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Americans have a tendency to overestimate how much other countries share their national preoccupations, and you can't say that's no...

The Royal Court opens its seventieth anniversary year with one of its most notorious memes, although I'm not sure I would even count Lu...

Billy Crudup has returned to the West End, which could be seen as a brave move but at least he's learned his lesson and is doing his ow...

It's not explicitly described as an autobiographical show, but Levi Kreis (book, music and lyrics) and Dave Solomon's (additional b...

Three shows into 2026 and I'm already finding the unwelcome theme of shows that are really hard to review - whether that's because ...

Former Golden Girls guest star George Clooney made his Broadway debut last year in Good Night, and Good Luck , an adaptation of one of his...

While Paranormal Activity extends in the West End, Hampstead Theatre has its own go at the ghost story with the return of writer/director ...

I'm starting 2026 with a show that's already had some upheaval, as Omar Elerian's production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo...

Middling is a bit of a harsh word to describe an entire year, isn't it? And having now written my roundup of 2025 it doesn't really...

It's technically not a seasonal show, but you could argue my last live theatre trip of 2025 is very much a traditional one, since ghost...

For the Almeida's last show of the year the audience enters the Stalls via the side door by the dressing rooms; as we don't then en...

When Stephen Sondheim died in 2021 I thought we'd see theatres falling over each other to revive some of his greatest hits, but fair pl...

London's latest version of Charles Dickens' (Chickens to his friends) A Christmas Carol comes with a disclaimer that a number of C...

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...