The writer and actor was shocked by the mental health issues in his old neighbourhood, and knew he needed to get it on the page. Next week the play opens in the West End
The cast boast brilliant musical theatre voices but the show is let down by the dialogue
Actor Danny Lee Wynter’s debut play is lively, full of punchy dialogue and quippy one-liners
The landlord of the Waterloo tunnels has advised the leading London live performance festival to find a new home
Loved the TV show? Now see it live in London
Since her breakthrough show in 2018, Frecknall has gone from being virtually unknown to one of theatre’s most in-demand directors
Marjorie Prime offers stimulating ideas and some great acting, but it’s not a great play
This near-flawless revival boasts excellent leads, astonishing choreography and gorgeous costumes
This is low-level entertainment for the undemanding, with brainless characters and unremarkable choreography
Plus reviews of Sheridan Smith in Shirley Valentine, and Women, Beware the Devil
A glorious young cast brings authentic energy to a coming of age tale of female friendship
It’s great to see her back on stage
From musicals to Shakespeare, performances of all stripes are being interrupted by booze-fuelled and up-for-a-party audiences. So is good etiquette a thing of the past? Nick Curtis reports
This reimagining of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 musical is utterly thrilling
One woman, one scene, 100 men, one electrifying 24-hour performance.
Age Is a Feeling became the break-out hit at the world’s largest arts festival
This quietly devastating show feels real, and its unvarnished testimony is horrifically compelling
The shape-shifting audacity of the play makes it exciting to watch, if ultimately baffling
‘It was like being on Stars in Their Eyes’
It’s a Sin’s Callum Scott Howells is intensely watchable in a performance that gives off a low-key Paul Mescal vibe
There are few playwrights doing it better than Graham
The title, over-neat plot and overemphatic acting recall a charming postwar British B-movie
As our second verbatim play taken from the transcripts of the inquiry opens, we find that little has changed. It’s time it did
Dominic Cooke’s staging of the Greek tragedy is gripping
Writer Ava Wong Davies convincingly evokes place and sensation in this monologue that, underneath, is a story about privilege
A packed cast of guest stars are set to be joining the hilarious adaptation
The sheer charisma and vocal power of the leads transcend the more stilted aspects of this hip-hop show about the Pankhursts
Defiantly wedded to Sheffield, this uplifting musical has a universal message about community and gentrification
Plus The Lehman Trilogy, and what do we really think of Titus Andronicus?
The last two decades have been full of extraordinary theatre – it’s a thrilling indication of what’s ahead of us when doors reopen
‘When I get a job it always feels like a tiny miracle has happened’
The story and ideas should be compelling but the arch tone keeps the audience at arms length
