Science on stage is quite the thing at the moment with a revival of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen opening at Hampstead Theatre next week and Lifeline, a British musical, injected into Southwark Playhouse ...

Time is a terrifying force in Romeo & Juliet, and Robert Icke's headlong production never lets playgoers forget that fact.

If ever there was a piece that epitomised the view that villains are infinitely more fun than heroes, it would be Pierre ...

There was something incongruous about seeing Basement Jaxx in a venue best known for regularly playing host to the likes of ...

Thomas H Green has lately been noting a “mellow production flatness” in modern pop and he’s really nailed a ubiquitous ...

The baldness of the titles the writer-director Stefan Golaszewski gives his TV series — Him & Her, Mum, Marriage and now ...

The catchline for the staging is that a real-life mother and son play the sex-mad mother and drug-addicted son of the drama, the subtle and gamine Lia Williams and the well-regarded Joshua James, but ...

Sergei Loznitsa's historical drama Two Prosecutors, which he adapted from the novella written by the onetime Gulag prisoner ...

This is the last theartsdesk on Vinyl before Record Store Day. Our RSD Special will arrive on theartsdesk Thurs 16th April.

About a dacade ago and then again last year, Seattle’s proto-grungers, Melvins and Birmingham’s grindcore originators, Napalm ...

The Downfall of Huw Edwards does what it says on the tin. We watch the fêted newsreader from initial online contact with a 17 ...

Tamerlano, tyrannical Emperor of the Tartars, is a burger-munching boor with a golf-habit, a bulbous belly and a crashing ...