Theatre

The National's Christmas folie de grandeur is simply unforgivable

This adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel is funny, seditious, intelligent, courageous and beautiful

The writing in Glory Ride – A New Musical feels raw and so do the lyrics, but this show has a fascinating yarn to tell

It is genuinely startling and shocking that this is the first Othello from a black director at a major venue

No amount of effort can get over this dime-a-dozen children's show's innate tiredness

Over the years this enormously popular production has taken on a life of its own

This pared-down production is theatre at its most basic and minimalist

This farce is a limp, boring and painfully unfunny exercise in folie de grandeur

Amy Trigg’s play about life with spina bifida is a tremendous piece of writing and acting, but repeats are for television

The fundamental problem with this musical is that it just doesn’t really have any memorable music

A show about shallow people really shouldn’t be so shallow itself. Sadly, this production falls into this trap

The play's 90 minutes pass effortlessly enough, but ultimately one was left feeling it was much ado about nothing

Any attempt to explain this play will not do it justice. Just go and see it. It is simply wonderful

This production has gotten Soho Place off to a marvellously, pun intended, good start

This adaptation of a Japanese children’s fantasy suggests the RSC will do whatever is necessary to get its finances back in order after the pandemic

This is an important play, beautifully acted and performed

Juliet Stevenson is on spellbinding form in the title role of this long-awaited West End transfer

It’s a pleasure to see David Tennant back on stage, even if it has turned out Nazi again

Pearl Cleage’s homage to the steamy plays of Tennessee Williams seems awfully contrived

The home secretary would benefit from seeing this story of a family fleeing their native Afghanistan

For all the remarkable events and achievements of his life, Brynner was always content for mythologies to propagate around him

There’s a lot about determinedly right-on people that invites ridicule, but Jonathan Spector's play misses the mark

At a time when British theatre is curiously apathetic, this sumptuous revival reminds us what it should be doing: rallying for decency

A hit almost a decade ago, this production now feels like a joke in very poor taste

Waleed Akhtar is a writer prepared to address issues head-on and with enormous clarity and courage

This production challenges politics, our values and the dystopia we are beginning to call normal with style and intelligence

It's a show filled with obvious and patronising themes. In trying to take on too much, it feels almost punitively long

This production misses the opportunity for laughs and instead its themes verge on patronising

This well-intentioned production, sadly, lacks any real drama

In normal circumstances this musical is the sort of thing that would have found a stage quickly enough and held on to it for months. These are not, however, normal circumstances

The Take That star is engaging, but a two hour 20 minute talk through his life story is quite the ask

The best children’s shows manage to entertain both the children and their parents, but this production tries too obviously to get both on side and satisfies neither