This athletic Dracula send-up certainly puts the vamp into vampire
By John Nathan
The star is ceaselessly flamboyant in Thomas Ostermeier’s staging of the Chekhov comedy
There is much to enjoy in the London premiere of this darkly comic play set in Nazi-occupied Paris, but its premise means it is ultimately unconvincing
By Imogen Garfinkel
This is a wonderful resurrection of gilded comedians Tommy Copper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse
Having explored a gay couple being attracted to a straight relationship in the play Cock, Mike Bartlett now turns to a heterosexual relationship where a spouse wants a same-sex affair
The granddaughter of the great classical violinist on her first stage play, an adaptation of the 1938 German novel The Passenger
The American President, not known for his appreciation of Shakespeare, won’t watch this, but he should
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Jeffrey Sweet delivers a dark play about a previously blacklisted Jewish comic who refuses to let go of the past, even if it’ll destroy him
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Is this a must-see production of the classical work? As Elektra puts it (throughout): no
The message that it is possible to replace trauma with inner peace is reassuring, but it is prioritised over the drama of Holocaust survivor Miriam Freedman’s story
Simon Lipkin’s Fagin is the best but not only reason to buy a ticket for this sublime revivial of the masterpiece
Instead of dismantling tropes and stereotypes about Jews, the writers and directors of this play could be said to perpetuate them
Nick Cassenbaum’s Jewish revenge fantasy about Corbyn has been seen as ‘too Jewish’ by theatres, but he continues to do his shtick
Let’s hope Nick Cassenbaum builds on the wild success of this fearless Yiddishe heist
From Shtisel spin-off Kugel to Andy Cohen’s The Real Housewives of London, 2025 has plenty in store
By Elisa Bray
This year Patrick Marber directed The Producers, Nachtland and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. Were there a Theatre Practitioner of the Year award, it would have his name on it
