TheatreDealer’s Choice review: ‘male inadequacies laid bare’Set around a poker table, this play anchors on a painful father-son relationship and shows that the stake are always higher than the amount of cash on the tableBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreTheatre review: Ghosts ‘Today’s moral landscape imposes itself on Ibsen’s play’The action is updated to 21st century BritainBy John Nathan1 min read
Dance Dance review: International Draft Works and The Forsythe ProgrammeNew works from the Royal Ballet and English National BalletBy Joy Sable1 min read
TheatreMidnight Cowboy review: ‘not cut out for the stage’Why turn John Schlesinger’s famous 1968 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight into a musical? Does the story really need more music?By John Nathan1 min read
TheatreRhinoceros review: ‘don’t follow the herd’The message of this 1959 absurdist play survives. But instead of looking back at the horrors of conformism in 20th-century Europe, it now warns of the stampede aheadBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreApex Predator review: ‘this supernatural psychodrama just about works’John Donnelly’s hybrid play combines the occult with urban social realismBy John Nathan1 min read
DanceBalanchine: Three Signature Works ‘This was Balanchine at his best’A chance to get a bit of American pizzazzBy Joy Sable2 min read
Theatre Dear England review: ‘permission to be patriotic’How good to able to sit in a theatre and with some justification, rather than deluded hope, feel the unashamed urge to cry ‘Come on England’By John Nathan2 min read
TheatreA Comedy of Terrors review: ‘a hoot’This athletic Dracula send-up certainly puts the vamp into vampireBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreThe Seagull review: ‘Cate Blanchett gives it pitch–perfect pizzazz’The star is ceaselessly flamboyant in Thomas Ostermeier’s staging of the Chekhov comedyBy John Nathan2 min read
Theatre Farewell Mister Haffman review: ‘an unlikely ménage à trois’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 unconvincingBy Imogen Garfinkel2 min read
Dance Dance review: Romeo and JulietThe Royal Ballet shines in a classic productionBy Joy Sable1 min read
TheatreThe Last Laugh review: ‘a love letter to British comedy and three of its funny men’This is a wonderful resurrection of gilded comedians Tommy Copper, Eric Morecambe and Bob MonkhouseBy John Nathan2 min read
TheatreUnicorn review: ‘Stephen Mangan, Nicola Walker and Erin Doherty in threesome’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 affairBy John Nathan1 min read
Theatre This Menuhin show is all about the words, not the musicThe granddaughter of the great classical violinist on her first stage play, an adaptation of the 1938 German novel The PassengerBy John Nathan5 min read
Theatre Richard II review: ‘has lessons for Trump’The American President, not known for his appreciation of Shakespeare, won’t watch this, but he shouldBy John Nathan1 min read
