 | Doktor Glas   19 April 2013 The Swedish Wallander, Krister Henriksson, has brought his stylish, gloomy monodrama, a classic depression fest of a doomed love triangle, to Wyndham's, and will surely delight his legion of fans, t.... More... |
 | #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei     18 April 2013 Howard Brenton's majestically simple, modest and beautifully presented new play is an art gallery installation based on a recently published book by journalist Barnaby Martin about the 81 days of de.... More... |
 | The Empress (RSC)     18 April 2013 The Swan, so atmospheric with its dark wood and warm light, welcomes me with projected waves crashing upon a shore. I'm on board a ship's deck, and the year is 1887. With Kneehigh's Emma Rice at .... More... |
 | Beautiful Thing     18 April 2013 It’s 20 years since Jonathan Harvey’s gay coming-of-age story first hit the London stage. Premiering at the Bush Theatre in 1993, the story of Ste and Jamie’s journey towards.... More... |
 | Children of the Sun    17 April 2013 One of the chief strands in Nicholas Hytner's tenure at the National Theatre has been the fine Russian productions of Howard Davies, and while this revival of Maxim Gorky's scathing 1905 tragi-com.... More... |
 | Nabucco     16 April 2013 Let’s be clear about this; we’re only back for Plácido. Nothing has changed in Daniele Abbado’s indifferently received staging of Verdi’s Nabucco save the tenant o.... More... |
 | Table (NT Shed)    15 April 2013 Sophie Wu & Paul Hilton (photo credit Richard Hubert Smith) There's a big red wooden shed gone up outside the National Theatre: this is The Shed, standing in for the Cottesloe, which is closed f.... More... |
 | On Approval  15 April 2013 New Jermyn Street artistic director Anthony Biggs does at least do us one big favour in his stilted revival of Frederick Lonsdale's 1927 comedy: he allows us to see how very unfunny it is without t.... More... |
 | Sunken Garden   13 April 2013 English National Gizmo is back. The prevailing Coliseum precept that new commissions must include cutting-edge technology has taken ENO on a Barbican .... More... |
 | Ubu Roi      12 April 2013 Disappointment that this is not going to be a flat-out grunt and grime version of Alfred Jarry’s surreal, scatological 1896 spoof gore-fest is soon tempered by the sly, cool brilliance of Chee.... More... |