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Oscar Wilde's famous comedy about an imaginary friend who seems to have a busier social life than any of the "real" character...

Maybe we should change the theory that most playwrights secretly just want to write a ghost story, and accept that all  of them do. America...

The latest winter season at Shakespeare's Globe will include a major playwright who's never appeared in the Swanamaker before, but ...

Taking two Netflix stars closely associated with Madrid and Paris and throwing them together in a third European city, Bess Wohl's Barc...

After being very disappointing in 2023, Hampstead Theatre has been getting back into my good books this year, and a strong autumn season co...

Following Beru Tessema's well-received House of Ife , the playwright returns to the Bush for another story with family at its heart, bu...

Poor the Jodie Whittaker, they keep doing her dirty. I still maintain, based on what I've seen of her in interviews, that she could hav...

The Donald and Margot Warehouse celebrates the start of its Timothy Sheader era by hiking the price of my preferred seats by almost 150%, s...

For the second week in a row Phill and I went to a show we'd had tickets to for over a year, and after that wait we can now definitivel...

Transferring to Southwark Playhouse's Little from Ipswich, Joanna Carrick's The Ungodly starts during the Civil War, continuing th...

One of this year's best-reviewed Edinburgh shows gets a limited London run as musical comedy duo Flo & Joan take on writing duties,...

As well as being one of the most famous man-made landmarks on Earth, Taj Mahal in Agra, India is known as something of a romantic symbol of...

Welp, October's been a busy theatrical month for me and certainly one with a certain prevailing tone - the odd dud among a very high ra...

As the first play by a black female writer ever to be staged on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun gets an automatic e...

After a soft-launch of comparatively rare plays in generally fun productions, the Evans/Harvey era of the RSC gets its first big-ticket Sha...

The same plays or themes do sometimes crop up several times in quick succession - particular stories will strike multiple people as topical...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: I caught Reykjavik 's final preview performance before they invite the press in. Add Richard Bean to the ever-growi...

How to tell an unconventional Eurydice story all the way to the end without Netflix cancelling it? Stella Powell-Jones' answer is of co...

Azan Ahmed's Statues , which he also performs in, starts with his character Yusuf entering the flat he grew up in, that he hasn't s...

simple8's return to the stage in 2024 saw them revive an old hit, and now premiere a completely new play - although I'm not sure La...