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One thing that looks likely to become a feature of Vicky Featherstone's tenure at the Royal Court is co-productions with her former co...

I wonder how many people will turn up at Southwark Playhouse for Titanic the Musical  expecting an all-singing, all-dancing adaptation of ...

The Globe's encore Globe to Globe season continues to bring back productions from various countries, and as I'm sure you can tell ...

A couple of years ago Simon Stephens wrote Sea Wall  especially for Andrew Scott and it played for a handful of performances at the Bush a...

Sound designers often make a huge contribution to a performance's overall effect but they're rarely the instigators of an entire p...

The first of two consecutive playwrighting debuts from popular stage actors at the Bush, Josephine and I also sees Cush Jumbo take to the...

Although it's finished in the Royal Court's building itself, the Open Court season lives on via the venue's occasional Theatre...

Is the new Southwark Playhouse deliberately stripping themes across its two studios or is it happening by accident? After an (aborted) Sou...

Fin (Scott Chambers) is a teenager preparing to do his A'levels, and expected to do well as he's highly intelligent and articulate...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: This was the first in a series of London and Manchester Previews before Dark Vanilla Jungle  officially premieres at the...

After 2011's The God of Soho Shakespeare's Globe steered clear of staging new commissions for a while for, er, some reason, but t...

The second of Ed Hall's Propeller shows that Dugald Bruce-Lockhart has revived for another tour is perhaps my least favourite Shakespe...

The film director and Keira Knightley-enabler Joe Wright only made his theatrical debut a few months ago , but he's already looking ve...

After last week's all-female show , an all-male cast rounds off the Royal Court's weekly rep season, although a couple of absent w...

From a Shakespeare play that's new to me  to one I'm very familiar with, As You Like It  having been the first Shakespeare comedy ...

It's not something that I can say very often, and it can only happen a handful more times, but here's a Shakespeare play I'd n...

It's always nice when a play caters to my interests right from the start, like The American Plan  does by opening with Luke Allen-Gale...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: Official critics have not yet been invited to review this. Considered a bit of a feminist classic but not revived f...

I know people who were hoping to skip the Royal Court's Weekly Rep season (when you're a theatre geek there's enough shows to ...

It's really not that long since Noël Coward's Private Lives  was last in the West End - just three years in fact since Kim Cattral...