New play about the class-spanning dynamic between royal aide John Brown and the late monarch's mother aims to be both high comedy and social observation
By John Nathan
Nicole Scherzinger's Norma Desmond transmits a tragic ego the size of the cinema screen in Jamie Lloyd’s slick musical
Seventy-five-year-old Bernadette Peters rolls back the years in Cameron Macintosh’s tribute to the late musical theatre genius
Directed by Sean Mathias and first seen at the Theatre Royal Windsor, this play would work well on the radio
By Tracy-Ann Oberman
When I landed a contract with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1990s, I was told to keep my heritage a secret
Rachel Bellman's latest work delves into the very Jewish mythology of dybbuks, mazzikin and personalised good and bad angels
By Nicole Lampert
Dmitry Glukhovsky new drama examines the moral compromises some people make with evil regimes
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Dmitry Ghlukhovsky’s new play investigates how good people can be corrupted under relatively little pressure
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Playwright who wrote his personal trauma into his two most successful plays
By Gloria Tessler
Art playwright Yasmina Reza's play centres on two couples on a spectacular collision course
This could so easily have been a comedy of manners if there was a tweak to the setting
Sam Holcroft’s witty and inventive new play shines a vital light on authoritarian regimes
I cannot remember a show that was so annoyingly written yet so impressively performed as this production about the repercussions of a mother's manic depression
This year's trio of dramas showcasing new talent are thought-provoking and moving but fail to venture out of the comfort zone
The future of Jewish writing in British theatre is finally looking bright and beautiful, discovers John Nathan
Dina Ibrahim's new play delves into the history of a Jewish family in Iraq
By Sandy Rashty
