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The Almeida will continue to have shows programmed in the Rupert Goold era running for the rest of this year, but for his final show there ...

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 ...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: All the remaining run of Hex has been reclassified as previews. My most-cancelled show of the Christmas season - I had t...

For London's second major Three Sisters of the year the National filters Chekhov through Inua Ellams, coming up with a new play that...

This time last year Rufus Norris strayed out of his comfort zone for his big Olivier stage production with notoriously disastrous conseque...

After the success of Chimerica , Lucy Kirkwood’s latest play Mosquitoes gets its premiere at the National Theatre, with Rufus Norris dire...

Tonight it's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Part Two , and as with Part One of J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany's sto...

It's the clichés you always hear about musicals - that they're not written, they're rewritten; that every "effortless...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The press haven't yet been invited to this. Not that they felt they needed an invitation as, notoriously, a few pape...

With screen-to-stage adaptations the most common form of new musical, it's not always the most obvious candidates that work best. But ...

Based on the story of the 17th century Indian princes whose mother's death inspired the building of the Taj Mahal, Shahid Nadeem’s Dar...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is Rufus Norris' final directing job at the National before he takes over as its artistic director, and...

A co-production between the Royal Court, who originally commissioned it, and the Young Vic where it now premieres, Feast  aims to give a t...

Things haven't gone smoothly this year for the National's annual Christmas extravaganza: After taking the unusual, for them, step ...