As it’s Valentine’s weekend, it is only right to shine a focus on the best love stories from the stage. All of these different romances compel you for a range of different reasons, whether it’s the silence between the words (or sometimes lyrics), the strength in their duel performances, or the moving story and narrative […]

★★★ Two Queens stand before me—and two Margaret Thatchers too. The Queen Theatre’s revival of Moira Buffini’s popular 2013 play Handbagged takes us behind closed doors, imagining scenes which took place weekly but which nobody was ever privy to—the former Prime Minister’s weekly meetings with Queen Elizabeth—and smartly shows the two women at opposing ends […]

★★★ Mrs President is not quite what you may expect from a historical drama about a First Lady, both for better and for worse. John Ransom Phillips’ play following Mary Todd Lincoln and Mathew Brady through a series of portrait sittings has an interesting question at its heart about historical figures and the way their […]