A son writes an honest letter to his dad from a very rainy London. This is a lyrical piece that invites us to think of longing and nostalgia. In those ...
A young man tries to adjust to his new life in London.
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Sparkes and Hilaire have divided in two the work of unearthing and voicing by location, with Sparkes taking North and Hilaire the South of London, demarcated by the river that ...
Nina Raine’s play – about lawyers and their private lives – has just transferred from the National Theatre to the West End under the direction of Roger Michell.
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In 2005, Mike Bartlett’s formally experimental Not Talking found a home on BBC Radio 3 after being rejected from multiple theatres. In 2018 – amazingly – it is being performed ...
After witnessing segregation and tribalism at the school gates, actress Félicité Du Jeu wrote Spiked to show “what mothers have in common rather than focus on their differences”.
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Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori have written a fierce, rousing opera celebrating the Civil Rights Movement.
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This play written seventeen years ago hits us with a very contemporary dilemma. How do two people who love each other – and yet have a clear sense of their ...
In 1958, The Birthday Party was so widely panned it closed after eight performances. Sixty years later, enjoying one of the starriest revivals in the West End.
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Before you enter the theatre, you are asked to join a special WhatsApp group as part of the show. For once, we are not asked to switch off our phones. ...
James Fritz’s new play is bold, fresh and acutely observed – but also an incredibly uncomfortable theatrical experience.
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Bad Roads – a form of oral history about the ongoing war in Ukraine – is a political act, documenting a shocking reality in a conflict characterized by fakery.
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Emi Howell’s play, about the British-Iranian charity worker currently imprisoned in Iran, is political theatre at its best.
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Lola Arias’s melancholic study of the Falklands War is a strange and poignant show about war and memory.
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Second-time playwright Sharon Raizada takes a good marriage, puts it in a carriage with no seat belts and pushes it down the London rollercoaster.
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Terry Johnson’s portrait of legendary British cinematographer Jack Cardiff is a lovely tale of decline and twilight without an ounce of doom.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ searing satire on magazine journalism was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Hir, Taylor Mac’s raucous black comedy about small-town American values and trans politics, is both daringly subversive and very, very funny.
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I saw Anatomy of a Suicide the night of the election. As it turned out, it could have described the results.
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Prostitutes, Politicians, Profiteers is the first UK exhibition of George Grosz – savage lampooner of Weimar Berlin’s monstrous excess – since 1997. Lauren Van Schaik Smith went along.
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