Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: A KINKY RETELLING, Bread And Roses Theatre
Perhaps the trickiest, most controversial work in Shakespeare’s arsenal, The Taming of the Shrew comes to the Lambeth Fringe in a peculiar rewrite.
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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: DIANA: THE UNTOLD AND UNTRUE STORY, Underbelly Boulevard Soho
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, performed and directed by Linus Karp and Joseph Martin, takes the familiar royal narrative and gleefully sets fire to the history books.
Review: TRU, Starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Menier Chocolate Factory
In 1975, Breakfast at Tiffany’s author Truman Capote became a social pariah overnight, after his public betrayal of the group of New York socialites known as the “Swans”.
Review: RHYTHM RIOT, Sadler's Wells
There is surely no event more certain in the dance calendar than an English National Ballet mixed bill at Sadler’s Wells.
Review: THE URMETAZOAN, Hampstead Theatre
In a rental in Florida, Abigail is helping Alice to pack: the Nobel Prize winner and decorated scientist is leaving Earth to further space research.
Review: TABLE 17, Starring Marisha Wallace, Kiln Theatre
Before Table 17 begins, a voice over the tannoy announces that audience interaction is encouraged, “like in panto”.
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: THE LAST SHIP, Starring Sting, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Plenty of heart in this full-throated condemnation of Mrs Thatcher's industrial policies, but great songs and a great set do not a musical make
Review: CATARINA AND THE BEAUTY OF KILLING FASCISTS, National Theatre
Disturbing and distressing, but a production for our times
Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, The Arts At Marble Arch
Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle, this production comes from Barn Theatre Cirencester where it was first staged in 2022, revived for a summer run and now transfers with its full Barn company before heading off on a national tour.
Review: THE TURN OF THE SCREW, Arcola Theatre
Two young actors bring the eerie to a production that undermines its own tension with a choppy narrative
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: FENCES, Leeds Playhouse
Roy Fearon leads a magniificent cast in Daniel Bailey's epic production
Review: TRISTAN & YSEULT, Theatre Royal Bath
The revival of Emma Rice's exhilarating Tristan & Yseult, with comedy, music, dance, acrobatics and love goes right to the heart.
Review: TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY, Southwark Playhouse, Borough
Patrick Hamilton’s bleak portrait of 1920s London arrives on stage in a new adaptation by Simon Reade, exploring the fragile connections between those searching for love, belonging and something more.
Review: ALCINA, Royal Ballet And Opera
Returning to Covent Garden for the first time since it waltzed off with an Olivier in 2022, Richard Jones’ Alcina is ravishing to look at, a joy to hear and its clever design motifs still stand out from the crowd.
Review: CURRENT/Y, The Coronet Theatre
Some theatre shows defy the very nature of their definition.
Review: THELMA & LOUISE, Young Vic
Thelma & Louise works as a musical and, more importantly, matters as a comment on why these two women made the choices they did.
Review: JILL'S TUPPERWARE PARTY, Underbelly Boulevard Soho
There's an indecently good chance that you will walk out of Jill's Tupperware Party very different to how you came in.
Review: GOLDEN BOY, starring Josh O'Connor, Almeida Theatre
Clifford Odets' 1937 indictment of consumer society gets a big revival, but proves a souless waste of acting talent
Review: DARKLING, Bush Theatre
It’s the mid-80s and India is changing.
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