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The past may be Another Country  but I had to double-check when Julian Mitchell's play was set, as the real foreign environment in his...

For a while now I've wanted to see Jamie Parker play Hamlet, but the theatre that seems the most likely venue to let him, Shakespeare...

Neil LaBute's reputation has never painted him as a ray of golden sunshine, and he's happy to live up to his misanthropic image in...

Someone's had the idea of touring a farce cast entirely with dwarves. Fortunately the person who thought of it was Warwick Davis, whic...

OK, so I've sometimes been guilty of getting the giggles when a show's attempt to be dramatic goes badly wrong. But 30 seconds int...

A few years ago the Old Vic was reconfigured in the round for a production of The Norman Conquests  that proved a big hit, followed by som...

The last time Tacit Theatre were at Southwark Playhouse (when it was still in London Bridge) was with a version of The Canterbury Tales  t...

An adaptation of an adaptation at Shoreditch Town Hall: Philip Pullman recently published his own retelling of the classic fairytales by t...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: No idea when the producers are going to risk letting the critics in for this one. All the press about new musical I ...

As far as I can tell the Menier Chocolate Factory's artistic policy is "to make the Old Vic look positively avant-garde in compar...

You know that TV show about the old woman who commits a murder every week, frames someone for it, then writes a book about it? It's ca...

Sometimes an issue becomes so widely discussed that a number of responses to it come up all at once. And so for the second time this year ...

The second offering in The Shed's pairing of monologues by women, playing a 9:30 show after riverrun , is a lot more down to earth and...

James Joyce's Ulysses  is one of those classics people set themselves almost as a challenge, a novel anyone who believes themselves a ...

Class comedy is a particularly British genre but there's an American variant as well, often puncturing the aspirational clichés of the...

I know that most theatres barely pay lip service to their own "no latecomers" rules, but at least they usually try to let stragg...

An accomplished first full-length play from Barney Norris, Visitors  looks at the effect on a family when one member of it is stricken wit...

Putting in a bid for the oddest show of the year is the Gate with a play that casts something before swine, although whether or not it...

Matthew Baldwin is a stalwart of the Above the Stag gay panto, usually alternating between waspish dames and kinky villains, so it's s...

The Donmar Warehouse weighs in on the centenary of World War I, but although this year marks a century from the outbreak of hostilities, P...