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Whatever else I might have to say about it, there's something to admire about a play that's had to stick a note on the doors of th...

Nowadays Howard Brenton is our top writer of history plays but in the 1970s he was a more overtly political writer, and things don't g...

Alexandra Wood’s Merit takes place in Spain, where the recession has hit jobs particularly hard, and opens with Sofia (Ellie Turner) a fe...

Unusually for the Finborough, their first show of 2015 is running for two months rather than just one - like one of its characters, they m...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: This was a London preview of a show officially premiering at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Regular readers of th...

In the speculation over who will succeed Nicholas Hytner as Artistic Director of the National Theatre in two years' time, one name unl...

Director Phil Willmott has made a bit of an annual tradition of reviving Shakespearean obscurities at the Union Theatre, with the dubious ...

Russell Bolam directed my top show of 2012 , and he kicks off 2013 with an English premiere, Iain Finlay Mcleod's Somersaults . The ma...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The Fear of Breathing  doesn't open to official reviewers until tomorrow. Last night on the way back from the th...

In recent years a number of theatres have commissioned new plays looking at the current financial crisis, its causes and historical preced...