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Last year Cheek By Jowl provided me with one of my favourite shows of 2011 with their Russian Tempest . And the last time I saw 'Tis P...

After the high-concept, high pace of his recent hit Constellations , another change of pace from playwright Nick Payne to something a lot ...

They do say you shouldn't choose which shows to see solely on the basis of one cast member, and it can backfire. After having happily ...

Captain Plume has been courting Silvia for some time, and Mr Worthy has been courting her cousin Melinda. But when both women come into un...

Alan Ayckbourn's latest play is due to arrive in That London soon but first there's another revival from his huge back catalogue. ...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: This review is of a late preview - the penultimate one, I think. Although unfortunately this felt more like the firs...

The programme notes for Doug Lucie's The Shallow End suggest that on its first appearance in 1997 the play was dismissed because it was...

Big Favourite Round These Parts, Russell Tovey returns to the stage for the first time in three years in Sex With A Stranger , written for ...

A watery mini-theme at the theatre this week, although unlike last night there wasn't much fear of getting splashed in the second row...

At Swim Two Boys is closer to dance than it is to "movement theatre," which puts it a bit out of my comfort zone, reviewing-wise....

I do like to pick something spectacularly unromantic for my Valentine's Day viewing. I'm not sure anything can beat The Shape of T...

This year a grotesque and disturbing British icon celebrates a major milestone. But enough about the Queen, and on to Mister Punch whose fir...

Howard Brenton wrote Bloody Poetry in 1984 as a reaction to Thatcher's government and what he saw as the "shredding" of Eng...

Outward Bound sees the Finborough's stage configured, by designer Alex Marker, into a similar in-the-round setup as last year's A...

It's apparently double-barrelled name week at the theatre for me: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett on Monday , Harry Hadden-Paton last night an...

Jamie Lloyd's first production at the National isn't quite the high-speed ride you usually expect from him, coming in at just unde...

Taking its cue from a notorious case from a few years back, which saw the media clamouring for social workers to blame and sack, Shallow Slu...

"This is going to be one of those we disagree about, isn't it?" was the first thing I said to Richard as we got up after The...

Apparently the weather's currently so cold that EVEN that Old Red Lion's claustrophobic space isn't turning into a furnace, an...

The last time the RSC tried their hand at a bit of shrew-taming, they went for a literal approach that didn't sugarcoat the misogyny ...