Theatre

Playing dead

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

It could be the nuttiest idea ever. The protagonist of this American musical is Death, who secretly reprieves a beautiful…

Playing dead

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

It could be the nuttiest idea ever. The protagonist of this American musical is Death, who secretly reprieves a beautiful…

Amphibious assault

28 January 2017 9:00 am

David Spicer’s farce Raising Martha opens with a skeleton being disinterred on a frog farm by animal-rights activists. They hope…

Death trap: Gytha Parmentier and Roman Van Houtven in ‘Us/Them’ at the Dorfman

Amphibious assault

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

David Spicer’s farce Raising Martha opens with a skeleton being disinterred on a frog farm by animal-rights activists. They hope…

Death trap: Gytha Parmentier and Roman Van Houtven in ‘Us/Them’ at the Dorfman

Amphibious assault

26 January 2017 3:00 pm

David Spicer’s farce Raising Martha opens with a skeleton being disinterred on a frog farm by animal-rights activists. They hope…

Remembrance of things past

21 January 2017 9:00 am

The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…

Remembrance of things past

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…

Remembrance of things past

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini, has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Now it arrives on…

Drama queen

14 January 2017 9:00 am

God, what a dusty old chatterbox Schiller is. Like Bernard Shaw, he can’t put a character on stage without churning…

Drama queen

12 January 2017 3:00 pm

God, what a dusty old chatterbox Schiller is. Like Bernard Shaw, he can’t put a character on stage without churning…

Drama queen

12 January 2017 3:00 pm

God, what a dusty old chatterbox Schiller is. Like Bernard Shaw, he can’t put a character on stage without churning…

Hedda Garbler

7 January 2017 9:00 am

Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…

Kate Duchêne as Juliana, Kyle Soller as Tesman, Ruth Wilson as Hedda, Rafe Spall as Brack and Sinead Matthews as Mrs Elvsted in ‘Hedda Gabler’

Hedda Garbler

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…

Kate Duchêne as Juliana, Kyle Soller as Tesman, Ruth Wilson as Hedda, Rafe Spall as Brack and Sinead Matthews as Mrs Elvsted in ‘Hedda Gabler’

Hedda Garbler

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…

Madeleine Worrall as Wendy in the Olivier’s post-truth ‘Peter Pan’

Deplorable entertainment

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Buried Child is a typical Sam Shepard play. The main character, Dodge, is a brain-damaged alcoholic cripple stuck in a…

Madeleine Worrall as Wendy in the Olivier’s post-truth ‘Peter Pan’

Deplorable entertainment

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Buried Child is a typical Sam Shepard play. The main character, Dodge, is a brain-damaged alcoholic cripple stuck in a…

Deplorable entertainment

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Buried Child is a typical Sam Shepard play. The main character, Dodge, is a brain-damaged alcoholic cripple stuck in a…

Angst and cant

10 December 2016 9:00 am

What if? is the engine of every great story. What if the toys came to life when their owner left…

Angst and cant

8 December 2016 3:00 pm

What if? is the engine of every great story. What if the toys came to life when their owner left…

Angst and cant

8 December 2016 3:00 pm

What if? is the engine of every great story. What if the toys came to life when their owner left…

Of ice and men

3 December 2016 9:00 am

An ice floe. Two anglers. Months to kill. That’s the premise of Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins.…

Of ice and men

1 December 2016 3:00 pm

An ice floe. Two anglers. Months to kill. That’s the premise of Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins.…

Of ice and men

1 December 2016 3:00 pm

An ice floe. Two anglers. Months to kill. That’s the premise of Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins.…

Precious metal

26 November 2016 9:00 am

Who could resist School of Rock? For me it was a chance to see a heavy-metal musical written by the…

The greatest laurels belong to the kids in ‘School of Rock’

Precious metal

24 November 2016 3:00 pm

Who could resist School of Rock? For me it was a chance to see a heavy-metal musical written by the…