This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience

Brontë’s lines anchor the frenetic action in Emma Rice’s over-the-top production

A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook

Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring

Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine

Anne McElvoy gives kudos to Cush Jumbo, who has a star’s ability to rise above the inadequacies and shine bright

West End openings of Constellations and Cinderella offer stage-starved audiences some magic

How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle

What is the direction of theatre for the next season?

Bertolt Brecht’s didacticism puts off a lot of people who are sympathetic to a marxist world view