André, the titular character in Florian Zeller's elegant exploration into one man's descent into darkness, The Father, is losing his mind. He doesn't understand what is happening to him and blames his three former caretakers for his…
Linbury theatre, London Bohuslav Martinů’s 1928 work is a strip-lighted nightmare whirlwind, while Harbison’s is highly stylised post-tonal sitcom unfolding around a four-poster bed
Old Vic; Battersea Arts Centre; Bush theatre, London Richard Jones’s supercharged staging of Sophie Treadwell’s 1920s masterpiece hits like a fist; Emma Rice subverts a dark fairytale with circus gaiety; and a young couple unravel…
You’ll never be able to look at a plant in the same way again after a trip to see this hugely entertaining, gloriously bonkers and wonderfully escapist production
You’ll never be able to look at a plant in the same way again after a trip to see this hugely entertaining, gloriously bonkers and wonderfully escapist production
You’ll never be able to look at a plant in the same way again after a trip to see this hugely entertaining, gloriously bonkers and wonderfully escapist production
What goes down when unlikely stories intertwine? Can witches be right, and giants be good? Into the Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim weaves numerous characters from different fairy tales into a single intertwining story. Wish…
Soho theatre, London Phil Burgers made clowning hip after winning the Edinburgh comedy award in 2012. Now older, if not wiser, his new show is a little undercooked, but his skill as a performer is undeniable
Southwark Playhouse, London Adam Scott-Rowley struts, writhes and jiggles his way from ancient Celt to Hieronymus Bosch wretch in this potent cross between physical theatre and performance art
Austin’s Shakespeare geeks — and there are some! — have the opportunity this season to enjoy the equivalent of a Romeo and Juliet cage match at the Curtain Theatre, the city’s virtually unknown gem of a venue, a folie commissioned by…
Marylebone theatre, London Fairytale meets hip-hop in Kevan Allen’s energetic reworking of the classic ballet about a toymaker and his all-too-realistic doll
“Dear Reader…” If you would, allow me but a moment to…Okay, that’s as far as that intro’s going to go. But please do allow me to tell you about Elizabeth Williamson’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre, now playing at…
Walking into the August Wilson Theatre, which has been gutted and impressively transformed into a sexy nightspot called the Kit Kat Club, my immediate reaction was, “Wow. This is cool!” The audience enters, not through the main doors, but…
Imagine a distorted thrust stage, visibly twisted back to the 1930s by the powerful flow of time. The playing space established on the concrete-floored quonset hut of Factory on Fifth is a very large rectangle. Two sides are the upstage…