Since lockdown, many parents have asked me whether I’d recommend online theatre to stream for their children. Until now, I have hesitated in recommen...
In 1612 the young artist Artemisia Gentileschi took the highly unusual step of making an accusation of rape against Agostino Tassi, a favourite painte...
Whatever your love-hate relationship with Zoom looks like at this point of the pandemic, perhaps some part of you is nursing, like I am, a certain deg...
The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, and once again the tiny Jermyn Street Theatre has proved that small can be beautiful and the ver...
Faustus: That Damned Woman is brought to the stage with energetic spirit by Headlong, in a production directed by Caroline Byrne. By making Faustus a ...
It takes more than a spot of Coronavirus to keep the crowds away from the New Wimbledon Theatre. There were few empty seats on the opening night of th...
40 years since the original production, Finborough Theatre revives Paul Kember’s 1980 play Not Quite Jerusalem. It’s set in 1979 and looks at what it ...
Cheek by Jowl’s latest venture into the world of Shakespeare and his contemporaries take the form of a modern-dress, Italian-language version of the m...
The sheer length of a play is often no guide to the emotional sense of time passing: some short plays drag and others leave you wishing them longer. T...
