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Looking like the portrait in Tom Hiddleston’s attic, he stalks the stage with a lean, kinetic, raptor’s mien, glorying in verbal combat in a meticulous Romanian accent, ready to pounce…

This musical at Theatre Royal Haymarket has two loveable leads but it all feels a little thin

This second run at Southwerk Playhouse sees Adam Lenon’s social history musical hit its stride

The action, shifted forward to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, has an airless intensity many of us will recognise from lockdown. “There’s so much hate in here you can hardly…

Miriam Battye’s darkly funny comedy at Soho Theatre is about a group of girls getting ready for a night out and wondering what faces them

This wonderful meditation on love, death and mathematics dances through the mind and the heart

There are echoes of the latter story in the way Lost Atoms charts the ups and downs of a relationship from beginning to end. It starts with a “meet cute”.…

Despite Rosenfield’s ministrations, the dialogue lacks the sparkle of later Coward, with the couple arguing over ownership of the “best” pencil and whether to have last night’s mutton for supper.…

But songs like Hard Body sound weak beside the genuine 80s hits by Phil Collins, Tears for Fears and, yes, Huey Lewis, included to mock Bateman’s cultural void. The keyboard-and-bass…

Here, Prospero’s scenes become a piece of ritualised storytelling between him, his daughter Miranda and the island inhabitants, Ariel and Caliban, who he has enslaved. They sit in a square…