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It's technically not a seasonal show, but you could argue my last live theatre trip of 2025 is very much a traditional one, since ghost...

Chris Bush's Otherland opens with an otherwise happy couple divorcing over one insurmountable issue; the rest of the two and a half ho...

Plays can take a while to go through development and writing and get to production, often ending up with similar ideas making it to the sta...

Two years ago when theatre made an (unsuccessful) attempt to come out of Covid into the lucrative Christmas show season, there was no short...

After what was meant to be a busy couple of weeks of theatregoing got derailed by me catching Covid, my first show back since testing negat...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: Yet another show where the press night has been pushed back due to some preview performances having to be cancelled. We...

The National usually puts a family show on one of its larger stages around Christmas but this year's offering winds up in the Dorfman;...

Of course, Vassa isn’t the original title. The full title is Vassa Matter You? (Hey!) Gotta No Respec’? The last time Mike Bartlett w...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: Groan Ups is having an extended preview period and invites the official reviewers in next week. Mischief Theatre...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has been an up-and-coming name in American playwriting in the last couple of years – I personally liked An Octoroon...

Now a regular name at the Almeida, American playwright Anne Washburn’s previous plays there Mr Burns and The Twilight Zone (about to get...

The characters in writer-director Anthony Neilson’s The Prudes know they’re in a play called The Prudes , and they resent the implication...

Christopher Eccleston has spent so much time recently vocally trying to disassociate himself from Doctor Who that it's hard to rememb...

Daniel Evans' first season in charge of Chichester has already suggested he'll be following his predecessor in transferring a lot ...

With no shortage of drama about the end of relationships, David Eldridge's new play at the Dorfman looks at a possible Beginning . It...

With its black title character Othello is, unsurprisingly, most often used as a way of looking at racism, but for the last of this year...

It can't be the best sign of the state of the nation that Barrie Keeffe's Barbarians is being seen as highly relevant in 2015. Th...

Tennessee Williams' early masterpiece The Glass Menagerie has suddenly proved popular for fresh interpretation; the production in Sou...

In an unspecified country with a poor human rights record and a corrupt government, a woman wearing a yellow dress offers no resistance wh...

This August has been a decent month for gay-themed theatre, and it's rounded off at Southwark Playhouse by Eye of a Needle , a dark co...