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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...

After successes with Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night's Dream , Nicholas Hytner applies the Bridge Theatre's signature promenad...

Apart from the occasional exception, James Graham is overwhelmingly known as a political playwright, often one who uses the past to illumin...

The Dorfman reopens with a Headlong co-production in which all the characters are dead. Arguably a questionable subject after the reason th...

After adapting Chimerica for TV Lucy Kirkwood returns to the stage for a play that feels equally epic in ambition, even if instead of spa...

About 25 years ago Adrian Noble’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was one of a string of RSC productions that first inspired my love of theatre...

Marianne Elliott’s production of Company has been a long time coming – tickets have been on sale for a year and a lot of excitement has b...

Nicholas Hytner’s Bridge Theatre is intended to predominantly showcase new writing, but in only his second production there Hytner can’t r...

Getting in on the Breaking Bad theme before Bryan Cranston himself arrives on the London stage, Marianne Elliott launches her new product...

The more I think about Ink , the more overtly it seems like a take on Doctor Faustus . James Graham’s latest play – his first of three pre...

After his transatlantic success in Ivo van Hove's A View From The Bridge , Mark Strong returns to the stage to work with a director wh...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: I can't see any sign of the papers having been invited to this yet. Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeare ...

The National's new epic is called Husbands & Sons but it's the wives and mothers - underappreciated and overbearing, respecti...

Emma (Denise Gough) is an actress who, halfway through a performance of The Seagull , loses sight of the difference between herself and he...

It's a busy year for Patrick Marber - he's got two shows coming up at the National, not to mention constantly turning up on celebr...

The film-to-musical adaptation has well and truly become a West End fixture, but when the end result is as fresh and downright eccentric a...

Following 2012's Julius Caesar , which saw the inmates of a women's prison perform the play but find some of its themes too close ...

If you don't know the plot of Mark Haddon's  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , or anything about the adaptation ...

It's a Moppets Christmas Carol in the Olivier this year where the National, usually preferring to cast adults as children for its big ...

Howard Davies directing a Russian play has become a bit of an annual National Theatre tradition, often in a translation by Andrew Upton. T...