Expectancy’s in the air for laughs and revelations in Alan Aykbourn’s bittersweet 1976 tragicomedy, but Michael Cabot’s touring production misses the mark – delivering neither to the audience. Read my full Broadway World review here
Simon Russell Beale is superb in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s excellent new revival of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play. Read my full Broadway World review here
Former Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Longhurst swaps war for Italian football in a new, exuberant Royal Shakespeare Theatre adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. Read my full Broadway World review here
Writer El Blackwood’s Tending, produced by Another Theatre, is a three-hander based on more than 700 verbatim interviews with NHS nurses over a two-year period. Read my full Broadway World review here
So many adore The Da Vinci Code (excluding those who claim it’s badly written and historically inaccurate), I thought the theatre version would be a dead cert. Read my full Broadway World review here
Writer, director, producer and performer Rowan Armitt-Brewster on how classic slapstick looks easy – but it isn’t. Read my full Broadway World interview here
A Brief Case of Crazy is quite the ride – a mash-up of comedy, mime, slapstick, romance, puppetry, dance and object manipulation. Read my full Broadway World review here
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo lead a first-rate cast in a raw, visceral, brutal and ultimately hopeful show filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Read my full BWW review here
Here are some of my favourite picks from the past year – and what I’d like to see in 2025. Read my BroadwayWorld article here
Sian Phillips is superb in a new pairing of Terence Rattigan’s one-act plays at Theatre Royal Bath. Read my full Broadway World review here
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