by Hannah Gilkes

In 1995 Hanif Kureishi looked back and saw the beginnings of a trend that was to prove prophetic. The Black Album follows the young Shahid from Kent as he starts university in London, …

by Miguel Cullen
The truest sense of what is real and what is fake can be gleaned, as anyone who had an awkward moment making conversation with trick or treaters knows, from the crystalline perspective of …

by Lou Broadbent

Prepare for your jaw to hurtle towards the drug- and knicker-strewn floor. ‘The Present’, currently enjoying its first UK revival by Good Night Out Presents at the Cock Tavern Theatre on Kilburn High …

by Ruth Hargreaves

This comedy double bill, produced by theatre company Good Night Out Presents (GNOP), is simultaneously refreshing and intoxicating and demonstrates that the relatively young Cock Tavern Theatre group is well worth considering for …

by Tristan Summerscale
This is surely the sort of production that the directors of the Old Vic were hoping for when they appointed Kevin Spacey as artistic director in 2003. A hugely ambitious tour, a Chekhov …

by Jemimah Steinfeld

Basildon is the fifth play from Fringe veteran Peter Hamilton, whose previous theatrical repertoire includes Switchboard at Theatre 503 and The Appearance of Christ in the East End, which was awarded Critic’s Choice …

by Katy Darby

The Marquis de Sade – aristocrat, philosopher, pornographer, blasphemer and pervert – is a figure who has fascinated writers from Angela Carter to Roland Barthes, and he has been put on the stage …

by Katy Darby

The coming-out play is a subgenre unto itself these days (perhaps even a little passé) and writer Jason Charles seems to be well aware of this. Perhaps that’s why the promising poster of …

by Hannah Gilkes

The contrasts in this production are immediate; sterile unhappiness versus Don John’s vibrancy and overt sexuality. There is very little doubt over which will triumph, particularly in the run up to the interval when …

by Jemimah Steinfeld

England People Very Nice by Richard Bean
National Theatre, The Olivier
South Bank, SE1 9PX
Box office 020 7452 3000
Until 30 April. Tickets from £10
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Richard Bean has been …

by Ruth McGarahan

Cradle Me
The Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
By Simon Vinnicombe
Wednesday, 1 October – Saturday, 25 October 2008
Tuesday to Saturday Evenings at 7.30pm.
Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 3.00pm (except Saturday, 4 October).
Tickets …

by Hannah Gilkes

The Walworth farce, The Cottesloe Theatre, South Bank
By Enda Walsh
Directed by Mikel Murfi
Until November 29th
Tickets £16/£11
Monday to Saturday 7pm, Saturday matinees 3pm
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/37769/productions/the-walworth-farce.html
With a play within a play Enda Walsh tests …