Keith Mckenna

London reviewer

Reviews

Christine Gomes as Charlotte with Nick Blakeley as Eric, Matthew Pidgeon as Charles and Kate Copeland as Virginia

The White Card

Claudia Rankine

Northern Stage with Leeds Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Soho Theatre in association with HOME Manchester

Soho Theatre

21 June–16 July 2022

Aaron Douglas, Frankie Bertoletti, Hassan Maarfi (Orsino)

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

East London Shakespeare Festival

Fellowship Square, Waltham Forest

23–26 June 2022

Brían F O'Byrne as Torvald and Noma Dumezwen as Nora

A Dolls House Part 2

Lucas Hnath

Donmar Warehouse

10 June–6 August 2022

Bangers

Danusia Samal

Cardboard Citizens and Soho Theatre

Soho Theatre upstairs

14 June–2 July 2022

Dictating to the Estate

Nathaniel McBride

Special Measures

Maxilla Social Club

31 May–12 June 2022

Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]

Harry Hill & Steve Brown

Park Theatre in association with Nicholson Green Productions

Park Theatre (Park 200)

2 June–9 July 2022

Victor Alli as Jim, Tom Glynn-Carney as the younger Tom, Paul Hilton as the older Tom, Lizzie Annis as Laura, Amy Adams as Amanda

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Second Half productions

Duke of York’s Theatre

23 May–27 August 2022

Emily Lloyd-Saini as Helen , Michael Grady-Hall as the older Jack , Kelly Gough as the older Agnes, Daniel Millar as Eddie , Anne-Marie Duff as Constance and Stuart McQuarrie. as Alistair

The House of Shades

Beth Steel

Almeida Theatre

7 May–18 June 2022

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Globe Theatre

3 May–10 September 2022

Maite Jauregui as the woman & Danny Horn as the man

We’ll Dance on the Ash of the Apocalypse

Melissa-Kelly Franklin

Bluestocking Productions & Women’s Writes in association with Park Theatre

Park 90

3–7 May 2022

Features

Jojo Morrall as Rosa Parks in Chickenshed's Blowin' in the Wind

Black Lives Matter on stage

1 July 2020

Keith McKenna revisits some of the plays performed in recent years that are linked in various ways to the Black Lives Matter protests.