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A multiple Tony-winner gets a comparatively low-key European premiere as David Lindsay-Abaire (book and lyrics) and Jeanine Tesori's (m...

Having clawed her way off my list of creatives I avoid like the plague with a decent Macbeth and a very good King Lear , Yaël Farber now m...

When Elizabeth II became Queen in 1952, composer Benjamin Britten (Samuel Barnett) was commissioned to write a grand opera to be premiered ...

Apparently when John Gielgud ended his run as Prospero at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1957, he foretold that Shakespeare would never ag...

As ever, dance is something I juuuust about feel like I can have an opinion on (as opposed to opera which is usually just me frantically sh...

While we wait for news of whether my long-running campaign to have Indhu Rubasingham take over the National could actually come to somethin...

I often grumble about the work of His Excellency The Rev. Dr Baron Dame Sir Andrew Lloyd Lord Webber BA (Hons) MEng, QC, MD, P.I, FSB, but ...

Easily one of the best plays of the 2010s, Lucy Prebble's The Effect returns to the National Theatre where it premiered, but it swaps ...

The directing bursaries that have been a feature at the Young Vic for a while have been moving on to bigger places in the last couple of ye...

Jamie Lloyd's latest West End season was meant to run at the Playhouse, where its first show, Cyrano de Bergerac , played in early 202...

Yaël Farber has in the past few years added herself to a fairly exclusive club, considering how undiscerning my theatre bookings can seem: ...

Another show where I opted for the streaming option rather than a lengthy Undergound journey each way, Out West  comes from the Lyric Hamme...

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

Given the amount of terrible shows I've seen over the years when the signs really should have been there, regular readers of this blog...

“They set in in the 17th century, gave him a long nose, maybe made it a bit funnier... but for the British, Bergerac will always be John Net...

The quartet of Italian books known collectively as The Neapolitan Novels are apparently A Big Deal, and one that I had absolutely no idea...

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre says they only cancel 5% of performances due to bad weather; I must be particularly unlucky then becaus...

I've seen Pinter's Betrayal  twice before, most recently eight years ago in the same theatre that's since been named after the...

In what was originally meant to be the season’s finale before one more show got added to the end, Pinter Seven is the busiest I’ve seen t...

If something happens in London theatre and Patrick Marber isn’t involved, did it really happen? Well Pinter at the Pinter has definitely ...