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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...

The same plays or themes do sometimes crop up several times in quick succession - particular stories will strike multiple people as topical...

The Donald and Margot Warehouse is back in its occasional in-the-round configuration for Benedict Andrews' version of The Cherry Orchar...

Given that it doesn't look like Yaël Farber’s going anywhere anytime soon, I feel like Rupert Goold's Almeida has really found the ...

Future Dame Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel both return to the Old Vic to pair up as Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins in Bernard ...

The Dorfman's final piece of new writing of 2022 takes a despairing look at the polarisation of opinion by politics and class in modern...

All of Us opens with a neat little reverse: Two women sit opposite each other, Jess (Francesca Martinez) needing some help to get to her c...

Measure for Measure , Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice doesn't sound like the most exciting season imaginable on paper, but the Swan...

I'm starting to think of the 2019/2020 Swanamaker season as "the chipboard season," given the material that's covered th...

Of course, Vassa isn’t the original title. The full title is Vassa Matter You? (Hey!) Gotta No Respec’? The last time Mike Bartlett w...

On the one hand, it's disappointing to have a show at the National where cheap tickets are very thin on the ground; on the other, I ca...

“I’m not sure what that was but I liked it.” That seemed to be the general impression I got from people on Twitter who’d been to see Ella ...

My first two Shakespeare productions of the year fell on consecutive nights, and while both are comedies they couldn't present more of...

You can read my original review here , of the production that eventually made it to #2 in my best shows of 2014 - a result only unusual in...

Arthur Miller imagined commuters using the Brooklyn Bridge and barely registering, let alone caring, that there were people living in the ...