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Maria Friedman has a long association with Stephen Sondheim's work as a performer, and she now has a go at directing his work as well,...

Donmar Trafalgar's final season has an overall theme of lesser-known foreign language classics, presented in new adaptations by well-k...

There's a definite kinky theme developing to this week's theatregoing (how traumatic for me, I'm sure you're all thinking,...

Certain shows you expect to have multiple London productions in a year, but they tend to be your Shakespeares and Chekhovs. Anthony Burges...

In 1948-9, the Islamic scholar Sayid Qutb (Jude Akuwudike) spent 18 months studying at a small American university. Already a much-publish...

New adaptations of Greek tragedy often take a modernising approach to the play, but Mike Bartlett's version of Euripides' Medea  f...

Things haven't gone smoothly this year for the National's annual Christmas extravaganza: After taking the unusual, for them, step ...

Following their hugely successful (except in America) work on ENRON , writer Lucy Prebble and director Rupert Goold reunite for a play wit...

Russell Bolam, who directed Shivered , returns to Southwark Playhouse's main house to tackle Chekhov, bringing with him one of that sh...

I'm all for giving people second chances, and at £8 for the Almeida's behind-a-pillar obstructed view seats, it's not as big a...

Inevitably one of the biggest theatrical events of the year was always going to be the premiere of the new Alan Bennett play, the latest i...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: Although this is a production I've already reviewed , this West End transfer doesn't get its second Press Night ...

After a successful first season of "Revolt," Christopher Haydon at the Gate looks at "Aftermath," and first in the new...

The publicity for the second show at the new St James Theatre has heavily plugged John Caird as the co-director of the original Les Miséra...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The official critics are being invited to this on Wednesday. There's quite a selection of musicals to choose fro...

Another lesser-known Kander and Ebb musical gets revived, this time at  the Union. It's now the turn of the 1997 Broadway flop Steel P...

There were cheers when it was announced there would be major improvement works done to the Arcola's unloved new building. Less so when...

Vanya has spent his life looking after his late sister's estate, taking a pittance for himself and sending all the profits to support ...

Thom Southerland's musical revivals have become a regular feature in Southwark Playhouse's Vault and hopefully one that will follo...

Limping in at the tail end of the World Shakespeare Festival is a contribution from Catalan director Calixto Bieito, spending a few days a...