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As regular readers will both know, Roald Dahl's children's fiction was never part of my childhood (I mainly knew him for Tales of t...

The Donald and Margot Warehouse has been one of the high-profile venues to lose all its funding in the latest round of cuts, so we can prob...

A number of interesting shows start with a "what if?" premise. In the case of David Yazbek (music & lyrics) and Itamar Moses...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: All the remaining run of Hex has been reclassified as previews. My most-cancelled show of the Christmas season - I had t...

After the government's handling of Covid-19 in general, and the arts in particular last year, I think there was always an expectation t...

The Old Vic's previous artistic regime was, famously, not really that interested in Fanny, but on Matthew Warchus' watch she's...

Matthew Warchus' second year in charge of the Old Vic is shaping up to be as starry as his predecessor's time, starting with King ...

Playwright Stef Smith takes the metaphorical language of dangerous animals and swarms of insects that accompany right-wing scaremongering ...

With the exception of The Royale , 2015 at the Bush has been an inauspicious year to say the least. There's been shows I instantly for...

Based on the story of the 17th century Indian princes whose mother's death inspired the building of the Taj Mahal, Shahid Nadeem’s Dar...

I can't believe they missed the obvious typo in the title of Tim Price's Teh Internet is Serious Business - surely that should be...

Nick Payne scored his best-received play so far, Constellations , by using scientific hypotheses to structure his narrative. He now replac...

For the second half of simple8's residency at the Arcola, Sebastian Armesto tackles Herman Melville's Moby-Dick . Almost the entir...

A travelling fair makes its annual trip to a small German town, with a new star attraction: The Somnambulist, in which Dr. Caligari (Olive...