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 ...

Jean Rogers on the birth of the National Theatre. Actor and activist, Jean Rogers is famed for her long-running role as Dolly Skilbeck in television soap Emmerdale, and, if not quite so widely known ...

Esther specializes in sewing finely embroidered “intimate apparel” – women’s undergarments such as corsets – that are much sought after, with her clients ranging from wealthy white patrons to black ...