Director Lucy Bailey presents The Beggar's Opera not as the romp we might expect, but with an atmosphere reminiscent of William Hogarth's perceptive prints, showing us a sickly world where carousing is always shadowed by complaint... more
Lucy Bailey’s bold production of Julius Caesar, first seen at Stratford in May 2009, begins with a scene that certainly isn’t in Shakespeare’s original... more
City insurance broker is entering the boxing ring to raise money for a charity set up in memory of an Army officer friend fatally wounded in Afghanistan... more
You won’t find better performances in the West End right now than those of David Suchet and Zoë Wanamaker in Howard Davies’s meaty All My Sons.... more
The first production of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the place it was set, is due to open. The play's official first night follows previews which have played to packed houses... more
On this occasion, it feels as though The Importance of Being Earnest has primarily been set up as a star vehicle to drive Penelope Keith back into the West End.... more
Much to Nicholas de Jongh's surprise, the death of an obscure 20th-century Pope provides inspiration for a beguiling theatrical whodunnit in The Last Confession.... more
Harold Pinter casts a rare, revealing eye on adultery and its companion, mendacity, in Betrayal, his indelibly fine account of a triangular love affair in Seventies literary London.... more
David Suchet excels at detective work in the Vatican in The Last Confession - the West End might need to ready itself for some Papal palpitations.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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