 | The Tempest (Globe)    3 May 2013 Jessie Buckley as Miranda & Roger Allam as Prospero (Photo: Marc Brenner) How reluctant is Prospero to give up his power? He talks of abjuring his magic to embrace his former position but how easily .... More... |
 | Merrily We Roll Along      2 May 2013 At the Menier last November we marvelled merely at Maria Friedman’s directing debut with this poignant, heart-felt and wondrously witty musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, a 1981 re-w.... More... |
 | La bohème     1 May 2013 ENO have opened their summer season in style with a newly-minted, endearing and engrossing revival of Jonathan Miller’s staging of La bohème. .... More... |
 | Fräulein Julie    1 May 2013 You could write a book about performances of Miss Julie, probably in recent years the most adapted classic of the modern repertoire, and Katie Mitchell's meticulous, slow-moving new version for the .... More... |
 | Desperately Seeking the Exit    1 May 2013 Peter Michael Marino shows that self-deprecation is the height of humour in this one-man-band show about how his West End musical staging of the cult-but-corny 80s film Desperately Seeking Susan using.... More... |
 | The Pajama Game    30 April 2013 These are strange times for Chichester. The theatre is experiencing a rich run of success with London transfers aplenty and a regular spot at awards nights and yet, in the middle of this golden peri.... More... |
 | Rooms - A Rock Romance    26 April 2013 The Finborough Theatre provides a fittingly intimate space for the European Premiere of ROOMS – A Rock Romance, a tale of unlikely romance between two Glasgow musicians in the 1970s. The show .... More... |
 | The Weir     26 April 2013 The roar of the Celtic Tiger is a long way behind us now, but the regulars in Conor McPherson's Sligo pub, who first turned up in 1997 at the Royal Court in exile in the West End (during the refurbi.... More... |
 | As You Like It (RSC)     25 April 2013 Having been bowled over by her production of King John last year, I was eagerly anticipating Maria Aberg's first main house outing for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her inventive spirit and bold risk.... More... |
 | The Seagull (Tour - Watford)     25 April 2013 This is an outstanding production by Blanche McIntyre for Headlong (co-produced with the Nuffield, Southampton, in association with Derby Theatre) of Chekhov's play: it is fresh, funny, absolutely o.... More... |