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This bare-bones production lacks the theatrical flesh to bulk up the sense of grandeur.

Strong performances carry this cringe-inducing family feud.

An inorganic melodrama that stuffs too many themes together.

Composer Laura Bowler and Librettist Laura Lomas' new opera navigates the psychological landscape of sexual assault

A tumultuous portrait of a family divided by religion and modernity

A disorientating tone straddles the theatrical no-man's land between satire and seriousness.

Worlds collide in a thrilling new opera from Tom Coult and Alice Birch.

A narrative spider's web that traps its audience and preys upon their naivety. See what our critic thought! Read the review. 

The theatricality of gender takes centre stage in Paul Miller's take on Marivaux’s 1724 comedy.

Cally's life is turned upside down when she embarks on an affair with her childhood crush

Richard Jones' new production drips with bacchanalian flare. But something is missing from the allure.

Blood and guts in Ancient Rome, Atri Banerjee’s production of Jean Racine’s historical tragedy is no Roman Holiday.

Read our critic's review. Gandhi's assassin tells his story across the backdrop of India's struggle for independence.

Hot off the stage of the Donmar Warehouse where she starred opposite Kit Harrington in Henry V, Melissa Johns is a disabled actress whose iCloud account was hacked in 2018, leading to the release of intimate photos. Her play, Snatched, is autobiographical, documenting her struggle as a disabled woman to come to terms with societal expectations of sexuality and femininity.

A new all-star cast establish a solid dynamic, but all their effort is undermined by the play's mind-boggling, twist ending.

Mark Ravenhill directs a new version of La bohème with an LGBT spin that does not do enough to engage in its themes.

David Eldridge thrusts the agony and the ecstasy of middle class struggles into the limelight in his new play at the National Theatre's Dorfman stage. Let's see what BWW's critic had to say...

Read our critic's review - A post-modern tint cannot save this 1938 play from feeling stuck in the past.

Deconstructing modern black masculinity, 'For Black Boys Who have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy' is a poetic meditation on the discord between expectations of black men and their reality.

A clowning cocktail of Orwell, Beckett, and Kundera, Project Dictator pokes fun at the overdone 'State of the Nation' play, instead crafting something far more unique, intelligent, and disturbing.