 | These Shining Lives     16 May 2013 The new theatre's much better than the new play, but the whole enterprise looks promising. Jez Bond's splendid new neighbourhood theatre looks like a metro destination, too, with its Donmar-style .... More... |
 | Public Enemy     14 May 2013 The art of saying the unpopular truth is always attractive, and in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, which David Harrower has rewritten for ace director Richard Jones as Public Enemy (from a literal.... More... |
 | Sons Without Fathers      13 May 2013 Chekhov's unfinished first play is best known as Platonov but director Helena Kaut-Howson reverts to the closer Russian title of "Fatherlessness" in her spiky and colloquial translation, first seen .... More... |
 | London Wall    13 May 2013 John Van Druten's forgotten 1931 play about female office workers in a City law firm has arrived trailing rave reviews from the Finborough, but Tricia Thorns' production proves a mixed blessing on g.... More... |
 | Wozzeck      12 May 2013 Carrie Cracknell's Wootton Bassett Wozzeck is the most assured ENO debut for years, giving us a vision of Berg’s masterpiece that chills to the bone. Theatre wunderkind Rupert Goold was down t.... More... |
 | The Hothouse     10 May 2013 Jamie Lloyd's high-energy "Trafalgar Transformed" season continues with an outrageously funny production of Harold Pinter's weirdly unfinished second major play, one he wrote shortly after The Bir.... More... |
 | Travels With My Aunt    9 May 2013 The Menier Chocolate Factory has a thing about aunts of late. Following on the heels of last year's revival of Brandon Thomas' farce Charley's Aunt, this Graham Greene adaptation by Giles Havegal is a.... More... |
 | Don Carlo      9 May 2013 Cynics had a field day when the Royal Opera announced Anja Harteros for the role of Elisabeth in Don Carlo, and the no-show diva with a second-to-none cancellation record (or a next-to-none attendan.... More... |
 | The Match Box     9 May 2013 Leanne Best showed up well in Frank McGuinness' over-insulted, if not exactly underrated, version of Damned by Despair at the National last year, and here she is again in an original text by McGu.... More... |
 | Some Like it Hip Hop     9 May 2013 I didn't realise that I had stumbled into the opening night encore of La Traviata at La Scala in Milan, until I realised I hadn't. This was most definitely Holborn, and I was sitting in the stalls o.... More... |