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So far Indhu Rubasingham's approach to classics at the National has involved a quirky sensibility from her directors to keep things fee...

An obscure rediscovery seems to have been a hit at the Lyttelton as Emily Burns directs Dodie Smith's Dear Octopus , a sprawling family...

For my second As You Like It of the year (second of a planned three, which in most years would make it the most ubiquitous Shakespeare pla...

The British obsession with the weather is a long-standing joke that gets referenced a couple of times in David Haig’s play Pressure ; atte...

Before Rodgers and Hammerstein were a thing there was Kern and Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein II writing book and lyrics for a number of s...

On the one hand, Andrew Payne's The Meeting is a pretty straightforward - and very effective - office sitcom, but on the other it...

Following his Lear last year Simon Russell Beale has said he's not quite ready to find a way of topping that challenge in the classic...

While a lot has been written about the topicality of a play being revived in the Olivier ( Timon of Athens , which I won't be seeing u...