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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...

Tanika Gupta throws Ibsen's proto-sociopath Hedda Gabler into a blender with the real-life story of silent screen star Merle Oberon, an...

Keeping things short and, for a while at least, sweet at Southwark Playhouse's main house is Jack Godfrey (music and lyrics) and Ellie ...

Felix Mendelssohn is the 19th century German composer best-known for the Wedding March, but he's just the most famous talent in his fam...

Following the surprise success of her debut Farm Hall , Katherine Moar returns to Jermyn Street Theatre for her follow-up. This time she do...

My last encounter with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac was Jamie Lloyd's rap battle reinvention , a version that won't be ...

The new Artistic Director has launched the season by reminding us of the National Theatre's close connection with Ancient Greek Tragedy...

Long before he even announced he was leaving the National Theatre I was arguing that RuNo should be succeeded by InRu, so when I actually g...

For one of his last productions at the Old Vic Matthew Warchus directs the UK premiere of Tracy Letts' 2016 play Mary Page Marlowe , in...

If Hamlet 's most famous question is asked by the title character, Troilus and Cressida 's is asked by the audience, shortly after ...

Before nabbing that big franchise cash with The Hunger Games Conor McPherson rounds out his big year of paying the bills by directing his ...

Nadia Fall moves from Stratford to Southwark, and launches her time at the Young Vic with Entertaining Mr Sloane , Joe Orton's first fu...

After an unplanned week away from the theatre thanks to my latest brush with Covid, I'm back at Trafalgar Theatre, whose corridors have...

Transferring to the Kiln after a hit run at the Galway International Arts Festival, writer-director Mark O'Rowe's Reunion is a loo...

I have to say that after some of Alice Birch's previous work, Romans, a Novel was a show I considered skipping; Kyle Soller's retu...

Simon Stone is known for his versions of classic plays, that are sometimes not so much loose adaptations as tangentially connected to the o...

We've already had a camp comedy version this year, a starry monologue version is coming to the West End in 2026, and in between the tw...

Katie Mitchell has been noticing that Foley art is a thing that exists, and building shows around it, on and off for years now. To be hones...

The Finborough's rediscoveries of once-popular, now forgotten works by famous authors have previously included the first time I saw J....