15.05.08

The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic makes an absolutely devastating impact in a production of stylised strangeness.

14.05.08

Haughty Greta Scacchi fails to create a storm in The Deep Blue Sea as it sketches a portrait of grey, puritan England, says Nicholas de Jongh.

13.05.08

A shocking, triumphant return for Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party almost 50 years since every theatre critic but one poured scorn and worse ...
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12.05.08

Amazing performances seal the success for That Face; 21-year-old Polly Stenham's play about a twisted family and incest.

09.05.08

Beau Jest parades its old-fashioned credentials and never shrinks from saying predictable things or clutching at clichés to express them.

08.05.08

While Levi David Addai's play, Oxford Street, remains plot-lite, its undercurrents of comedy and pathos keep the 85-minute evening buoyant.

06.05.08

Nicholas de Jongh found himself as overwhelmed by David Calder's King Lear as any interpretation he has seen in 25 years.

02.05.08

Conall Morrison's fascinating take on The Taming of the Shrew suggests there are links between the way 16th- and 21st-century men mistreat women.

01.05.08

Vanessa Redgrave is on stage for 90 minutes in a solo portrayal of grief in The Year Of Magical Thinking but the effect is muted.

30.04.08

Deciphering the meaning of Martin Crimp's The City is a process that intrigues and mystifies, irritates and engrosses.

23.04.08

Despite an impressive performance from Darius, a long-winded struggle to cram spectacular film Gone With The Wind on the West End stage was not worth...
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18.04.08

An extraordinary 12-hour performance of Shakespeare’s histories at the Roundhouse was electrified by Lex Shrapnel as Hotspur.

16.04.08

Small Change lives up to its title and gets locked in a repetitive, emotional cycle, says Nicholas de Jongh.

15.04.08

Triptych's scenes are never bland. They flow seamlessly into each other with the ease of a nightmare, says Nicholas de Jongh.

11.04.08

The RSC's proudction of The Merchant of Venice misses the essence of character dynamics and appears reduced rather than revived.

09.04.08

Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist is a funny take on Americans attempting to survive in non-English speaking countries, says Nicholas de Jongh.

09.04.08

Jeff Baron’s Visiting Mr Green, deals with racial and sexual intolerance in America when a handsome young Harvard graduate suffers sexual loneliness...
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08.04.08

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s inept new version of An Enemy of the People veers between grating modernism and old-fashioned solecism, says Nicholas de Jongh.

04.04.08

Wajdi Mouawad's black comedy Wedding Day At The Cro-Magnons paints an eery picture of life turned upside down by war in his native Lebanon.

04.04.08

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by promising American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, is a divinely amusing and unconventional comedy which poses...
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