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When Stephen Sondheim died in 2021 I thought we'd see theatres falling over each other to revive some of his greatest hits, but fair pl...

Henrik Ibsen seems to be the current favourite classic playwright for modern writers to rewrite, rework and reimagine, in plays billed as i...

It's ten years since Ivo van Hove's production of A View From The Bridge not only made a star of the Belgian director in London an...

Both the shows I saw this week shared a common theme of me not having any intention whatsoever of booking for them, until the casting made ...

It takes a certain amount of confidence to call a play Absolute Hell , given the likelihood it’ll end up doing the reviewers’ job for them...

Lindsey Ferrentino's Ugly Lies the Bone is a play for only five actors - one of whom stays offstage almost throughout - looking at a ...

If temporary theatre Found 111 have a USP (other than always seeming to leave some sort of booby-trap for the audience to trip over when t...

Rupert Goold concludes his hit Greek season at the Almeida by directing by far the most frequently produced of the three tragedies (the en...

Kevin Spacey's final piece of programming at the Old Vic is a musical and, after his recent performance at the Olivier Awards, as a sp...

The first King Lear  I ever saw, 20 years ago, starred Robert Stephens in the title role, and Edgar was played by the then rising star of ...

London Road topped my list of favourite theatre of 2011 , and I was far from a lone voice: So popular was Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork...

There's another kitchen on the stage of the new Bush (this time arranged in thrust by designer Morgan Large) but it's a posher and...