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Why yes, I am renaming this play so that Google doesn't send an AI bot to delete my blog. Closing out the year at the Royal Court Upsta...

Five years ago the National Theatre staged Brian Friel's Translations in the Olivier, a hit production the publicity calls back to as ...

Fresh from an As You Like It that leaned heavily on sign language, Josie Rourke directs a play that investigates communication and what ha...

Back to @sohoplace Theatre, the venue with a name so current it has a pretty solid strategy in place for the Y2K bug, and it gets its first...

Of the collection of current and future dames in the new version of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads  the most zeitgeisty is surely Jodie ...

I started this blog in 2012, which coincided with when Josie Rourke took over the Donald and Margot Warehouse; barring the odd performance...

During Josie Rourke’s tenure the Donald and Margot Warehouse’s Shakespeare productions have tended to confound expectations – whether it b...

When other actors have had Hollywood commitments this year, Gemma Arterton's turned them into opportunities: When Gugu Mbatha-Raw coul...

Bucking 2016's trend for interminable plays is Nick Payne, whose Elegy tells its story in 75 minutes - and that's with one scene ...

I don't know how dangerous she is, but this Lesley Aisons certainly seems like a bit of a cow. Based on the novel by Choderlos de La...

The second James Graham political play to have been running in London concurrently with The Angry Brigade , tickets for The Vote at the D...

I saw City of Angels in its Edinburgh Fringe premiere in, I think, 1996; all I really remember is being underwhelmed by a show that had b...

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

"Tom Hiddleston showering on stage." According to my blog stats, I've already been getting hits from people Googling that ph...

The Donmar Warehouse is more or less being handed over to Conor McPherson for the summer, with the premiere of his new play coming up but ...

For the fifth production in Josie Rourke's... unusual first year in charge of the Donmar, designer Lucy Osborne has partly reconfigure...

Three shows in and it's harder than ever to see what identity Josie Rourke is trying to give the Donmar Warehouse under her Artistic Di...

Captain Plume has been courting Silvia for some time, and Mr Worthy has been courting her cousin Melinda. But when both women come into un...