Author: mstjl

With its blend of family drama, astrophysics and bee-keeping, Charlotte Jones’s comedy Humble Boy was a hit both in London and New York after it

Despite the poetic beauty of Tennessee Williams’s writing, at the height of his success, his dramas were rooted in reality, whether a St Louis apartment

Set in the world of theatre, Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-winning film Fanny & Alexander is ideally suited to a stage adaption. Inspired by his own childhood,

A devout Jewish man dreams of escaping poverty and the oppression of anti-semitism while planning the future of his five children alongside a beloved wife.

As in A Woman of No Importance which came before in Classic Spring’s Wilde season, Lady Windermere’s Fan demonstrates an understanding of women trying to

According to the title of Mikhail Durnenkov’s new play, the war has not yet started but, for its disparate characters, conflict is always bubbling beneath

It is 43 years since Steven Berkoff blasted onto the stage with his play East. Production company Atticist has now revived it at the King’s

A haunting melancholy pervades much of Conor McPherson’s work, from his first big success The Weir to The Night Alive, and in Girl from the

When Rita, Sue and Bob Too first burst onto the Royal Court’s stage in 1982, it was praised for its “scabrous comedy” and “hilarious” writing,

George Bernard Shaw ominously subtitled his 1910 play Misalliance as a “debate in one sitting”, preparing us for a wordy intellectual platform of ideas lacking

Daisy Pulls It Off ran for three years in the West End (and was one of the first shows I ever saw at the theatre) so

Peter Pan is well established as a Christmas favourite but creator JM Barrie explored alternate worlds in another much lesser-known play, Dear Brutus. First performed