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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...

13th century noblewoman Chiara Offreduccio was an early disciple of Francis of Assisi, the monk who advocated renouncing all earthly goods ...

After a diversion where His Exalted Britannic Excellency, Master of all he Surveys, The Right Rev. Dr Baron Dame Sir Andrew Lloyd Lord Webb...

Based on a W. Somerset Maugham play that's one year shy of celebrating its centenary, Laura Wade's The Constant Wife gives us a fu...

The ongoing collaboration between playwright Lynn Nottage and director Lynette Linton at the Donald and Margot Warehouse continues into a t...

We're not even into the final year of Rupert Goold's programming yet but the Almeida stage already looks like the movers are in: To...

It's not often I go to see a purely dance-based show - very much not my area of expertise but sometimes a welcome change. There's a...

I don't know that I need to consign Bernard Shaw to the same bin I keep Samuel Beckett in, and just avoid his plays entirely, but I do ...

Harrison David Rivers' two-hander This Bitter Earth follows an interracial American gay couple whose relationship is punctuated by sig...

Next Bush Artistic Director Taio Lawson directs the first in his predecessor's final season of shows, and Miss Myrtle's Garden sug...

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...