A first class interpretation of Chekhov's classic play adaptation brings out the best in Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen ...

The Guardian‘s Mark Lawson made the point: ‘Here is a particularly frustrating example of an at least five-star performance of an at best three-star script. I’ve split the difference while wishing ...

Marianka Swain for LondonTheatre said: ‘under Luke Sheppard’s electrifying direction, it … packs an almighty punch. It honours the soul of the original, while making it feel thrillingly fresh’. She ...

Aliya Al-Hassan for LondonTheatre suggested: ‘A dramaturg is urgently needed to add structure to a production that goes off on bizarre and unnecessary tangents’. She described it as ‘a missed ...

Nick Curtis of the Standard was Bowlesd over: ‘Wow. Rebecca Frecknall’s new revival of Kander and Ebb’s musical set in interwar Berlin is a stunning, breathlessly exciting theatrical happening. It ...

The Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish wrote a moving review: ‘it could all veer into a superficial, episodic résumé. Yet Rachel Kavanaugh’s stylish production lends the story the vital, unifying aura of a ...

Every year I look forward to the Chichester Festival Theatre musical. Among the first class revivals of recent years have been Oliver!, South Pacific, Crazy For You with the incomparable Charlie Stemp ...

Miranda Raison & Ralph Fiennes in Grace Pervades. Photo: Marc Brenner WhatOnStage’s Sarah Crompton declared: ‘Hare writes a love letter to theatre itself, at a time when it was defining its journey ...

Adeel Akhtar, Lyndsey Marshal, Monica Dolan & Paul Hilton in Mass. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith WhatsOnStage‘s Sarah Crompton was impressed: ‘Four people sit around a table and talk. Franz Kranz’s ...

I’ve been to three shows this year in which women in unsatisfactory marriages assess the alternatives. All were written in the years between the two world wars, all are funny, but the one that made me ...

Tom Wicker for TimeOut had plenty of good things to say about the show: ‘Foster’s staging is gorgeous…Leah Hill’s choreography is playfully breathless…(Radebe) brings an intensity to this ...

The critics’ hearts were captured by the little bear from Peru. Even those who found faults in the production still awarded four stars. For the majority who gave five star reviews, it was not only the ...