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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....

Deaf Republic takes its cue from poetry, in a variety of forms: The source material is Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky's book of...

After a quiet start to his time as half the Artistic Director of the RSC Daniel Evans is having a busier second year, following up his role...

Max Harrison, the latest of the select group of directors who seem to specialise in Philip Ridley's twisted fantasies, now takes on the...

After Hamlet on the Titanic and a musical version set to Radiohead* the RSC has its third go at the story this year: I've not got the...

Mike Bartlett's latest play sees him return to a Chekhovian setting and theme of a rural location consumed by possible ecological disa...

Despite its wintery title the season Twelfth Night is most commonly associated with is Autumn, usually accompanied by some variation of th...

Brigadoon! Aha! Take it now or leave it, now is all we get, nothing promised no regrets! About 18 months after Drew McOnie was announced as...

Robert Bolt's 1960 play A Man for All Seasons is considered something of a modern classic, and one that seems to attract actors to rev...

Documenting perhaps the first, definitely not the last, nervous breakdown on live TV, Doug Wright's Good Night, Oscar goes behind the ...

The Other Palace's latest attempt to come up with the next big historical pop musical to rival SIX takes us to 18th century Austria fo...

Playwright Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin's next collaboration after Prima Facie has a lot to live up to after the earlier pl...

Beth Steel's Till The Stars Come Down has been compared to Chekhov, and though it owes as much to Coronation Street it does centre o...

Having clawed her way off my list of creatives I avoid like the plague with a decent Macbeth and a very good King Lear , Yaël Farber now m...

As a result of having to close the Dorfman for the best part of a year for maintenance works, the final season of RuNo shows at the Nationa...

I haven't really been following all the gossip about the troubled production of Burlesque , but I did suspect everything might not be g...

The King's Head's new venue may be so deep down in the ground that you occasionally spot Peter Cushing down there telling a prehist...

John Carney's 2016 sleeper hit Sing Street tried out a stage adaptation in New York and Boston in 2019, and presumably Covid was part ...

George Fouracres seems to be absolutely speeding his way through the big Shakespearean comic roles at the Globe, and has already got to Sir...