In My Name

The widespread faithlessness of British society is set against the burning certainties of religious fundamentalism

The Portrait of a Lady / A Doll’s House

Catherine McCormack is unquestionably fine both as Isabel the ingénue and Isabel the wife in Peter Hall’s production

Heartbreak House

It's a slow-burning play, there are just enough bits of Shavian wit and the odd moment of business to maintain our attention

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Breaking up is never easy, but it can be funny, according to this light-hearted, spontaneous skit show

Nocturne

The effect of Adam Rapp's play is of vast, insupportable heartbreak distilled into the sound of music and words

Alan Ayckbourn: my love-hate thing

He has been writing plays for more than 50 years, but the eminent British playwright still distrusts most theatre

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - The Sunday Times Review

"Reimagining" it for those aged six and over basically means simplifying it, but the piece has been intelligently edited

Hangover Square - The Sunday Times Review

A bit less theatricality would have made this a tighter bit of theatre; trusting in the story itself, mediocre as it is

Faeries - The Sunday Times Review

The dialogue is neat and often witty, even if references to doodlebugs, Churchill and why war exists may be beyond the youngest

The Female of the Species - The Sunday Times Review

If you’re going to take the mickey out of our leading feminist, you at least need to make it funny

Sunset Boulevard

This is Sunset Boulevard stripped down — or as stripped-down as Lloyd Webber on Hollywood will allow

The Frontline

Ché Walker’s new play is a great laugh, fast-paced and buoyantly acted, making its heavier points briefly and sincerely

Zorro - the Sunday Times review

Based on the children’s book by Isabel Allende, who is one of the show’s producers — and clearly a wily businesswoman

Street Scene

John Fulljames’s revival can’t quite decide whether it is an urban Porgy and Bess or an aspiring Broadway hit

Jonny Woo

Charismatic and confident, Woo resists cosiness or anything personal as he runs a gamut from Shakespeare to Barbra Streisand

Kids Week tickets go on sale

Theatreland in London’s West End is opening itself up to children to see what goes on behind the scenes

Zorro the Musical

Stephen Clark’s book and Christopher Renshaw’s production have the merit of not taking themselves too seriously

The Female of the Species

I must admit laughed at some genuinely amusing lines, while acknowledging that the debate isn’t all that trenchant

Sunset Boulevard

It has a car chase, a swimming pool and a crazy silver screen legend as its lead character. It's a lot of theatre

Francesca Annis: the great unknown moves on

'I've never wanted to be a great big star,' Annis says. She's more bothered, post-Ralph Fiennes, about living on her own