Direct from a sold-out season at Kiln Theatre the five star, hit play, The Son, transfers to the Duke of York’s theatre for ten weeks only from 24 August 2019. Written by the internationally acclaimed Florian Zeller, lauded by The Guardian as ‘the most exciting playwright of our time’, The Son is directed by the award-winning Michael Longhurst and forms the final part of the critically acclaimed trilogy with The Father and The Mother. I’m telling you. I don’t understand what’s happening to … [Read more...]
Best Plays in London + New Plays
From long-running plays such as The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution to other productions running now or opening in 2023.
Creditors by August Strindberg at Jermyn Street Theatre | Review
This is one of those plays that is very much of its time and yet has much contemporary relevance. Creditors has all of its action in one hotel room, where Adolf (James Sheldon) and Gustaf (David Sturzaker), another hotel guest staying in the same establishment, are in conversation - Adolf’s wife, Tekla (Dorothea Myer-Bennett) enters the room sometime later. Adolf and Gustav’s conversation gets rather too personal, considering these are people who have apparently just met recently. All becomes … [Read more...]
Out of Water by Zoe Cooper at The Orange Tree Theatre
I’m a bit of a sucker for fish: freshwater, ocean-going, tropical - you name it. So when finding that the neat, in-the-round performance space for Out Of Water was dominated in one corner by a real tropical aquarium tank complete with lights, submerged plastic plant-life and, the coup de grace, a large, live, grey, long-fish contentedly moseying around its watery empire then I naturally had to traverse the playing area, unhindered by the usher, and get up close and personal with this fine … [Read more...]
Small Island adapted by Helen Edmundson at the Olivier Theatre | Review
After the recent Windrush Generation government scandal, this National Theatre production of Small Island couldn’t have come at a better time. Based on Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel and adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, it tells the stories of two families, one white and one black leading up to the arrival of immigrant workers from the Caribbean on the Empire Windrush in 1948. The first act of Small Island seesaws between Jamaica where we meet the young Hortense (played by Leah Harvey) … [Read more...]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag at Wyndham’s Theatre
DryWrite, Soho Theatre and Annapurna Theatre have today announced that the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning FLEABAG is to play the West End for a strictly limited four week run this summer. Written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and directed by Vicky Jones, the one-woman show just finished playing to a sold-out house Off-Broadway in New York, and premiered its second season on BBC Three to universal acclaim. The homecoming run will be the last time Waller-Bridge will perform the piece. The … [Read more...]