

A Joyfully Toxic Retelling of The Simpsons
✮✮✮✮ Anne Washburn's Mr Burns Almeida Theatre | London directed by Robert Icke Huddled round a campfire, post-apocalyptic refugees try to...


Lonely Planet
✮✮ 1/2 Polly Stenham's Hotel National Theatre | London directed by Maria Aberg If the Telegraph travel supplement got into a fight with a...


1, 2 Oops-a-Daisy 3, 4
✮✮✮✮ Simon Gray's In the Vale of Health: Japes | Michael | Japes Too | Missing Dates Hampstead Theatre | London directed by Tamara Harvey...


Hagiography of an All-American Saint
✮✮ David W. Lintels' Clarence Darrow The Old Vic | London directed by Thea Sharrock "I've always thought lawyers like to say more than is...


The Love Bug
✮✮✮ Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra The Globe | London directed by Jonathan Munby Watching a favourite Shakespearean play again and...


A Sharp Retro Take On Orwell's Futurist Dystopia
✮✮✮✮ George Orwell's 1984 Playhouse Theatre | London directed by Duncan Macmillan & Robert Icke Theatre adaptations of classic novels...


Baseball Caps Not Bowler Hats
✮✮✮ Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot Arcola Theatre | London directed by Simon Dormandy It’s been a long wait for an update to...


Everybody Steals
✮✮✮✮ Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business National Theatre | London directed by Adam Penfold Following on from his 1977 hit Bedroom...


A Kingdom for a Stage
✮✮✮✮ Mike Bartlett's King Charles III Almeida Theatre | London directed by Rupert Goold Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III is a modern day...


A Debris-Strewn Trail Through Rockstardom
✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Simon Stephens' Birdland The Royal Court Theatre | London directed by Carrie Cracknell As though in a scene from an old, old...