The Hairy Ape at The Old Vic
The newly-redecorated Old Vic theatre boasts a shiny white entrance hall, revamped all-day basement café,…
Browsing: Theatre
Measure for Measure
Shakespeare was clever, wasn’t he? Bowling around Elizabethan London, bard-ing away, and managing to write…
Medea at The Almeida
As part of the Almeida Greeks season, intrepid author Rachel Cusk has re-imagined the most…
The Importance of Being Earnest
Subtitled ‘A Trivial Comedy for Serious People’, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was…
Hay Fever
Noël Coward’s Hay Fever, written when the playwright was just twenty-five and first performed in…
The Audience
There couldn’t have been a more fitting time to revive The Audience than the week…
A Mad World, My Masters
The National’s 2011 hit One Man, Two Guvnors was one of the most enjoyable evenings…
The Hard Problem
Expectations could not have been higher for Tom Stoppard’s new play. It represents a series…
The History Boys
Alan Bennett’s wise, witty play about schoolboys, education and sex was first staged at the…
Arcadia
After the truly shattering disappointment of Tom Stoppard’s newest play, The Hard Problem, it was…
The Ruling Class
Second-or-third rate productions of first-rate plays are, regrettably, an all too common occurrence in London…
Merlin in Northampton
Theatre for children is no small undertaking. Nick Hammond applauds a new play in a…