GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy

GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis

GORDON PARSONS is disappointed by Kenneth Branagh’s lightweight Prospero in an ambitious rendition of the play

GORDON PARSONS is disappointed by the outdated form of a play set in Trinidad, whose subject is the switch from British to US imperial control

GORDON PARSONS salutes the apt return of Brecht’s vaudevillian cartoon drama that retains the vitality of the boxing or the circus ring

In this gung-ho moment, GORDON PARSONS has doubts about the ambiguity of a patchy production of Shakespeare’s paean to warfare

GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a biography of the Marxist intellectual and author, made from the point of view of his son

GORDON PARSONS applauds a marvellous story of human ingenuity and youthful determination, well served by a large and talented company

GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a musical — and questioning — survey of Shakespeare’s attitude to women

For GORDON PARSONS, a dramatic exploration of the abuse of young men at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre trumps Beckett, a couple of Hamlets and a bracing Candide

GORDON PARSONS relishes an adaptation of Dahl’s children’s tale, but issues a warning for the over 11-year-olds

GORDON PARSONS steps warily in between the lines of Britain’s most famous diarist

GORDON PARSONS is impressed by superb acting in a stripped down version of John Galsworthy’s epic family drama

GORDON PARSONS enjoys the wealth of wisdom and the clarity of expression from a dialogue between Chomsky and Mujica

When the spectacle of gangland violence overwhelms the text, you get the “Scottish play” far removed from RSC founding principles, muses Gordon Parsons

GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship

GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a contemporary update of a problem play that raises more questions than it answers

GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead

GORDON PARSONS is enthralled by an erudite and entertaining account of where the language we speak came from

GORDON PARSONS endures heavy rock punctuated by Shakespeare, and a delighted audience

GORDON PARSONS advises you to get up to speed on obscure ancient ceremonies to grasp this interpretation of a late Shakespearean tragi-comedy

GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today

GORDON PARSONS is disappointed by an unsubtle production of this comedy of upper middle class infidelity

GORDON PARSONS joins a standing ovation for a brilliant production that fuses Shakespeare’s tragedy with Radiohead's music

GORDON PARSONS recommends a gripping account of flawed justice in the case of Pinochet and the Nazi fugitive Walther Rauff

GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative

GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin

GORDON PARSONS meditates on the appetite of contemporary audiences for the obscene cruelty of Shakespeare’s Roman nightmare