There are plenty of shows about how tough growing up can be. Matilda, Curious Incident, even Mosquitoes currently running at the National. But it would be difficult to find one as brilliantly British... Read more
London Theatre Reviews
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Siblings disagree, they bicker, they argue. Lucy Kirkwood's new play Mosquitoes launches Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams together and sees what happens when they collide. It's set in 2008 as... Read more -
Well, the British summer weather may be letting us all down (yet again) at the moment, but we can always count on Jake and Elwood to bring a little sunshine into our lives and that's exactly what... Read more -
We all know what it's like as you grow up. You live, you learn, you love. Friends come, and friends go. But you have just one friend to take on the world with, losing them means everything. Darren... Read more -
Justice is a dish best served cold, and violently. That's exactly what's on the menu in Oliver Cotton's new thriller Dessert. Four upper class friends sit round a dinner table. An English couple are... Read more -
This production of Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities certainly is not the best of times. Matthew Dunster’s new adaptation sets Dickens’ story at the heart of the modern day refugee crisis. ... Read more -
The English monarchy has, of course, been the subject of many plays, from Shakespeare (Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, King John and Henry VIII) to Alan Bennett (George III) and the... Read more -
The Northern Powerhouse initiative to refocus the English economy away from London and the south east is already paying unexpected theatrical dividends thanks to the enterprising Hope Mill theatre in... Read more -
It used to be that the RSC production cycle would see the opening of a set of new productions at Stratford-upon-Avon one year and then the following bring them to the Barbican in London where they... Read more -
First there was Yasmina Reza; then came Florian Zeller; now there's Daniel Kehlmann. All continental novelists and playwrights who are each given to writing pithy, witty plays, invariably running for... Read more
