Jane Edwardes in the West End ★★★☆☆ 22 October 2026 Actor and playwright Danny Lee Wynter has written a coming-of-age ...

The Orange Tree works almost on a repertory basis, and charismatic actors from other productions sat in the chancel as ...

John Murphy in North East England ★★★★☆ 18 October 2026 Last month saw the debut of Sheffield Theatres’ new Shakespeare ...

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank ★★★☆☆ 18 October 2026 Imagine that you are a middle-aged woman, standing on a ...

David Wootton in East London ★★★★☆ 16 October 2026 The political theorist Hannah Arendt is probably best remembered for the ...

Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★★☆ 16 October 2026 Ever since Anton Chekhov’s final play The Cherry Orchard was ...

Neil Dowden in West London ★★★★☆ 11 October 2026 Tim Crouch has performed his ground-breaking play An Oak Tree in ...

David Wootton in the West End ★★★★☆ 10 October 2026 For long a powerful element of the German imagination, the ...

This play is not going where you expect. Watch for the incongruities! It’s a taut roller coaster that takes us through the dark web, unspeakable fetishes, and the difficult choices of contemporary ...

Patrick Hamilton is equally remembered as a novelist and a playwright, though his most famous works in those two fields are very different from each other. The plays Rope (1929) and Gas Light (1938) ...

Stefano Massini’s epic three-act play The Lehman Trilogy adapted by Ben Power has been a big hit since first being staged at the National Theatre in 2018. Winner of five Tony Awards on Broadway, it ...