If 2024 wasn’t quite a vintage year for theatre, there was plenty to applaud. Though the full figures aren’t yet in, palpably ...

The lighting designed by Jon Clark deserves a special mention. Especially lovely to notice are the edgings of light drawn ...

In the future I’ll be glad to say that I saw their Tempest. I just wish I could say it was better. Theatre Royal Drury Lane, ...

The action seems to be set on the barren grey slopes of an alien planet, costumes are a mixture of modern and sci-fi and the ...

Heavily billed and marketed as Sigourney Weaver’s West End debut, the Jamie Lloyd Company’s production of Shakespeare’s The ...

Shakespeare must have relished the opportunities brought by the indoor Blackfriars Theatre in 1611: sound magnified in a way ...

As achingly monotone as it is aggressively monochrome.

The Tempest is perhaps best understood as a final conjuring by Shakespeare, a kind of melancholic farewell to the magical ...

Theatre Royal Drury Lane is to offer a three-course pre-theatre dining menu, claiming to be the only West End venue to give theatregoers this option ahead of a performance. The evening dinner, ...

The American A-lister makes her West End debut in the role of Prospero, but does Jamie Lloyd's sci-fi staging captivate the ...

If this production at Theatre Royal Drury Lane is anything to go by, Jamie Lloyd's bag of tricks is getting worryingly empty ...

Designer Soutra Gilmour crafts a vast sail of silk that billows above the stage, enveloping – and unfortunately upstaging – ...