12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Alan Ayckbourn's drama is painfully good when the knot of comedy and tragedy is pulled tight
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
In case of power failure: deploy the man-eating matron and a tipper-load of bricks
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
Much more than a chance to turn a royal hit film into royalties
10 February 2012 10:46 AM
A recurring figure in the world of Alan Ayckbourn is the utterly well-meaning interloper who, by his cheerful immunity from the woes of the others, wreaks emotional havoc amongst the depressed, fragile people on whom he descends.
09 February 2012 01:30 PM
Eight years ago, in their excellent Spanish Golden Age season, the RSC presented the English premiere of House of Desires, a surprising event on several levels.
08 February 2012 10:47 AM
"Is this a classroom or a circus?" asks Maria Callas at one point in Terrence McNally's 1995 piece that is partly based on the masterclasses that La Divina, her voice now wrecked, gave at the Juilliard School in New York in the early 1970s.
08 February 2012 10:28 AM
Jealousy is the first dance work presented by The Print Room, a new venue in west London.
07 February 2012 11:21 AM
The singular comic talents of Stefan Golaszewski are mostly expended on works for television - as in Him & Her, a sitcom that applies Royle Family techniques to twentysomething slackerdom with intermittently hilarious results.
06 February 2012 11:06 AM
The hotel on the other side of Lake Geneva cashed in on the delicious shamelessness of it. They hired out binoculars so that tourists could gawp pruriently at the Villa Diodati and its scandalous summer menage of the Shelleys; the "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" Byron, and Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley's half-sister, who had slept with both poets and was carrying Byron's baby.
06 February 2012 10:53 AM
It takes a while for The Rodin Project, the latest work from choreographer Russell Maliphant, to get out from under its own draperies. Inspired by the work of the French sculptor, with a fascinating cast who can do everything from hip hop to burlesque, the show spends too long in artistic poses.
05 February 2012 12:00 AM
With dazzling effects, the show goes on without Polunin the wonder boy
05 February 2012 12:00 AM
Everyone tries a bit too hard in this comic revival, but it's impossible not to warm to the cheery, good-looking confection
03 February 2012 11:01 AM
Without Warning has a brilliant location, but takes a while to make the most of it.
03 February 2012 10:57 AM
All the world is a madhouse at the Young Vic lately.
02 February 2012 11:07 AM
Frederick Ashton’s The Dream and Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth are two of The Royal Ballet’s most-loved classics, making a terrific double bill.
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