Throughout the past year, more than a thousand students from secondary schools all over the UK have taken part in New Views, the National Theatre’s playwriting programme. Participants worked in ...

Looking at the very en vogue topic of the ‘shallowness and vanity of contemporary celebrity,’ Martin Crimp has updated his ...

The Sabai Pavilion has landed on Shepherd’s Bush Green. That can only mean one thing, The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in ...

Scherenschnitt oder Der Mörder sind Sie, as Shear Madness was originally called, enjoyed a four-decade run in Boston, Massachusetts, ending in 2020 when public health restrictions were being imposed.

It’s over 170 years since La Traviata (“The Fallen Woman”) first graced the London stages and this bold new production explores “society’s treatment of women who refuse it’s roles”. The story follows ...

A mixture of captions (not, on the evening I attended, fully functional or always able to keep up with the cast’s delivery of ...

Rash actions in youth often lead to dire consequences in future. Which is one of the underlying themes of Teresa Deevy's 1937 emotionally-layered play Wife ...

Written by Lucy Prebble, The Effect was met with widespread critical acclaim when it premiered at The National Theatre in 2012. Having unfortunately missed th ...

A brief review of a brief play. For the completely uninitiated, this is Shakespeare, but not one of the thirty-seven plays ...

Chess is renowned in some quarters for being a bit all over the place, both literally and figuratively. Early in Act One, the action is in Merano, Italy – bef ...

A dining table set with four chairs stands centre stage, a candelabra taking pride of place as the audience awaits the ...

Award winning St Paul’s Opera have brought their version of Giuseppe Verdi’s popular opera La Traviata to Clapham with the ...