Manon strives for perfection

Manon is a risk-taker’s ballet. There has to be abandon in the duets MacMillan created for Manon and her lover Des Grieux.

Mine is all about motherhood

Mine is a sensitively handled panorama of emotions about what it means to be part of a family and to want to create a new one.

Fact and fiction in Radioplay

It takes an Irish actor banished to remotest Cornwall in childhood to cook up a monologue as witty and fanciful as Radioplay.

Southern poetry floods In the Red and Brown Water

In the Red and Brown Water indicates Tarell Alvin McCraney’s willingness to toy with the conventions of stagecraft.

Walliams dazzles in No Man’s Land

No Man’s Land is chilling, thrilling Pinter in dream-land, relieved by flashes of sardonic amusement.

Bright ideas in Broken Space Season

Ever-enterprising Artistic Director Josie Rourke has commissioned short pieces from 10 playwrights on the loose theme of darkness and light.

David Tennant labours in lost cause

Having been drenched in critics’ superlatives for his Hamlet, David Tennant takes on a riskier proposition by trying his hand at Love’s Labour Lost.

Teenage rampage in Lord of the Flies

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Pilot Theatre Company has revived its award-winning production of Lord of the Flies.

Serious laughter in the master farce Norman Conquests

This assured revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s masterful 1973 trilogy, showing in London for the first time in 34 years, usefully reminds us to take the laughter very seriously.

Walliams dazzles in No Man’s Land

No Man’s Land is chilling, thrilling Pinter in dream-land, relieved by flashes of sardonic amusement.