Black Comedy ★★★★
Renowned playwright Peter Shaffer engages funny mode in this revival of Black Comedy at the delightfully intimate Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.
London Drama
Quartet in Autumn ★★★★★
Bacon at 46 pence, butter beans at 12 pence, and a prejudicial haughtiness against Dairy
End of The Rainbow – Soho Theatre Walthamstow ★★★★★
In late 1968, Judy Garland was running out of road, out of money and out
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Old Vic ★★★★★
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is revitalised in Clint Dyer’s new version at the Old Vic.
Mother Courage and Her Children – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★★
Disturbingly relevant, Anna Jordan translates ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ for a Brechtian debut at The Globe.
An Ideal Husband – Lyric Hammersmith ★★★★
Nicholai La Barrie breathes new life into ‘An Ideal Husband’ with masses of magnificence.
1536 – Ambassadors Theatre ★★★★★
Women, power and survival amid a Tudor court scandal are central to Ava Pickett’s ‘1536’
Derrière on a G String ★★★★
Some Smith & Moore present ‘Derrière on a G String’: a 75-minute dance-fuelled fever dream featuring street scammers, tap shoes, and buckets of homoeroticism.
Krapp’s Last Tape / Godot’s To Do List ★★★★★
Starring and directed by Gary Oldman, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape returns to the Royal Court, in a production first seen at York Theatre Royal last year.
Blue / Orange ★★★★
OSO Artistic Director Lydia Sax directs ‘Blue / Orange’, the ground-breaking satire on the NHS