In My Name

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

The Norman Conquests/ No Man's Land- the Sunday Times reviews

The sitcom stars of Ayckbourn’s trilogy conquer all, leaving Pinter looking pallid

Radio Golf, Tricycle, NW6 - the Sunday Times review

If only Wilson were still alive, observing Barack Obama striding towards the White House

Memory, Pleasance, N7 - the Sunday Times review

This is a harsh, shocking and moving play: it is precisely the extraordinary restraint of Terry Hands’s direction that gives it its sense of...

Aristo, Minerva, Chichester : The Sunday Times reviews

Imagine a Greek tragedy written by Tom Wolfe and you’ll get an idea of Martin Sherman’s new play

Friendship and opera

Two grand old men of letters, Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney, on friendship and a joint opera - The Burial at Thebes

The Broken Space Season

Sea Wall by Simon Stephens is as tender and unsettling as anything he has done, it's a gripping story of love and loss

Radio Golf

Conditions have changed for black Americans, but Wilson's concern is what has been forfeited during the ascent

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The creation falls between several stools - not menacing enough; too slow in attempting to build tension

The Norman Conquests

This is a fine revival by Matthew Warchus of Alan Ayckbourn's ambitious, daring and emotionally punchy 1974 trilogy

Memory

Terry Hands returns to London with a contentious examination of the parallels between Nazi Germany and the Palestinian plight today

New York City is playing Mindgames with me

The cast of the off-Broadway play Mindgame are appalled to find that Ken Russell has never directed a play in his life

Wuthering Heights

Indhu Rubasingham’s professional but impersonal production doesn't have anything to add to its source material

Ralph Fiennes shrinks Oedipus

One of our greatest actors discusses the role of Oedipus, that he is taking on, with one of our most astute psychoanalysts

Girl with a Pearl Earring - the Sunday Times review

Compellingly acted and stays faithful to the spirit of Vermeer in a number of ways

Come Dancing - the Sunday Times review

if it isn’t quite strong enough to support the melodramatic bits, its heart is in the right place

My Must-Sees: Saskia Reeves

Saskia Reeves is in Complicite’s A Disappearing Number at the Barbican, EC2, from Fri until Nov 1

Creditors, Donmar Warehouse - the Sunday Times review

These are A-list performances, pulsating with pain and hard as diamonds

Waste, Almeida, N1 - the Sunday Times review

Granville Barker’s Waste is 101 years old, but still a vote-winner for Christopher Hart

Tarell Alvin McCraney: out of the hoods

Hip writer Tarrell Alvin McCraney has left Miami vices behind