Review: OTHELLO, Starring David Harewood and Toby Jones
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Nov 5, 2025
Director Tom Morris has been busy running the Bristol Old Vic, but now returns to the capital to start a five year partnership with Chris Harper Productions to direct Shakespeare plays for the West End. His Othello looks impressive, is well acted, thoughtful and glossy, but lacking in sufficient darkness.
Review Roundup: NOWHERE at Battersea Arts Centre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 7, 2024
See what the critics are saying about Nowhere at Battersea Arts Centre. The production features the star of United 93, The Kite Runner and The Crown, Khalid Abdalla, in his writing debut. Read the reviews!
Review: NOWHERE, Battersea Arts Centre
by Cindy Marcolina - Oct 5, 2024
The world is a dark place. Every day, we seem to edge closer to the start of another global conflict. Nowhere is safe. War and destruction have become steady protagonists on our television screens, to the point where we’re growing increasingly desensitised to violence.
Review: THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
by Debbie Gilpin - Mar 1, 2024
“Sometimes the Devil doth preach.” In a winter season that has arguably gone too light on Shakespeare, it is nonetheless fitting that the final production is a brand new version of John Webster’s bloody tragedy. Dominic Dromgoole’s production opened the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse ten years ago, and now Rachel Bagshaw is on board to direct it on its return to the replica Jacobean theatre.
Review: MACBETH, Shakespeare's Globe
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Aug 3, 2023
“In thunder, lighting or in rain” rarely may have been a more appropriate Shakespearean line for the UK’s current weather. Yet after a stormy day, the skies cleared for opening night of the Globe’s latest production of Macbeth.
Manchester International Festival Announces 2023 Performance Highlights
by Stephi Wild - Mar 14, 2023
Factory International has announced the 2023 edition of Manchester International Festival (MIF) from 29 June to 16 July. Working with partners regionally and across the globe, the wide-ranging programme of original new work by an array of international artists will take place in venues and spaces around the city and at Factory International's much-anticipated new home, which opens its doors for the first time for the Festival, in advance of its official opening in October.