy Karl at the Old Vic in London ...

A musical thriller from a stellar team ★★★★ Theatre has become something of a vampire in recent years, roaming the ...

Brokeback Mountain has been adapted for the stage by Ashley Robinson from a short story by Annie Proulx about a ...

Stephen Sondheim's Assassins is a musical that takes a superficial meander through various would-be Presidential assassins. It's loosely held together ...

The Kiln production of Retrograde by extraordinary new playwright Ryan Calais Cameron features an outstanding performance by rising star Ivanno ...

The National Theatre in London has revived Brian Friel's modern masterpiece Dancing At Lughnasa in a new production directed by ...

Daniel Mays & Marisha Wallace lead an extraordinary theatrical experience ★★★★★ From the moment you walk into the auditorium at ...

She may only have been acting out Willy Russell’s excellent script, but her performance in Shirley Valentine shows what an ...

Visitors, written by Barney Norris about ten years ago, has been revived by The Watermill in Newbury. It is a ...

As a description of child abuse, A Little Life is painful to watch. As a story of the power - ...

Robert Daws charms as the great comic writer ★★★ There's a lot to enjoy in this one-man play about PG ...

Powerful performances from Okonedo & Daniels ★★★★ You may well be familiar with the horror story of Medea. It began ...

Golden Oldies Shine In This Gentle Comedy  ★★★ You’re probably familiar with The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The film of ...

The National Theatre production of The Lehman Trilogy directed by Sam Mendes and designed by Es Devlin has returned to ...

Janet McTeer excels in a dramatic tale of forbidden love by Simon Stone ★★★★ On the whole, I loved Phaedra ...

Emma Corrin from The Crown is mesmerising as Virginia Woolf’s time travelling, gender switching hero in Neil Bartlett’s dramatisation of ...

Like Tammy Faye herself, the musical by Elton John, Jake Shears and James Graham is good but flawed ...

Terry Johnson's new play about 'Swingers' is a mess ★★ It’s hard to describe how disappointed I was by my ...

★★★ Michael Hugo and Suzanne Ahmet in Marvellous Marvellous, the opening production at the West End's newest theatre @sohospace, is ...

★★★★★ Douglas Henshall and Brian Vernel in Mary. Photo: Manuel Harlan This thrilling drama is about the men who surrounded ...

There’s a new magazine for musicals lovers on the newstands its hard to miss with the title Musicals embossed in ...

★★★★   Back in 1953, when Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a play about the late 17th century witch trials ...