Read our review of *The Tempest*, now in performances at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse to 12 April. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

This is Tim Crouch’s Tempest as much as it is Shakespeare’s. Admittedly, for anybody unfamiliar with this most fantastical of the Bard’s late romances, it probably isn’t an ideal introduction, but ...

Tim Crouch brings his idiosyncratic style to The Tempest, and it’s a match made in theatre heaven. Here, heaven is the Sam ...

The misbehaviour continues with Rachana Jadhav's maximalist set design, which is laden with puppets, masks and treasures – and secret disco lights, usually forbidden in this authentic candlelit space.

Some spells are cast by this production, in which the director plays Prospero, but it also wearingly replays the same tricks ...

Tim Crouch is one of our great theatrical alchemists. Most famously – in his conceptual show An Oak Tree – he creates a ...

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced additional events running alongside the October – April Season, which features A Midsummer Night’s Dream (15 November – 31 January), Pinocchio (29 November – 4 ...

Do you have favourite theatres in London? Sam Wanamaker is one of mine. It’s a tiny indoor theatre next door to the ...

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, now at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre on London’s Southbank, might seem to make for oddly out-of-season fare. Yet the play itself conjures calendric confusion and ...

This is an intriguing reworking of what was probably Shakespeare’s last play about Prospero, the deposed former Duke of Milan ...