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1973's In Praise of Love is one of Terence Rattigan's last plays, a time when his star was in the descendant, and at times it does...

Director Georgie Rankcom seems to have established a very specific niche: Revivals of Stephen Sondheim obscurities that I'd previously ...

First seen in Sheffield in 2013, Tim Firth's (book and music) This Is My Family has taken twelve years to make it to London, and after...

Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation whose phrasing is so vague it seems to have been drafted by people who don't understand any of the words in it ...

Split between the late 1960s and the present day in Wolverhampton, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's Marriage Material , based on Sathnam Sanghera...

Mischief Theatre return to the London stage, and to their trademark incredibly literally-titled shows with The Comedy About Spies , a 1960s...

Nancy Netherwood's Radiant Boy is subtitled "A Haunting," and is framed as the story of an exorcism. But horror fans will pr...

Shucked by the power Shucked by the power of love OK they don't actually do that one, but Robert Horn (book,) Brandy Clark and Shane Mc...

The Deep Blue Sea isn't the easiest watch in the Terence Rattigan canon but it's considered among his great works; that, and Tamsi...

After Hamlet on the Titanic and Much Ado About WAGs , this spring's trio of super-high concept Shakespeare productions concludes with...

Back to @sohoplace, the theatre with a name so current it thinks it's figured out what the "F" stands for in TFI Friday , for...

Anne Boleyn looms large over Ava Pickett's 1536 , although she never actually makes an appearance*: Instead we're in a field in Ess...

Stephen Sondheim's final completed musical makes its UK debut at the National with a transfer of Joe Mantello's original off-Broadw...

Theatrical 2025 looks set to be memorable in part for Shakespeare productions whose high concepts tip over from the eccentric to the downri...

Henrik Ibsen seems to be the current favourite classic playwright for modern writers to rewrite, rework and reimagine, in plays billed as i...

Taking its title from the station tourists mistakenly think has the smuttiest-sounding name on the Tube (only because they don't know h...

There's splashguards for the front row of the Swan and grates have been installed on the voms to drain off a variety of bodily fluids, ...

Playwright and director Conor McPherson recently received a massive tax bill - at least that's the most obvious explanation for the fra...

Dealer's Choice is a play I've got a bit of history with: I saw the original 1995 production at what was then called the Cottesloe...

When Elizabeth II became Queen in 1952, composer Benjamin Britten (Samuel Barnett) was commissioned to write a grand opera to be premiered ...