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Beth Steel's Till The Stars Come Down has been compared to Chekhov, and though it owes as much to Coronation Street it does centre o...

A few years ago Bill Pullman gave a memorable performance at the Old Vic in All My Sons , and now he returns to the West End to play a more...

In what is becoming a regular occurrence Annie Baker's latest play gets its UK premiere in the Dorfman, where for The Antipodes her p...

Sam Yates’ production is the first time The Starry Messenger has been staged in London, but it’s not my first encounter with Kenneth Lone...

It takes a certain amount of confidence to call a play Absolute Hell , given the likelihood it’ll end up doing the reviewers’ job for them...

What Joe Orton did to farce in What The Butler Saw , he does to black comedy in Loot : Deconstruct the genre by taking it to its logical e...

Having played a part in Lazarus existing, Ivo van Hove has a chance to redeem himself with the classic reinterpretations he does best. He...

Usually to be found working somewhere like the Olivier, Bijan Sheibani directs in Hampstead's smaller Downstairs space, and brings wit...

Although they came from very different backgrounds, Carla and Heather were good friends at primary school. But as they got into their teen...

Vivienne Franzmann is a comparatively new playwright but one who's already demonstrated a great deal of range. After the playground po...

Nick Payne and Carrie Cracknell's devised piece for The Shed was meant to be the final production at the National Theatre's tempor...

A Canadian oddity settles into the Little at Southwark Playhouse. Claudia Dey's Trout Stanley  takes us to the remote cabin shared by ...

The Royal Court's having another of its international seasons, which this year takes us to Poland, and Anna Wakulik's A Time to Re...

I was a rare voice of dissent among the praise for Complicite's A Disappearing Number , so wasn't sure if I fancied the company...