 | 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... |
 | Othello     24 April 2013 The tragedy of Othello is, at heart, a domestic tragedy. For all the trappings of state and the exalted positions of the protoganists, it's the mundane story of people brought low by the jealousies .... More... |
 | Liz Robertson Sings Her Favourite Songs     24 April 2013 The Crazy CoqsTwenty-four songs in eighty minutes - enough to fill two albums and sung without a break except for some wry asides and jokes at her own expense. Liz Robertson is a class act. She may .... More... |
 | 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... |