Lawrence After Arabia Sophie Heatley 11/05/2016 As the centenary of the Arab Revolt (1916-1918), it seems appropriate for writer Howard Brenton to bring the courageous tale of Capt. Thomas Edward La...
Reasons to be Happy Sophie Heatley 30/03/2016 Do you have what it takes to be happy? In Neil LaBute’s second addition to a triptych of romantic comedies, (the third, Reasons to be Pretty Happy, ha...
Luna Gale Sophia Leuner 23/06/2015 Approximately a quarter of a million children in the U.S. are placed out of their homes annually due to child abuse and neglect or risk of child maltr...
Matchbox Theatre Adrian Pulle 14/05/2015 From the opening pre-recorded, pre-show announcement, requesting that the audience members ‘turn on’ their mobile phones, Michael Frayn’s ‘Matchbox Th...
Stevie Emile Poivet 16/03/2015 After its successful run at Chichester last year, the Hampstead Theatre is the second playhouse to host Christopher Morahan’s revival of Hugh Whitemor...
Hello/Goodbye Rebecca Coates 27/01/2015 Writer Peter Souter’s first play, Hello/Goodbye, was originally performed in the Downstairs venue of the Hampstead Theatre, but moved to the larger up...
Tiger Country Matthew Whitaker 17/12/2014 Returning to the Hampstead Theatre for a second time after a sell-out run in 2011, Tiger Country is writer-director Nina Raine’s examination of the in...
Seminar Rowena Hawkins 02/10/2014 A woman, Virginia Woolf famously wrote, must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Never has this been truer, suggests Theresa ...
In the Vale of Health Emma Hardy 31/05/2014 Four separate plays. Four interlocking plays. The same play performed four ways. To assign In the Vale of Health a succinct description is a challe...
Good People Rivka Jacobson 07/03/2014 This visceral, raw, compelling and mischievously funny and witty play, Good People, by the American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, receives its Lond...