Alexander Cohen - Page 2

Few directors are as comfortable helming a sparkly winter panto as they are a psychologically gruelling Sarah Kane play. But few directors have credits as varied as Tinuke Craig. A former Bayliss Associate at The Old Vic, she is now making her RSC directorial debut with Richard Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, a restoration comedy written in 1777. 247 years later – what can it tell us today?

It takes its time to warm up. But when this American four hander stretches its dramatic muscles a pummelling emotional workout results

Is this one mnemonic to forget?

Persevere with its mercilessness and you will be richly rewarded

Jude Christian's new production playfully inverts Shakespeare's misogyny

Katie Mitchell returns to the Royal Court with a curious but dense adaption of Maggie Nelson's poetry

Good writing doesn’t have to explode off the stage, but can gently lull you with buckets of charm and laser point focus.

Terry’s Richard is a hyper masculine misogynist grunting, lumbering, and bruising his way to the throne.

Theatre at it's most ruthlessly elusive.

Sparks fly in this plucky grime infused play, but it doesn't quite catch fire

An excellent cast are let down by self-obsessed direction.

It ought to echo with eerie prescience in 2024 as an ever-closer prophecy for an age where AI and algorithms will dictate the minutiae of our lives. But David Haig's new stage adaption is more like a cyberpunk-themed orgy at Printworks.

Nadine Sierra’s enthralling central performance helms this nerve-jangling revival.

A cathartic and powerful moment, a veinous fist unclenching.

Aesthetically malnourished, London Tide lacks the lustrous life blood that so warmly floods through the veins of Dickens’s literary world.

Ian McKellen is a mesmerizingly athletic Falstaff in Robert Icke's iconoclastic fusion of Henry IV parts 1 and 2

Lovingly snug, like you’ve been invited to into the warm for a cup of tea and a biscuit on a rainy day.

This slathered-in-schmaltz hagiography is like watching the Zone of Interest: you know the disturbing stuff is always just out of view.

An ambitious but flawed character study

Tyrell Williams' award winning play is triumphantly promoted up a league to the West End after two runs at the Bush Theatre