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Although there's no sign of The Musical making a return any time soon, the three original, lo-fi comedy shows from Zachary Hunt, Natha...

While I'm generally happy to trust in Rupert Goold's judgement and have been booking every show in his final Almeida season, the an...

The Royal Court Upstairs seems to be making a new specialist subject out of hardcore prawn of the most disturbing and misogynistic kind, as...

1960s British farces rarely get revived these days, generally because they're built on attitudes and situations that haven't exactl...

Musical theatre performers sometimes turn their hand to writing for the genre, and this is not the first time I've seen one of the res...

Although the run of popular Shakespeares that make up most of the 2026 Globe season are clearly going to be the big sellers, for me the sho...

My mum remembers being about 20 and watching Judy Garland on Sunday Night at the London Palladium , promoting a series of London concerts t...

Many of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories have been put on the stage over the years, with various degrees of seriousness, bu...

Jishik Kim (book and lyrics) and Seungyeon Kwon's (music) The Last Man is the latest piece of K-culture to land in London, and it conf...

Piers Black's accurately-titled I'm Not Being Funny begins with an interesting high concept: A mix of bleak drama and stand-up com...

Alexander Zeldin's CARE takes place in a care home for the elderly, which Rosanna Vize's set design and James Farncombe's ligh...

Sarah Ruhl takes a decidedly metatheatrical stab at romantic comedy, a genre that over the years has seen many stage and screen couples emu...

I hope what I've seen so far of the 2026 summer season at Shakespeare's Globe isn't a sign of things to come, as it could spell...

The National Theatre's recent Importance of Being Earnest found a new angle by introducing a formidable Caribbean take on Lady Brackne...

Tim (Gerard Horan) is an established wildlife photographer - well-regarded and sometimes award-winning, but not quite successful enough to ...

Playing in the West End at the same time as one of his earlier plays that's starting to show its age, David Hare's latest one cons...

As the title gives away, Tom Wright's Please Please Me deals with the Beatles - or at least with the outsider credited with making the...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The show has not yet officially opened to critics.    Dave Harris' Tender is the latest play to deal with a modern...

After Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx (both contributing music and lyrics) and Jeff Whitty's (book) Avenue Q closed (for the third time) its o...

A new production of Christopher Hampton's best-known play, an adaptation of a novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos at the Lyttelton, mar...