Writer Mike Bartlett is just about the hottest name in theatrical circles at the moment so it’s quite a coup for Greenwich Theatre to be...

Drama, comedy, music, dance and one of the world’s most adored children’s classics – there really is something for everyone at Greenwich...

Visionary film-maker Derek Jarman became the ultimate icon of iconoclasm before his life was cruelly cut short by AIDS. Yet he packed...

It was a brave choice for Greenwich Theatre to take on Alarms & Excursions, Michael Frayn’s comedy about our ever-growing reliance on...

A real test of how good a panto is to try it out at 10 o’clock on a freezing November morning more than a month before Christmas in front...

1 The Queen Of Hearts, Greenwich Theatre till 2 January. Legendary dame Andrew Pollard is back live with his own take on a traditional...

Legendary panto dame Andrew Pollard is heading to Greenwich Theatre once again for the festive season – oh, yes he is! After a year’s...

How does a writer create a fury-driven polemic without seeming to batter an audience into submission? The line that separates engagement...

As we arrived at Greenwich Theatre to see Tiger Lady we were greeted by the cast wandering around the auditorium offering shots,...

After what feels like an eternity, live performance is back at Greenwich Theatre this autumn in a season that features drama, comedy,...

They may be 40 to 50 years old but, as a brilliant new Greenwich Theatre production of four of Caryl Churchill’s early plays reveals,...

Live performance is back! And the highlight of Greenwich Theatre’s season is a quadruple bill of brilliant short plays by living legend...

The After-Dinner Joke, Caryl Churchill’s great satire on corporate philanthropism, may be 43 years old but shockingly, as director James...

At a time of universal lockdown gloom, Greenwich Theatre is doing its bit to raise our wilting spirits with a mainly online season of...

The Christmas lockdown forced Greenwich Theatre to close its doors days before its production of the children’s classic The Wolves Of...

The entertainment sector is in crisis – but the dedicated armies of artists whose work so enriches our lives are determined to carry on...

As the arts face a battle for their very survival, Greenwich Theatre has defiantly launched an autumn season of live performances to keep...

Steven Berkoff’s play The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia could have been written for lockdown – an exchange of 39 claustrophobically...

Covid-19 has forced creatives across the arts to find new forms of expression. And Greenwich Theatre’s latest contribution to online...

Superstar actor Dame Helen Mirren is to appear in a groundbreaking new production at Greenwich Theatre this month. The 74-year-old, who...

Apart from Hamlet, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s most quotable play, containing some of his finest soliloquies and packed with phrases...

It’s a brave theatrical performance that begins with the show’s narrator declaring gleefully: Theatre is dead. Such bravado could have...

Splendid Productions lived up to their name when they brought their spellbinding version of Dr Faustus to Greenwich Theatre, ingeniously...

Our modern idea of Christmas is almost entirely down to Charles Dickens – he’s why the iconography of the festive season remains so...

One of the reasons audiences adore Pixar films such as Toy Story is that they are child-friendly fantasies shot through with whip-smart...

There’s a lot of really good stuff in Charlotte Green’s play Lest We Forget about the disgraceful treatment of black British troops who...

Two Lady Macbeths, two Ophelias, a stage split into four quadrants of a circle each visible only to a quarter of the audience, the cast...

If you love live performance, book a seat for BKLYN The Musical at Greenwich Theatre because the actors and band are as good as any I’ve...

Anton Chekhov may be best known as a chronicler of tragedy but even amid the despair he will always find moments of comedy. It’s even...

One of the great questions posed by art is this: What is real? It is the theme of The Outbound Project’s latest stagework MEH, which is...

This year’s Greenwich Book Festival fulfilled the basic requirement of any event designed to promote the arts – it truly offered...

You need to be at the top of your game to make a success of Salomé, Oscar Wilde’s challenging symbolist prose-poem about the beheading of...

I thought Sherlock Holmes was dead, finally laid to rest by the definitive interpretations of Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett and Benedict...

We Brits love to put our sporting heroes on pedestals – but we also love to see them fall off. And few have done it quite so...

Britain today finds itself horribly divided over Brexit. A century ago the country was also horribly divided - but the reason then was...

The tragedy of Gaza and the West Bank is one of the most contentious issues of our times, which makes it an ideal subject for dramatists....

What possible connection is there between Brexit, Donald Trump, dentistry, TV academic Mary Beard and Christmas? The answer – of course –...

There was a lot of audience laughter during Michael Frayn’s philosophical comedy Here at Greenwich Theatre. It wasn’t the gales of...

There weren’t any of those swinging Disney songs in Greenwich Theatre’s production of The Jungle Book but that didn’t stop it being...

It’s self-evident that a great play can be ruined by a below-par cast – no doubt we all have any number of examples in our memories. But...

After the grisly horrors at the heart of Edward II and Lord Of The Flies, the decision by company-in-residence Lazarus to finish their...

Ever think acting is easy? Then you should have seen the performance of Lord Of The Flies that I saw at Greenwich Theatre. The young cast...

Many satirise Donald Trump but most fail because the man’s so homophobic, so mysogenistic, so racist, so paranoid and so egotistical that...

There was a great opening to Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy Edward II at Greenwich Theatre. To an electronica soundtrack the cast, in...