‘Ghosts’ play review

London-based readers have just a fortnight to catch Richard Eyre’s production of Ghosts, before it vacates the Almeida to make way for Matt Smith’s American Psycho.

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‘Pope Joan’ play review

“Feminism always gets associated with being a radical movement – good. It should be.” So said Canadian actress Ellen Page in a recent Guardian interview, and now another spiky actress, Sherlock’s Louise Brealey, throws her fist in the air with her first play, Pope Joan.

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‘The Pride’ play review

In a world where Russia has apparently been flicking through the Maggie Thatcher Manual for Disposing of Gays, a West End revival of Alexei Kaye Campbell’s rainbow-flag-waving debut play The Pride seems an appropriate response.

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‘Birdsong’ play review

You’ve been here before. The Great War, fast approaching its centenary, has inspired many hundreds of stories, novels, plays, films and – yes – poems.

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