Being Mr Wickham review – Jane Austen’s cad meanders into old age
Adrian Lukis’s self-penned one-man show revisits the character he played in Pride and Prejudice on TV in 1995, but doesn’t discover much
May 2024
The week in theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Minority Report; Laughing Boy – review
Laughing Boy review – Connor Sparrowhawk’s story told with love and fury
March 2024
The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review
The Lonely Londoners review – supreme staging of Sam Selvon’s Windrush story
January 2024
The Good John Proctor review – Salem gears up for witch hunting
Set in the year before the events of The Crucible, the volatile children’s games that seed the later hysteria are brilliantly played but the drama is missing
October 2023
Owners review – Caryl Churchill’s 1970s housing comedy is still bleakly relevant
Often outrageously funny, Churchill’s play grimly reveals the costs and risks involved in private renting
September 2023
The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review
Infamous review – Caroline and Rose Quentin share Emma Hamilton’s scandal
June 2023
Yours Unfaithfully review – three’s a crowd in 1930s polyamory play
Laughs give way to an interrogation of monogamy and jealousy as a couple open up their marriage in Miles Malleson’s play
April 2023
Jules and Jim review – an affecting love triangle but no match for Truffaut
While there is compassion and curiosity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation, this production lacks the whirlwind quality of Roché’s novel and the film
February 2023
The Oyster Problem review – the struggle to save Flaubert from himself
In historian Orlando Figes’ rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic’s friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly
January 2023
In the Net review – a tangled, scattergun study of global crises
Misha Levkov’s dystopian debut examines migration, climate and community action but the drama is lost amid bland philosophical arguments
November 2022
The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! review – Flaubert farce flops
The cast’s hard work can’t save a confused script that struggles to mine comedy from a desperately sad story
October 2022
Something in the Air review – Peter Gill proves how brightly remembered lives can shine
Gill weaves an intricate, poignant picture of London’s queer history as two elderly men ruminate on the long-gone loves of their youth
September 2022
Love All review – Dorothy L Sayers’ battle-of-the-sexes comedy lacks bite
A bestselling romance writer leaves his wife for a glamorous new partner in this 1940 play whose gender politics feel toothless now
July 2022
The Anarchist review – an innocent sense of humour amid political unrest
The first winner of the Woven Voices prize for migrant playwrights is an open-hearted play that layers a Belarusian woman’s past and present
June 2022
Cancelling Socrates review – Howard Brenton interrogates democracy in a rich play of ideas
Fine acting and lively dialogue save this philosophical play from feeling static as it applies Athenian ideals to modern dilemmas
May 2022
Orlando review – make a date for Virginia Woolf’s puckish time traveller
Smart, funny adaptation of Woolf’s exploration of multiple selves is pint-sized but faithful, and Taylor McClaine is excellent as the titular lead
March 2022
The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review – upstaged by wedding guests
This fantasy ceremony for the modernist couple is too preoccupied with the famous men cavorting around them