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The new Artistic Director has launched the season by reminding us of the National Theatre's close connection with Ancient Greek Tragedy...

Continuing the new RSC artistic team's unpredictable approach to an opening season we have a rare main stage outing for Restoration Com...

In an unnamed totalitarian state, Jan Čelik (Jonny Lee Miller) is Director of the Ministry of Culture, tipped to become the next Minister a...

My first theatre trip of 2023 is to the Donald and Margot Warehouse. It's the show I'd actually planned to open the year with, and ...

The latest West End outing for Blithe Spirit is a show I was perhaps looking forward to more when it became one of my first casualties of ...

A delayed trip to the Donald and Margot Warehouse, where James Macdonald's production of The Way of the World  has been sadly overshad...

Nobody could accuse Ed Hall's Hampstead Theatre of wild programming, but the word itself is one they're very fond of - we've h...

Last year's big one-day, three-play marathon, The Wars of the Roses , followed Shakespeare's rarely-performed Henry VI plays with...

This may be Young Chekhov but it's already time for a midlife crisis play in the middle section of Jonathan Kent's productions of...

What do BBC budget cuts look like? Geoffrey Streatfeild with some muesli on his face to show that Edward IV is poorly, that's what they ...

I can't remember when I last saw a Restoration comedy at the National, but it feels like it's been quite some time. Simon Godwin m...

A classic gay play follows an adaptation of Russian literature in the Donmar Warehouse's consistently eclectic programming. First see...

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