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The Lyttelton goes festive, but instead of Christmas 2025 in London we're going to early 20th Century County Mayo and what looks like a...

As regular readers will both know, Roald Dahl's children's fiction was never part of my childhood (I mainly knew him for Tales of t...

Back to @sohoplace, the theatre with a name so current it would like to tell you its theories about Scully's abduction, and a play full...

Tom Littler's theme for Christmas shows at the Orange Tree seems to be Jazz Age relocations for classic comedies, and this year he goes...

To say that Michael Bond's Paddington Bear has had a resurgence since the 2014 film would be an understatement, as would be to say a mu...

A couple of years ago Holly Race Roughan directed a Henry V in the Swanamaker that impressively reinvented the bombastic history play as a...

When you turn up to a musical you hadn't heard of before to find the audience already made up largely of people in cosplay and merch, i...

Outside of Belgium and the Netherlands, it was A View From The Bridge that really announced Ivo van Hove as a big-name director, and more ...

In the spirit of The Cornetto Trilogy being so named because of a non plot-significant ice cream being consumed in each film, I'm goin...

My second in-the-round show of the week, but instead of an intimate vag Miriam Buether has given us a huge arena in a purpose-built new th...

Why yes, I am renaming this play so that Google doesn't send an AI bot to delete my blog. Closing out the year at the Royal Court Upsta...

Sophia Griffin's debut play After Sunday takes place in the kitchen of a secure hospital, where men with a violent past are held: Some...

A new musical at the Kiln that seems to have had a lot of hype before it even opened - selling out some performances and already extending ...

The long-running annual Papatango playwrighting prize has been particularly peripatetic in the last couple of years, and I've pretty mu...

The latest group to get the jukebox musical treatment is one that feels inevitable, given the general sense of camp ridiculousness that Pet...

Othello's a part that can be played as quite a young and dynamic soldier who's risen, through skill, quickly through the ranks to b...

The last show I was able to reschedule from my most recent bout of Covid is the Menier Chocolate Factory's revival of The Producers , n...

Macbeth is one of the Shakespearean big hitters that can generally be relied upon to sell well in the RSC's biggest auditorium, so it...

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! Oh no wait, it says Beauty .    Actor Jack Holden's second career as a playwright is really picking up steam ...

It's a bit too vague for me to put my finger on as a meme of the year, but I definitely feel like there have been a lot of shows recent...