 | Tanzi Libre   22 May 2013 First things first, it's great to see the Southwark Playhouse open again. Set halfway down Newington Causeway, their first programming choice is Clare Luckham's Tanzi Libre, a ‘play with s.... More... |
 | Relatively Speaking     21 May 2013 Goodness knows why Alan Ayckbourn's debut success has had to wait 46 years for its first West End revival. Relatively Speaking, short, sweet and savage, has been a regional stand-by for decades f.... More... |
 | Limbo      21 May 2013 Following the extraordinary success of last year's Cantina, director Scott Maidment has again brought together performers from around the world for the spectacular Limbo. It garnered rave reviews .... More... |
 | Ariadne auf Naxos    19 May 2013 News leaked out about Glyndebourne’s season-opener, a new production of Richard Strauss’s delicious confection Ariadne auf Naxos, a few days in advance of the first night, setting up qu.... More... |
 | La donna del lago     18 May 2013 In his biography of Rossini, Richard Osborne says of La donna del lago that it’s “ill-suited to larger houses, however grand the piece can be made to seem scenically.” It.... More... |
 | The Victorian in the Wall     17 May 2013 From previous Perrier award-winner Will Adamsdale comes this middle class musical about all the important things in life; composting, learning Spanish, floundering relationships and, most of all, k.... More... |
 | 4000 Miles     16 May 2013 This import from New York, by way of the Ustinov Studio at Bath’s Theatre Royal, is a bit of a treat. The writing of Amy Herzog and a very strong cast results in beautifully constructed ch.... More... |
 | 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... |