The public are currently reeling with secrets, lies and duplicity being played out by our politicians who appear two-faced and of two minds in the Brexit debate. Ross
August Wilson’s incomparable Pittsburgh Cycle, his ten part historical opus as seen through the eyes of African-Americans, reached the incendiary 1960s with his Pulitzer-nominated Two Trains Running. The
John Osborne wrote The Entertainer in 1957 when Britain was a country in crisis and its people were embittered, disillusioned and tired. There can’t be a better time
The Weatherman, Eugene O’Hare’s full-length debut play opens with brief sunny spells but it’s clear that the forecast is for a stormy and changeable production. It premiered last
There’s probably not many people left alive that remember the controversial coast to coast US tour of Othello from 1944. It was remarkable for two reasons. Singer and
Tennessee Williams knew how to write about society’s underbelly. In The Night of the Iguana, which opened last night in the West End, he throws together a disparate
Peter Shaffer’s shocking, disturbing and provocative thriller, Equus, galloped back into the West End this week with an electrifying revival from Ned Bennett. The English Touring Theatre and
The stage adaptation of Captain Corellis’ Mandolin, Louis De Bernières’ award-winning book about love in the war-torn Island of Cephalonia, has come to London’s West End after a
We might think that the sex-for-favours and #MeToo scandal is a modern phenomenon. But Shakespeare had exposed the depraved trade-off more than 400 years ago in Measure for
The ‘technical difficulties’ that unexpectedly halted the opening night of Noises Off at the Lyric Hammersmith brought the house down. They couldn’t have been funnier than if they’d
