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The year's third major Much Ado About Nothing is the starriest, courtesy of John Heffernan and Future Dame Katherine Parkinson as Bene...

Another very literal interpretation of the phrase "stage to screen" saw the Lyttelton Theatre's stage and wings turned tempor...

It can’t be the easiest time in history to be a political playwright; the audience could be walking into the theatre at 7:15 ready for an ...

With its story of economic inequality and social unrest - in Greece no less - Timon of Athens seems like a play that would have attracted...

Ralph Fiennes has a tendency to use his fame to get himself cast in roles he's always wanted to play - his Richard III was something ...

Hamlet is a play so popular and frequently produced that I've seen it more times than any other, so it's not often I feel the nee...

For most plays, having seen another production within four years would seem very recent, but the most popular Shakespeares come along a lo...

A playwright who has the same background as me - half-English, half-Greek - Alexi Kaye Campbell has dealt with a variety of themes, and no...

A few duff Hamlet s in recent years haven't quite shaken my belief that Shakespeare's best-loved play deserves its reputation if o...

Back to the Globe for the second night in a row, and right back to the beginning of the octet that ends with Richard III . In fact I can n...

I can't remember when I last saw a Restoration comedy at the National, but it feels like it's been quite some time. Simon Godwin m...

Simon Godwin seems to be the director the National Theatre immediately thinks of when there's a very long play to be staged at the Lyt...

One of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is called Valentine, and Simon Godwin's production takes this as its cue to open on Valentine'...

Yet another collection of short plays to include a contribution from the ubiquitous Tom Wells, this is a one-day event playing a total of ...

Rachel De-lahay returns to the Royal Court Upstairs after The Westbridge with her follow-up Routes , which sees two men coming from oppos...

Strange indeed: I made sure to book a Sunday matinee of Strange Interlude , having heard that Eugene O'Neill's play is meant to ru...

Anders Lustgarten is a full-time activist whose last play saw the BNP field an Asian candidate at the Finborough in time for the last ele...

I'm sure this'll come as a complete surprise given how purer-than-pure my reviews are, but the blog stats do show that people some...

The Royal Court has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in the last week, what with the Jez Butterworth debacle , and them freezing ...