THEATRE
July/August 2014
A highly-rated Broadway hit imagining Armageddon in America makes an uneasy transfer to London
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June 2014
Like other stage depictions of the NHS, This May Hurt a Bit worships a system in desperate need of reform
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May 2014
King Charles III is a "what if" play. Mike Bartlett's counterfactuals may be improbable but they do entertain
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April 2014
Versailles trots out Keynes’s tired arguments while 1984 mistakes Winston Smith for Edward Snowden
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