As this neatly timed, elegant revival illustrates with uncomfortable clarity, you can take the couple out of ‘The City’, but you can’t take the gnawing unease of modern living out...
Simon Gray’s 1984 play, which explores friendship, compromise and ambition across nearly 20 years within a group of Cambridge arts graduates, is a difficult play to crack as Gray has himself...
This utterly daft, unflaggingly enjoyable musical comedy was originally called ‘Enchanted’ before Disney took its name, however its plot does resemble the Hollywood film. A young...
Last year, Tim Crouch presented his brilliant two-hander, ‘An Oak Tree’, at the Soho Theatre. In it, a father meets the man responsible for his daughter’s death, and an...
The life coach is a pretty obvious comic figure – Will Adamsdale carried off the Perrier Award with his version of one, back in 2004 – but comedian Phill Jupitus makes the ever-helpful...
Alan and Terry have each returned to their dead mother’s tower-block flat to claim it as their own. Terry has brought the mysterious Lilly with him. Wearing hijab with niqab and speaking in a...
In a poetically minded Rasta’s studio in Brixton, ex-rocker Plod (a charismatic David Kennedy) has reunited a punk band who couldn’t play in the first place after a 20-year hiatus. They...
What is it about Nazis and musicals? With ‘Cabaret’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ playing elsewhere, Jonathan Kent’s season at the Haymarket concludes with...
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