This big-budget production is built to deliver calculated pizzazz.

Helen McCrory spills her heart out in an otherwise-flawed production.

Caroline Byrne's serious production shows a woman struggling under the weight of patriarchy.

Turning the shock value up doesn't give this production the impact that this material once had.

This text is full of tricky, thorny material, and this production fails to untangle it.

Old and new come together in a bold, dizzying swirl.

Nick Payne's new play about a spouse robbed of her memory is both agonising and profound.

Hugh Bonneville returns to the theatre to take on one of Ibsen's more political works.

James Fenton's clever adaptation pairs amusing absurdity with moments of quiet grace.

The RSC takes us to a modern African state for Hamlet's latest psychological unravelling.