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Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! Oh no wait, it says Beauty .    Actor Jack Holden's second career as a playwright is really picking up steam ...

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

The Michael Grandage Company returns to the West End for a light comedy whose more serious intentions never quite cohere: Backstairs Billy ...

With the changing understanding of gender, and the arrival of bankable non-binary stars like Emma Corrin in recent years, it's not surp...

In what will with any luck be the start of me regularly going to the theatre with actual, human friends again, it's a twice-postponed t...

It’s starting to look like 2018 might be the first year I don’t see Damien Molony on stage since I started this blog; instead it’s his Bei...

It’s nine years since John Logan’s Red premie red at the Donald and Margot Warehouse, and while I would have happily seen it again at th...

Dawn French's monologue is advertised as being neither standup comedy nor theatre but somewhere in between; essentially Thirty Million...

The last time Nicole Kidman appeared on a London stage she famously got her neeps and tatties out; the sight gave an elderly critic an ere...

A year ago it looked certain that the Michael Grandage Season at the Noël Coward Theatre would be one of the theatrical events of 2013, bu...

One of the big theatrical events of 2013, the Michael Grandage season at the Noël Coward is already nearing its end with the first of the ...

Ireland can't be such a bad place if Daniel Radcliffe wants to go there. It's the mid-point of Michael Grandage's residency at...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: I don't recall booking to see this during the preview period, but apparently I did, and the critics aren't bei...

Regular readers of this blog (both of them) will probably know not to expect too much in the way of sensible reviewing from my musings on ...