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If it were a triumph, life would be easier; the National in safe hands, theatre saved. If it were a dud everyone could cluck and crow. Instead it’s both, and…

Nima Taleghani is becoming the first debutant playwright to have a play on at the National Theatre’s Olivier stage… and he’s not freaking out at all

The show opens at Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre on September 10 before heading to Cardiff, Brighton, London, Birmingham, Manchester, York, Newcastle and Glasgow. The London stop will see Piff return to…

The saving grace, then, is Pickett’s instinctive knack for finding humour in even the most drab conversations. Her script is littered with golden nuggets of comedy; one of the biggest…

When laconic barman Brendan (Owen McDonnell) arrives, Jack warns him that local boy-made-good Finbar, now a Carrick hotelier with a property empire, has rented a long-empty nearby house to an…

Juliet Stevenson seems to lack compassion in David Lan’s return to British theatre with a story about Nazi-abducted children

We’re in a sumptuous house in Ullswater in the Lake District where brittle pandemonium rules. Edward has two mixed-heritage daughters, Hilda and Asa, aged 17 and twentysomething, from his first…

Originally known for singular stage plays, Birch has moved into film (Lady Macbeth, the End We Start From, the forthcoming Die, My Love) and TV (Succession, Normal People, Dead Ringers).…

Although its roots are in the Victorian era, towards the end Malcolm’s version convincingly casts the story forward to the present day. It’s more subtle and thoughtful than a mere…

Sometimes everything is in place – splendid cast, interestingly neglected classic text, thoughtful director – and yet the production just lies there, inert, on the stage. That’s what’s happened with…