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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 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...

The Michael Grandage Company returns to the West End for a light comedy whose more serious intentions never quite cohere: Backstairs Billy ...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The official press night is this Wednesday. When the RSC staged Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , the first two nove...

In what will with any luck be the start of me regularly going to the theatre with actual, human friends again, it's a twice-postponed t...

It’s nine years since John Logan’s Red premie red at the Donald and Margot Warehouse, and while I would have happily seen it again at th...

A delayed arrival in the West End for Broadway star Audra McDonald – she was due to appear in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill a...

If the whole point of SirKenBran's eponymous, year-long residency at the Garrick was to prove that he could programme a whole season a...

The SirKenBranCo season at the Garrick has put two of my least favourite Shakespeare plays at the centre of its programming, and where The...

The latest director to launch his own West End residency is Kenneth Branagh, and he promises to stick around until the end and not get di...

The last time Nicole Kidman appeared on a London stage she famously got her neeps and tatties out; the sight gave an elderly critic an ere...

Simon Godwin seems to be the director the National Theatre immediately thinks of when there's a very long play to be staged at the Lyt...

The second Mantel piece at the RSC's Swan, Bring Up the Bodies  carries on the story of Thomas Cromwell (Ben Miles) where Wolf Hall l...

I haven't read Hilary Mantel's double Booker-winning historical novels about Thomas Cromwell (I wasn't too fond of her Beyond ...

A year ago it looked certain that the Michael Grandage Season at the Noël Coward Theatre would be one of the theatrical events of 2013, bu...

Ireland can't be such a bad place if Daniel Radcliffe wants to go there. It's the mid-point of Michael Grandage's residency at...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: I don't recall booking to see this during the preview period, but apparently I did, and the critics aren't bei...

Regular readers of this blog (both of them) will probably know not to expect too much in the way of sensible reviewing from my musings on ...

Vanya has spent his life looking after his late sister's estate, taking a pittance for himself and sending all the profits to support ...