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I don't know that I need to consign Bernard Shaw to the same bin I keep Samuel Beckett in, and just avoid his plays entirely, but I do ...

Recently-upgraded Dame Imelda Staunton finally gets to take the title role in Jerry Herman (music & lyrics) and Michael Stewart's (...

I can't realistically brand the new Talking Heads  as "stage-to-screen" since they originated on TV in the first place; but ...

Follies is probably the best-known Stephen Sondheim musical I hadn’t yet seen, and the sheer scale of Dominic Cooke’s production at the N...

This year's big-name West End casting is getting into its stride now, and after her all-conquering Gypsy Imelda Staunton is one of th...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: This Chichester transfer hasn't opened to London critics yet. Something of an origin story for Gypsy Rose Lee, t...

Class comedy is a particularly British genre but there's an American variant as well, often puncturing the aspirational clichés of the...

Although it's finished in the Royal Court's building itself, the Open Court season lives on via the venue's occasional Theatre...

Sometimes you can feel a lot better about yourself by spending some time with the very worst specimens of humanity. But enough about Vanes...