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Edward Hall is stepping down as Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre, and on paper a new Howard Brenton play seems a fitting swansong to...

Time to take a risk on another Pulitzer winner at the Hampstead; it’s a combo that should sound promising but on past evidence is to be ap...

Portrait (orientation) of the artist as a young woman. One of the shows I had a ticket to but had to skip when I was ill last month was ...

Fiona Doyle’s second play for Hampstead Downstairs, The Strange Death of John Doe is structured as a post-mortem on what was, indeed, a s...

American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole has had a bit of a stuttering journey to the London stage - a couple of years ...

Wonderland seems an unlikely description of life in a coal mine but Ashley Martin Davis' show-stealing set goes some way to making it...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: Not sure when the papers are being invited to this. Hampstead Theatre have scored a number of West End transfers rec...

Actor Simon Paisley Day turns playwright with a familiar comic setup: Three couples go on what is meant to be a relaxing weekend together,...

The second of Ed Hall's Propeller shows that Dugald Bruce-Lockhart has revived for another tour is perhaps my least favourite Shakespe...

It's July, which means it must be time for one of my annual theatrical highlights: Having toured their current season since last autum...

Henry V is the Shakespeare that's hard to avoid this year and after a thoroughly disappointing one at the Globe I was optimistic tha...

The first time I saw The Winter's Tale , at the RSC some time in the '90s, I remember really enjoying it, but subsequent productio...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: I seem to be having a run (ha!) of these at the moment. This one doesn't open to professional critics until next wee...