Michael Sheen is remarkable in the National Theatre’s Nye
There could not be a better time for this story of Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, the Welsh Labour MP and arch-creator…
ByThere could not be a better time for this story of Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, the Welsh Labour MP and arch-creator…
ByThe director’s world-famous adaptation, now premiering in English in the West End, is a scorching, punk-inflected take on the 1882…
ByTechnical bravura, camera trickery and a high-wire, high-energy performance are not enough to make this show enjoyable or meaningful.
ByHere are pop stars as cherubim and seraphim. Here is Ultravox belted out as if it was the Hallelulah chorus.
ByIn this Royal Opera House revival, Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful ballet still has the power to bring audiences to their feet.
ByThe actor has a manic, eye-rolling energy and a real bitchiness in this production. But do we need the headphones?
ByThe Southbank Centre puts a refreshing new twist on the most established of theatrical traditions.
ByRarely have I been less touched by a production than this one – when Gloucester was blinded, the audience laughed.
ByCarlos Acosta’s playful and fiery take on the 1869 ballet is a joyful marriage of movement and music.
ByFree Your Mind is a spectacle – but for a show about man and machine, it lacks the human touch.
ByPlaying eight roles in this one-man Chekhov adaptation, the actor is utterly convincing.
ByIn his new play about Gareth Southgate, James Graham uses football to explore a contested national identity.
ByOver 24 hours, as Wilson played the same scene with 100 different actors, the repetition became addictive – and profound.
ByThis four-hour self-harm horror-show is schadenfreude dressed up as empathy.
ByThe RSC production of the Hayao Miyazaki film – which has deservedly won six Olivier Awards – combines enchanting stagecraft with…
BySophie Okonedo’s formidable Medea will go down as a legend in theatre history.
ByThis twee, smug, lowest-common-denominator political satire is not just bad: it’s mindless.
ByWhile her mother Emmeline has traditionally been the most famous Pankhurst, the Old Vic’s new show is just the latest…
ByI’d never been to the Theatre Royal before, but its a delightful, old-school place.
ByJonathan Freedland’s play considers the prejudicial myths fuelling anti-Semitism today, and how the Royal Court became complicit.
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