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Southern poetry floods In the Red and Brown Water

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:13:33 GMT

In the Red and Brown Water indicates Tarell Alvin McCraneys willingness to toy with the conventions of stagecraft.

Fact and fiction in Radioplay

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:13:05 GMT

It takes an Irish actor banished to remotest Cornwall in childhood to cook up a monologue as witty and fanciful as Radioplay.

Bright ideas in Broken Space Season

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:32:55 GMT

Ever-enterprising Artistic Director Josie Rourke has commissioned short pieces from 10 playwrights on the loose theme of darkness and light.

David Tennant labours in lost cause

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:32:55 GMT

Having been drenched in critics' superlatives for his Hamlet, David Tennant takes on a riskier proposition by trying his hand at Love's Labour Lost.

Teenage rampage in Lord of the Flies

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:14:38 GMT

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Pilot Theatre Company has revived its award-winning production of Lord of the Flies.

Walliams dazzles in No Man's Land

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:14:38 GMT

No Man's Land is chilling, thrilling Pinter in dream-land, relieved by flashes of sardonic amusement.

Rite doesn't get it right

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:38:39 GMT

Next May will be the 100th anniversary of the Paris debut of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The Australian Ballet is celebrating early.

Social climbing, Pittsburgh-style in Radio Golf

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:30:07 GMT

Long-winded Radio Golf opens with insinuating promise but does not altogether grab the ear - or heart.

Serious laughter in the master farce Norman Conquests

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:41 GMT

This assured revival of Alan Ayckbourn's masterful 1973 trilogy, showing in London for the first time in 34 years, usefully reminds us to take the laughter very seriously.

Comfort from boy next door in Cradle Me

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:31:28 GMT

Cradle Me and SH*T-M*X provide a reminder its worth looking beyond the confines of the West End.

Comfort from boy next door

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:26 GMT

Cradle Me and SH*T-M*X provide a reminder its worth looking beyond the confines of the West End.

Nunez gets her prince in Swan Lake

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:26 GMT

Argentine-born dancer Marianela Nunez improves her performance in Swan Lake with a more convincing Odile and Odette.

Recycled Waste has acting at its very finest

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:59:58 GMT

Waste itself taxes, tests and stretches the mind, but what an overwhelming experience, says Nicholas de Jongh.

Last years of Onassis

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:06:42 GMT

A resurgent Chichester wraps up its festival season with Martin Shermans meaty new bio-drama of Aristotle Onassis.

Tortured by horrors in Memory

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:04:37 GMT

Jonathan Lichtenstein's 90-minute play, Memory, cannot be faulted for ambition, epic scope or meditative daring, says Nicholas de Jongh.

Sense of humour in Dance Umbrella

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:10:24 GMT

It's fitting that Merce Cunningham should open Dance Umbrella. The veteran innovator was ever inspiration to the annual dance event.

Male is deadlier species in Strindberg revival

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:06:15 GMT

Alan Rickman's production of Creditors suggests Strindberg had a complex and disturbing view of human relations.

Welcome to Ramallah misses the mark

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:31:46 GMT

There is drama to be written on the emotive topic of the Israel/Palestine conflict and the occupation of the West Bank.

Rosas is serious but so seductive

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:01:04 GMT

Theatre‑goers should let themselves be seduced by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's visual cashmere, and the ease of her dancers, modern-day goddesses one and all.

Girl with a Pearl Earring becomes soap opera

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:30:01 GMT

David Joss Buckleys stage adaptation of Tracy Chevaliers novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which became both an international best seller and Peter Webbers superlative 2004 movie, works like a destructive charm.

Morphoses fulfils its promise

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:16:28 GMT

All eyes were on Christopher Wheeldon to see if the Royal Ballet trained, New York-based choreographer could follow through.

Anglo-Irish madness in Walworth Farce

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:16:28 GMT

Mikel Murfi's chronically boisterous production of The Walworth Farce remains true to the title with its characterising notes of grotesquerie.

All Ray and a ball in Come Dancing

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:12:19 GMT

Kinks front man Ray Davies conceived the story, co-wrote the book, penned the music and lyrics and also stars in the charming Come Dancing.

President's pains in Leaving

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:50:07 GMT

The Orange Tree's latest production, Leaving, is an unsubtle, ragbag of elements that eventually disintegrates into randomness.

On the game in Girlfriend Experience

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:47:23 GMT

The Girlfriend Experience consists of edited but real-life conversations, recorded in a Bournemouth basement home that doubled as a brothel.