LAURA KING is dazzled by the ex-Blur frontman's Chinese opera that's based on an ancient Tang dynasty manuscript.
HAVING seen a production of Romeo And Juliet in which the lovers didn't die, I was well prepared for anything that Frantic Assembly's artistic directors Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett might offer.
EVERYBODY loves a good scandal and David Hare's new play is full of it.
A NEW piece of theatre can sometimes be so ambitious that it can turn out to be too much for the story underneath to carry.
ROBERT TANITCH finds Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy of plays surprising, clever and often hilarious.
ACROBATIC monks are go! This production delivers exactly what's expected of it, with luminous costumes, beautiful sets and incredibly skilled and athletic martial arts masters who perform perfectly timed group displays.
IT'S 1928 and the graveyard shift in a seedy New York hotel. Night clerk Charlie Hughes (Jack Courtney) is whiling away the lonely hours until he can knock off and resume some semblance of life when Erie Smith (Eric Colvin) steps into his life.
ROBERT TANITCH sees a challenging production that blurs the lines between dance, theatre and personal politics.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, is the author of The Brothers Size, which made a big impression at the Young Vic last year.
THE surreal, gothic world created by Edward Gorey has met its match in Hoipolloi as the company's loose adaptation of The Doubtful Guest ably captures the US illustrator's sense of mischief and nonsense.