Rarely is theatre’s fourth wall broken so jaggedly as in Bryony Lavery’s play, Frozen
Ralph, a serial rapist and murderer of children, chattily soliloquises about the corpses and torture-porn videos stored in his lock-up garage.
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Carey Mulligan is oddly unemotional in Dennis Kelly’s powerful new play, Girls & Boys
If you intend to see Girls & Boys, don’t read this review.
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Nicholas Hytner’s punkish, modern-day Julius Caesar makes the play firmly about populism
The production will inevitably be compared to Hytner’s 2003 Iraq War-inflected Henry V; but Trump allusions here are more restrained.
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Tremendous new plays Beginning and John offer differing looks at our desperation for connection
David Eldridge and Annie Baker’s works use contrasting tactics of realism and surrealism.
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Kathy Burke’s Lady Windermere’s Fan needs more edge to its gooey marshmallow centre
Any sense of danger under the frills and frocks has been lost in this production.
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New Statesman writers reflect on their roles in the school nativity
In a sentiment still true to this day, some of us are angels, others – just donkeys.
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The Secret Theatre: to what extent should we suspend liberty in return for security?
The key to reading between the lines of Anders Lustgarten’s play is easily to be found in post 9/11 news stories.
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Network is a two-hour lesson on the dangerous attraction of formless, pointless anger
Bryan Cranston stuns in Ivo van Hove’s dazzling theatre update of the 1976 film.
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