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There's splashguards for the front row of the Swan and grates have been installed on the voms to drain off a variety of bodily fluids, ...

Apart from when things went a bit chaotic circa Covid, I think I've pretty much kept up with every Papatango winner for the last decade...

In the middle of what seems to be a constant stream of doom-laden theatre (I thought light comedy was meant to flourish when the actual out...

We're going to be seeing a lot of Ibsen's A Doll's House in the next year or so as various theatres have programmed new inter...

Dominic Dromgoole passes the directing reins over to Kathy Burke for the second major production in his Oscar Wilde season at the Vaudevil...

It's likely to be overshadowed very shortly by Ian McKellen's return to the title role, but the Globe's production of King Lea...

Lizzie Clachan has turned the Young Vic into a planetarium for Joe Wright's production of Brecht's Life of Galileo , one of the mo...

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

Another theatrical marathon day as a trio of productions originally seen in Chichester come to the Olivier. Jonathan Kent directs David Ha...

Caryl Churchill's certainly been very visible lately: Revivals of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and A Number , a new play coming u...

Things would probably be better all round for everyone (especially me) if I could have made this a non-review, but while I was tempted, I ...

The National Theatre goes back to the classics for this year's big family show, with a new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Tre...

Concluding the Spring season at the Donmar Warehouse is a revival of Fathers and Sons , Brian Friel's adaptation of the Turgenev novel...

The second Mantel piece at the RSC's Swan, Bring Up the Bodies  carries on the story of Thomas Cromwell (Ben Miles) where Wolf Hall l...

I haven't read Hilary Mantel's double Booker-winning historical novels about Thomas Cromwell (I wasn't too fond of her Beyond ...

Following what amounted to a teaser season, Vicky Featherstone officially takes over at the Royal Court by bringing Dennis Kelly's wor...

After 2011's The God of Soho Shakespeare's Globe steered clear of staging new commissions for a while for, er, some reason, but t...

This year's Globe season goes under the very vague banner of "Season of Plenty," which might as well be called "Stuff! ...

Polly Stenham's first two plays made waves not just because of her age (she famously wrote That Face aged 19) but also because they p...

Nikki Amuka-Bird, Linda Bassett, Amanda Drew, John Heffernan, Paul Jesson and Amit Shah are among the cast of 15 for Caryl Churchill's...