Aliya Al-Hassan
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Review: ILFORD BOY, Donmar Warehouse
Coming-of-age plays are not new, but they vary hugely in quality and impact.
Review: MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL, Starring David Suchet
The Orange Tree's Tom Littler is not afraid of variety.
Review: GANG OF THREE, Richmond Theatre
A battle for the soul of the Labour Party, rival political factions battling for power amid arguments about Europe, all set against an deep economic crisis.
Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Glyndebourne
If you want to bring a little Spanish warmth into your autumn, you could do much worse than head down to Sussex, where Glyndebourne's Autumn Season is now in full swing.
Review: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne first opened its manicured doors with a production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and ninety two years later, the opera begins its fourth Autumn Season.
Review Roundup: What Did The Critics Think Of Gaten Matarazzo in RENT?
Set in New York's East Village, Rent follows a group of young artists, musicians and friends, navigating love, ambition and creativity while trying to build lives on their own terms.
Review: RENT, Starring Gaten Matarazzo, The Tom Stoppard Theatre
It's been a long wait since London last saw Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical rock masterpiece that won four Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer.
Review: THE BROWN SUITE, Richmond Theatre
It's not often that Richmond Theatre plays host to a world premiere: Blacbrik's Nahum McLean and Darius Drooh's first long-form dance production The Brown Suite makes a stylish splash before embarking on a nationwide tour.
Review Roundup: Richard E. Grant & Christine Baranski in HAY FEVER
The eccentric Bliss family – Judith, a recently retired actress, David, a self-absorbed novelist, and their two unconventional children – live in a world where reality slides easily into fiction.
Review: HAY FEVER, Starring Christine Baranski & Richard E. Grant
There is a reason why Noël Coward's comedies are still being revived a century after they were written: his rapid-fire dialogue, brimming with vigour and wit skewered the British class system and created vibrant comedy that still resonates today.
Review Roundup: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, Starring Gillian Anderson & Billy Crudup
The two face off as George and Martha, one of theatre's most notoriously dysfunctional couples in Albee's hilarious and provocative masterpiece.
Interview: 'I Relate To Her Quiet Wisdom': Soprano Mei Gui Zhang On Making Her Glyndebourne Debut as Susanna in Mozart's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
Now in its fourth year, the Glyndebourne Autumn Season is almost upon us.
Review Roundup: James Graham's New Play, THE STANDARD OF LIVING
Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear stars as John Maynard Keynes, the radical economist and member of the influential Bloomsbury Group who became the singular driving force behind arts funding in Britain and built a new and fairer financial model, that ultimately helped reshape the Western World in th
Review: THE STANDARD OF LIVING, Starring Rory Kinnear
James Graham's latest play, The Standard of Living opens with a smartly dressed, well spoken man trying (and failing) to address an audience about his economic theory.
Review: A SMALL AND QUIET LIGHT, Orange Tree Theatre
I suspect like most people, you have never come across the name of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan before.
Review Roundup: Jesse Tyler Ferguson in TRU
Directed by the award-winning Rob Ashford, Tru is now open at the Menier Chocolate Factory, following the production’s New York run earlier this year.
Review Roundup: Sting Stars In THE LAST SHIP
Rooted in his own childhood in the British shipbuilding town of Wallsend, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community of shipbuilders in the North East of England, faced with the closure of their shipyard – the heart of their existence.
Review: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Arches Lane Theatre
250 years after her birth, with another new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice about to land on Netflix and a new film of Sense and Sensibility being released this week, the appetite for Jane Austen seems as ravenous as ever.
Review Roundup: Letitia Wright and Lorraine Toussaint in THE STORY
There’s the truth and then there’s the story.
Guest Post: 'It's Told In A Completely Different Language': Deafinitely Theatre’s Artistic Director, Paula Garfield, On Staging Mike Bartlett's BULL
I first worked with Mike Bartlett’s writing nearly ten years ago, when Deafinitely Theatre adapted Contractions into British Sign Language in 2017.
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