theatre - East End Review

Julia Pascal stages the camp France chose to forget

An intellectual, an artist and a teenage communist meet in a Pyrenean camp, played by a cast of six

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Close up of Julia Pascal smiling in a restaurant

Death Note: The Musical review— all belt, no beckoning

A long-promised staging of the manga phenomenon reaches the Barbican with vibrant visuals and a punishing score — but its death gods barely haunt

Author: Gabriel Wilding

An ensemble on stage. A young man is lit up in the centre, people stand around him in black clothes with umbrella's under a futuristic skyline.

Philosophy of the World review - Better than The Beatles, worse than a headache

In Bed With My Brother return to The Yard with a Shaggs tribute as ramshackle as its subject — which may or may not be the point

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Philosophy of the World review - Better than The Beatles, worse than a headache

'It's not a play': the Andover Estate in its own words

Verbatim theatre, grassroots storytelling or something with no name yet?

Author: Sarah Birch

Exterior of "Andover Minimarket Off Licence" - there is fruit outside in boxes and the shop exterior is painted blue

A Fine Idea review - the ambition is admirable; the basement, less forgiving

Christine Bacon's expansive new play at the Arcola, drawn from Jason Hickel's The Divide, takes aim at 80 years of 'international development' — and is very nearly saved by a strong cast from a script that wants to do everything at once

Author: Gabriel Wilding

A production still from A Fine Idea. Grace is wearing a bandana and smiling to someone off camera

Under the Shadow review - Babak Anvari's chilling film is transplanted to Almeida Street

This stage adaptation of this 2016 Persian-language horror is sharp on the politics of women's lives in wartime Tehran — and oddly literal-minded about its Djinn. Lelia Farzad leads a strong cast; the parlour tricks let them down

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Under the Shadow review - Babak Anvari's chilling film is transplanted to Almeida Street

'Tragedy proves to be eternal': Iphigenia, Arcola review

Serdar Biliş reframes the Greek classic through EarPods, satin, and silver. With a seasoned cast and raw, real-world interviews, the Arcola’s Iphigenia successfully bridges the gap between past and present.

Author: Gabriel Wilding

Park Theatre's 'Whodunnit [Unrehearsed]' is back with major celebrity line-up

Gillian Anderson, Emma Thompson and Sandi Toksvig are making a return to the Finsbury Park venue

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Park Theatre's 'Whodunnit [Unrehearsed]' is back with major celebrity line-up

'It's an uplifting show about how everyone you know is going to die' — 'Age Is A Feeling' at Soho Theatre Walthamstow

This one-woman show might be about death, but its creator — Haley McGee — wants audiences to feel hopeful

Author: Lizzie McAllister

'It's an uplifting show about how everyone you know is going to die' — 'Age Is A Feeling' at Soho Theatre Walthamstow

'The Marvellous Adventures of Mary Seacole' returns to the Rosemary Branch Theatre

Written by the late Cleo Sylvestre, the performance pays homage to a ‘brilliant, trailblazing pioneer’

Author: Lizzie McAllister

'The Marvellous Adventures of Mary Seacole' returns to the Rosemary Branch Theatre

'Going to the club and bumping into people who've seen your show is crazy' — the young director behind the Arcola's 'Bitch Boxer'

Prime Isaac is only 26, but is already making a mark on London’s theatrical scene

Author: Lizzie McAllister

'Going to the club and bumping into people who've seen your show is crazy' — the young director behind the Arcola's 'Bitch Boxer'

American Psycho, review - a 'parting tour de force'

The musical version was Rupert Goold’s first smash production as artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and he now revisits this dark, satirical commentary on 1980s corporate greed

Author: Sarah Birch

Jack Butterworth and Arty Froushan in American Psycho, Almeida Theatre. Photograph: Marc Brenner