The Independent
The Revenger's Tragedy: The bloody classic is given a modern twist
Joe Orton used two lines from The Revenger's Tragedy as the epigraph to What the Butler Saw – "Surely we are all mad people, and they/ Whom we think are, are not". It's easy to see why he liked the horror-comic Jacobean vision of moral anarchy....
Review: The Revenger's Tragedy, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Bloody return for anti-hero Tompkinson
Review: 'The Common Pursuit', Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Excellent! Theatres forced to withdraw misleading reviews
Financial Times
The Cherry Orchard, Chichester Festival Theatre, West Sussex
With a star-studded casting, it hardly matters that Philip Franks offers what would otherwise be a solid but unexceptional version of Chekhov’s piece, writes Ian Shuttleworth
The Times UK
Review: The Common Pursuit, Menier Chocolate Factory, London
A darkly comic tale of compromise and lost ideals in a revival of a 1984 play about a group of Cambridge undergraduates
Restorers avoid Shakespearean curse
Workmen undertaking renovation of Bard's tombstone endeavour not to fall foul of threat in verse
The Guardian
Hidden charges add 30% to cost of seat for music and theatre fans
Which? magazine calls for more transparency as report highlights 'sneaky extra' fees on ticket prices
Review: The Sound of My Voice, Citizens, Glasgow
Mark Fisher enjoys a good-looking production about a family man's alcohol-fuelled midlife crisis
Review: Breaking the Silence, Playhouse, Nottingham
Alfred Hickling likes Stephen Poliakoff's tale of his grandfather's life in post-revolutionary Russia
Daily Telegraph
Fat Pig: LaBute fails to tackle the big issues in tale about obesity
Charles Spencer reviews Fat Pig at Trafalgar Studios.
Whatsonstage.com
X-Factor’s Ray Quinn Headlines Grease from 16 Jun
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