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 ...

James Graham’s new play The Standard of Living opens with a man in a grey pinstripe suit coming alone to the front of the stage to address us: “What is a good life?” We very soon learn that it is the ...

The title character here is the real-life if mythologized Catarina Eufémia, an agricultural worker in southern Portugal. In 1954, at the age of 26, she was shot dead during a strike by an officer of ...

The continuous action is all set in the living room of a house on the campus of a New England college after a faculty party. Without telling her husband George beforehand, Martha has invited the young ...