In 1967, when Relatively Speaking first played to audiences, it opened to a roar of approval from the critics, and the first offering of now acclaimed playwright Alan Ayckbourn set him on the path to success. Now, 46 years later, the comedy is back in the West End at the Wyndham’s theatre, offering a night [...]

First seen at the Bush Theatre in 1993, Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing is an incredibly funny yet poignant depiction of two teenage boys as they come to terms with their sexuality. As relevant today as it was when it premiered, directed by Nikolai Foster, Beautiful Thing is a brilliantly scripted, unforgettable coming-of-age story with a soundtrack [...]

Every so often, perhaps once in a generation, an actor can seem to have been born to play a role. Sir Laurence Olivier as Richard III, for instance. In The Hothouse, on now at Trafalgar Studios, the opposite is true: the role of Roote was born for theatre royalty Simon Russell Beale to play, despite [...]

It took me a while to warm to Maria Friedman’s production of Merrily We Roll Along. At first I didn’t quite get it. I was bemused rather than enthralled, as song after song appeared to fall by the wayside, seemingly surplus to requirements. I remembered reading that when Merrily debuted on the Broadway stage in [...]