Theatre

In a dark cinema or theatre at the end of a long day, nodding off is too often the swiftest short-cut to unconsciousness. No chance of that in Jonathan Munby's rich and startling production of this highly strung drama by Spain's last great...

Six bored, promiscuous students go on a sexually charged rampage in Martin Crimp's adaptation of Ferdinand Bruckner's 1920s play. Director Katie Mitchell - behind the stellar NT productions of Waves and The Seagull - is at the helm. World Premiere.

Purists may disapprove of the vivid emotional shades in Simon McBurney's striking Complicite production. But, for audiences condemned to wait with the actors at the brink of the last abyss, they bring relief to Samuel Beckett's bleakest...

Anna Friel sparkles in this stage adaptation of Truman Capote's slender novella - she even twinkles her way out of Audrey Hepburn's shadow. So it's a shame that director Sean Mathias and adaptor Samuel Adamson have lumbered their diamond leading...

Yorkshire company Slung Low bring their follow-up to 'Helium', a walk-though interactive piece combining live performance, dance, music and digital projection.

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee's courtroom drama was based on the 1925 Scopes monkey trial in which a Bible Belt schoolteacher was indicted for teaching Darwin. But it's the two grand demagogue roles - of wily secular defence lawyer Henry...

In this sassy four-hander, Andrew Bovell makes full use of both interpretations of his title: these characters are locked in mutual incomprehension but they harbour some hope that physical contact will take them further than speech. So they cheat...

Life is tragic, human beings balls of bitterness, complacency and rage - why then do we laugh? Trevor Griffiths's powerful 1975 play sets up the question like an old-fashioned joke: two Irishmen, a Jew, a couple of fools and a nutter walk into a...

Thea Sharrock directs Claire Higgins in the title role of Nicholas Wright's play about a psychoanalyst's relationship with her daughter in 1934.

New play by Nick Payne about the unlikely friendship between a bullied school girl and her hapless uncle. Directed by Josie Rourke.

Anyone who has read 'L'Argent', Emile Zola's nineteenth-century attack on the murky world of financial speculation, will surely be able to read between 'Money''s few lines. For the rest of us, it's more a question of soaking up the atmosphere in...

Based on a novella by Stephen King, the film is one of the most popular ever made, which makes it a risky candidate for the stage. At least we can be grateful that writers Owen O'Neill and Dave Johns haven't turned it into a musical....

'War Horse' is a lovely piece of family theatre, based on Michael Morpurgo's novel about a horse separated from his young master and spirited off to the Great War. But all the attention here is hogged by Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler's puppet...

In late 1930s Poland, anti-Semitism blooms again like a cancer out of remission; the Russians arrive and start enrolling spies, then the Germans file in and Jew-hating goes from pastime to policy. But playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek is not...

Graham Norton replaces Terry Wogan on the Eurovision Song Contest; Roger Allam replaces Graham Norton in ‘La...

Nearly 20 years on, Stephen Daldry's grotesquely original take on Priestley's socially crusading drama - which directors had traditionally taken very soberly indeed - is still vivid. As generations of English schoolchildren know, Priestley's...

Cosh Omar returns to the TRSE with a new farce exploring issues including multi-culturalism, sectarianism, sexuality and national identity.

In what must be the panto casting coup of the year, former 'Baywatch' babe Pamela Anderson plays the Genie of the Lamp for two weeks (Paul O'Grady takes over the role into the new year) in this new family production of 'Aladdin'. It has also just...

There’s a wonderful ’80s comedy sketch where one extremely effete doctor turns to another and declares,...

Irving Berlin's musical tale of romance and sharp-shootin' presents a few problems for the modern director, with its outdated racial and sexual politics. Still, it's difficult to imagine a more misguided approach than director Richard Jones's for...

A confession: sometimes I lazily assume that all long-running West End musicals are soulless corporate juggernauts...

‘We’re here to party, right?’ Are we? Who knew? ‘Thriller Live’ isn’t, it...

Michael Gambon may have pulled out due to poor health but the show goes on. So Richard Griffiths has been drafted in to play WH Auden opposite Alex Jennings as Benjamin Britten in Alan Bennett's new play. Frances de la Tour also stars in this...

'X-Factor' star (how many more cast lists will start with that phrase?) Diane Vickers makes her stage debut in the first major West End revival of Jim Cartwright's social comedy since its 1992 premiere at the National Theatre. Lesley Sharp is the...

Anna Friel in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', Lenny Henry makes his Shakespearean stage debut in 'Othello' and Kevin Spacey...

Despite the fact that Dickens’s book, a grim account of child poverty, and Lionel Bart’s chirpy tunes are...

Former 'Eastenders' hardman Nigel Harman stars in Sam Peter Jackson's darkly comic play about a news reader and his publicist locked in a battle of wills against the scandal-hungry paparazzi.

War would have been on Brecht's mind as he sat writing in exile in 1939 and it's no surprise that Tony Kushner's robust, often windy 2006 translation is very aware of the wars today. Fiona Shaw, who plays the wily old trader, is always on the...

The world's greatest quick-change artist (best-known for 'The Man with a Thousand Faces') plays over 100 characters in his latest show, directed by Sean Foley.

If you are looking for a poignant study of childhood lost, you won't find it here. Directed by Ben Harrison and adapted by Tanya Ronder, this 'Peter Pan' - which transfers to the O2 from Kensington Gardens where it was set in a 1,100-seater big...

Anyone who has yawned their way through the inanities of too many jukebox musicals is likely to wonder how...

Lisa Goldman directs Natasha Langridge's new play about a young Romany girl who falls in love with a boy from a local estate in east London.

Now in its tenth year, this Olivier-nominated tribute show has managed to woo audiences the world over by keeping the format devastatingly simple. Except for some insightful between-song banter, there is no attempt to tell the personal stories...

There’s no secret to the success of London’s longest-running musical. First there are the songs (soaring...

Barrie Rutter's indifferent Northern Broadsides production, which transfers to London from West Yorkshire Playhouse, really offers only one attraction: the opportunity to see whether comic Lenny Henry can successfully play it straight in his...