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Back to @sohoplace, the theatre with a name so current it would like to tell you its theories about Scully's abduction, and a play full...

Despite an incredibly irritating social media publicity campaign (who were those messages raving about the show months before it opened eve...

I said a few weeks ago that the National had managed a bit of a coup by scheduling probably the two most bankable British playwrights at th...

17th century French playwrights had a trend for recreating the themes and styles of Ancient Greek theatre, but while the originals are regu...

You might think that a game of chess would be hard to make a compelling stage story out of, but as Chess has been proving for the last th...

After a pair of more obscure plays a couple of months ago, this year's second brace of Arthur Miller plays offers up some of his most ...

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...

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: The newspaper critics aren't invited in until next week. As well as the preview disclaimer, Privacy  comes with ...

Greg and Holly moved to Dubai as a result of a vague romantic attraction of Holly's to the desert. In fact when we first meet them, Ho...

In 1974, two general elections resulted in a hung parliament (no clear majority) followed by a slim Labour majority. Without forming a coa...

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...