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This year's National Theatre Shakespeare is a fairly rarely-performed one, and one that I'm generally pretty happy to have stay tha...

Easily one of the best plays of the 2010s, Lucy Prebble's The Effect returns to the National Theatre where it premiered, but it swaps ...

Weeder needer nudder hero! When I was growing up I had Tina Turner’s Private Dancer album on cassette, and there was a period when I ne...

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

Some shows generate a Marmite buzz right from the first preview, and that was definitely the case with the National's new Edward II , ...

Bruce Norris provided Dominic Cooke with his first show as artistic director of the Royal Court, as well as the play that perhaps best sum...

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...

At Southwark Playhouse last year, Tom Littler's Middle East-set Antigone became unexpectedly topical when it coincided with the death...

It's apparently double-barrelled name week at the theatre for me: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett on Monday , Harry Hadden-Paton last night an...