Reviewer's rating Jad Adams 09/10/2026Set in a hospital room in 1950, we watch as George Orwell faces his imminent death aged 46. Mark Stratford...
Il Turco in Italia Miho Uchida 08/10/2026The New National Theatre Tokyo opens its new season with Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, a co-production between Madrid’s Teatro...
De Profundis Wilder Gutterson 07/10/2026The two years that Oscar Wilde spent incarcerated in Reading Gaol for an illegal homosexual relationship marked a profound shift...
In the Dark Lennon Hu 19/09/2026Sitting in the medieval stone sanctuary of St Bartholomew the Great for In the Dark, I felt a surge of...
The Seven Deadly Sins / The Human Voice Josi Steinfeld 18/09/2026Argentinian-Italian director Alejandro Bonatto presents Anna (The Seven Deadly Sins) and Elle (The Human Voice) as the same woman at...
Golden Boy Tim Hochstrasser 18/09/2026Clifford Odets is not a widely remembered name or regularly produced playwright and yet this play, when you see it,...
Reviewer's rating Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Jad Adams 17/09/2026Based on Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of the same name, this play starts with Bob, who wants to be a novelist...
The School for Wives Sara Tiron 16/09/2026Molière’s The School for Wives is built around an irresistibly comic premise. Arnolphe, terrified of being cuckolded, has raised the...
Reviewer's rating Crime and Punishment Jad Adams 16/09/2026A student alone in his room for days on end dreams of what it is to be a great man....
Cavalleria rusticana Alessandro Zummo 15/09/2026Cavalleria rusticana carries a danger that its own success has made almost inevitable: collapsing into a postcard of an imaginary...
