 | Murder in Play (tour - Stevenage, Gordon Craig Theatre)    14 May 2013 Comedy thrillers can to be tricky to pull off. Comedy thrillers which involve a play within a play (leaving Hamlet to one side) offer even more pitfalls to an unwary director. Simon Brett's Murder i.... More... |
 | Dogs Land (Leeds)    14 May 2013 Mad Dogs’ performance at Stage@Leeds represented a coming home to a gratifyingly full and enthusiastic audience for the acclaimed dance group after a short tour. From the purely theatrical viewpoint.... More... |
 | Bohemian Rhapsody (Tour - Darlington)      14 May 2013 I always approach a Queen tribute show with an air of trepidation. Anyone who tries to recreate the sound of the late great Freddie Mercury is incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Thankfully all the.... More... |
 | Noises Off (Tour - Sheffield)      14 May 2013 Michael Frayn’s Noises Off is a masterpiece of exquisitely imagined and expertly crafted comedy. Its first act is set during the technical rehearsal of a dreadfully written and poorly produced farce.... 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... |
 | If Room Enough (High Tide - The Rifle Hall, Halesworth)      12 May 2013 Venue: Rifle Hall Where: Halesworth All the familiar characters are there – Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban, Ferdinand, and Trinculo, but that’s where any similarity to Shakespeare.... 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... |
 | Chewing Gum Dreams (High Tide - The Cut, Halesworth)      12 May 2013 Venue: The CutWhere: HalesworthIt takes some guts – and no small amount of talent - to write an hour-long monologue and then perform it flawlessly and in character in front of an audience. Of course,.... More... |