Review: THE PIANIST, Park Theatre
While both the film and the autobiography have entered our cultural heritage as testimonies of the Nazi era – the poverty it brought, its violence, its misery – this new rendition inhabits a different realm.
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Review: MARTIN GUERRE, The Old Vic
It’s Les Mis if you squint.
Review: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, starring KayCee Stroh and Harry Judd
Though the originating Disney team doesn’t seem to be involved, the vibe of the film is perfectly maintained.
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: 4.48 PSYCHOSIS, Royal Ballet & Opera
The idea that “art is not a mirror but a hammer” has been attributed to Bertolt Brecht, deployed by Leon Trotsky and could serve as the epitaph for Sarah Kane’s repertoire, not least her final work.
Review: ANGEL'S BONE, London Coliseum
Whether intentionally or not, London’s opera houses have leaned hard into the Halloween season with an unspoken theme of “go bleak or go home”.
Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Starring Mathew Horne, Sheffield Crucible
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night arrives at the Sheffield Crucible in a production directed by Jamie Glover that offers plenty to enjoy.
Review: CADEL: LUNGS ON LEGS, Riverside Studios
Connor Delves delivers a remarkable one man show about a remarkable man
Review: DANCE IS NOT FOR US, Barbican Centre
Cie Omar Rajeh, the Lebanese choreographer and cultural architect has lost a lot - in basic terms his home and personal/professional life in Beirut.
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: SOME WOMAN, Starring Anne-Marie Duff, National Theatre
The National Theatre continue their commitment to new writing with a piece by Helen Edmundson.
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: TOM AT THE FARM, Barbican Theatre
Part Wuthering Heights, part God’s Own Country, this is a familiar tale viewed through an interesting lens.
Review: GHOSTS, Jermyn Street Theatre
Helene Alving is about to inaugurate an orphanage dedicated to the memory of her late husband, an austere, unfaithful, and unpleasant man.
Review: THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Harold Pinter Theatre
Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan lead a starry cast in a play that can't quite locate the fragile centre of the swirl of relationships in rural Russia
Review: MANON, Royal Ballet & Opera
It's impressive to have the same work showing at two companies simultaneously, and such is the case for Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 full-evening work Manon.
Review: THE BANALITY OF EVIL: HANNAH ARENDT, FRANCE, 1940, Arcola Theatre
Doktor Arendt's ideas have never been more needed here than they are right now
Review: HEATED RIVALRY: THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY, Underbelly Soho
Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody is simply hilarious.
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: A BRIEF CASE OF CRAZY, Wilton's Music Hall
Rollicking physical comedy love story – including mime, music, dance and puppets – performed by three young talented performers with great comic timing.
Review: END OF THE WORLD AND HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND, Barbican Theatre
Extraordinary spectacle delivers in Murakami adaptation that doesn't quite land
Review: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION, Royal Ballet & Opera
The Royal Ballet season opens on the main stage with a special programme: A Centenary Celebration.
Critics Praise Gaten Matarazzo And Cast In RENT Revival At The Tom Stoppard Theatre
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.
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