Suzie Miller: “I was so moved to see my play Prima Facie changing the law”
She was a lawyer for 15 years, then left to become a playwright. The resulting work has shifted approaches to…
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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…
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The larger-than-life choreography of (LA)Horde
The collective’s eclectic, unconventional productions somehow work.
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Thomas Ostermeier’s An Enemy of the People: Ibsen for the Amazon age
The director’s world-famous adaptation, now premiering in English in the West End, is a scorching, punk-inflected take on the 1882…
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Sarah Snook’s one-woman The Picture of Dorian Gray is gimmicky and shallow
Technical bravura, camera trickery and a high-wire, high-energy performance are not enough to make this show enjoyable or meaningful.
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Live Aid musical Just For One Day: sanctimony and second-rate songs
Here are pop stars as cherubim and seraphim. Here is Ultravox belted out as if it was the Hallelulah chorus.
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50 years of Manon
In this Royal Opera House revival, Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful ballet still has the power to bring audiences to their feet.
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David Tennant is refreshingly vile in the Donmar’s Macbeth
The actor has a manic, eye-rolling energy and a real bitchiness in this production. But do we need the headphones?
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