They can be one of the irritants of summer: bees buzzing around you, clambering over your picnic, harmless and yet simultaneously threatening.
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Trends come and go, but Ewan Wardrop’s magical one-man George Formby biopic show is proof that talent – not topic – is the key to entertainment.
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Behind suburban doors what really goes on: could an outwardly happy couple really plot to murder each other?
Explore MoreWhen you discover your mother was convicted of killing your father
20 years ago, what is there to do but investigate?
There’s always a dilemma around the revival of a classic:
keep it the same and risk a pale imitation, or try a more radical reworking?
From the moment the curtain goes up on Noises Off there’s barely a quiet moment in the house — and that sound is belly laughs coming from the audience.
Explore MoreIt’s tempting to deliver the biggest scoop in theatre
criticism: whodunnit in The Mousetrap. But that would spoil the fun, and this
production of Agatha Christie’s classic play is all about fun.
Soldiers emerge from a battered metal cage, courageous but terrified at what might befall them in the unpredictable surroundings of war-torn Iraq.
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Torn loyalties are at the heart of this National Theatre touring production – both in the story and the delivery.
Explore MoreYou might go to a Mark Thomas gig expecting to be harangued, to be
heckled — but you don’t go expecting to have your heart toyed with.
With his latest show Bravo Figaro, you should.
The death of a child prodigy leaves a chilling mark behind in this tightly-wrought production of an Alan Ayckbourn classic.
Explore More“If the Lord is watching, the least we can do is be entertaining,” says one of the characters in Five Marys Waiting – and while I can’t speak for God, the audience definitely found them to be.
Explore MoreWhen Hamlet finishes, nearly everyone is dead. The rest, it is
said, is silence.
This Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar transports the drama to Africa, in an attempt to emphasise the tribal and fractious nature of the play.
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Shakespeare’s play of star-crossed lovers is one of unfortunate timing as much as anything else: for the Icarus Theatre Collective hitting town at the same time as the RSC makes for some unhappy comparisons.
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