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His rhetoric is ornate, almost poetic, where the young men’s speech is blunt and unrooted in the period. Turner’s production has the restless energy of REM sleep, where strange symbols…

By chance, the Duke of York’s was where the first major London revival of Arcadia was staged in 2009, in a production starring Stoppard’s son Ed: I interviewed Stoppard there,…

Russell Tovey is outstanding in this taut thriller about an emergency call responder on a particularly eventful shift

Both men have impediments – a stutter, polio – and wives who are uncomfortable playing merely loyal, supportive roles. Nelson wants us to see the human beings behind a pivotal…

At least three theatres are reporting highs of 30C inside as the union encourages World Cup-inspired hydration breaks

Adrian Lester is magnificent as the big-nosed, big-hearted soldier-bard in this witty and unbearably moving Royal Shakespeare Company revival of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 verse play. Director Simon Evans and writer…

Stephen Mangan is the tachycardic heart of The Truth. A sleek, satisfying production, and a proper West End night out

Not every story needs to be turned into a musical, but Matthew Warchus’s 2014 film Pride seemed to be crying out for it. Based on the true story of a…

One problem is that Old Blue Eyes was in this period, and continued to be, a grade-A shit – selfish, temperamental, violent, compulsively unfaithful – so it’s kinda hard to…

Sandra Oh is the saving grace of this slightly lost production that can’t decide whether it loves or hates the world it’s satirising, writes Nick Curtis