This production, at the 340-seat Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, was enough to convince me that’s an ill-deserved state of affairs – it’s a play that deserves to be better known. Written around ...

You could perhaps call it Chekhov unplugged, or even Anton goes acoustic. Either way, this debut of the great Russian dramatist at the Globe, in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, feels like it’s ...

Not for the first time down by the Thames, genders are flipped, Cymbeline the Queen of a matriarchal Britain, resisting the demands for tribute from a machismo-sodden Italy. Her daughter, Innogen, is ...

It’s a pitch-perfect accomplishment. The candles of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse lights Oli Townsend’s designs with a singular atmosphere, highlighting the gorgeous velvets, wools, and taffeta ...

It’s impossible to be ambivalent towards that word, that country, indeed that idea, one so very similar to our own, yet so very different. You feel it in Moscow, where I spent a week exactly 40 years ...

The list goes on. It’s an odd choice for the Sam Wanamaker, but one supposes they must get bored of playing the big hits all the time and fancied themselves a challenge. The plot in this ...

This rarely-staged late Shakespearean romance gets a bold, vivid production from Jennifer Tang that matches its hectic mix of comedy, horror and absurdity. King Cymbeline here becomes a Queen ...

Anton Chekhov’s suffering Russian gentlefolk sit so well in the wooden, candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse it’s a wonder he’s not been staged here before. And this particular tale ...

The Sam Wanamaker theatre has to be the perfect venue for this play because its intimate, candlelit atmosphere makes it feel like we are in drawing room with the characters. There’s no singling ...

This rarely-staged late Shakespearean romance gets a bold, vivid production from Jennifer Tang that matches its hectic mix of comedy, horror and absurdity. King Cymbeline here becomes a Queen (Martina ...