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I'm not calling this a review because I can't comment on the whole show: I left at the interval. Tony Kushner's A Bright Room ...

Playwright Richard Bean has been off the radar a bit since the all-conquering One Man, Two Guvnors , but he's going to be cropping up ...

Some productions seem to appear with perfect timing while others have the worst; it's certainly the latter when a black comedy about a...

Jeremy Herrin's first show as director since taking over Headlong is a co-production with his old stomping ground at the Royal Court, ...

It got two shows into my Top Ten last year, but it has to be said lately the Finborough's productions haven't really been grabbing...

Among the many current discussions about jobs and representation for women on stage, one question that often comes up is what constitutes ...

Among the plays the Finborough unearths that haven't been performed for decades, there's the odd one that hasn't been performe...

Are they only partly warriors? No! They're... Holy Warriors is the second of this year's war-themed new commissions at Shakespe...

Déjà vu at the Noël Coward Theatre, where six months after The Full Monty another screen-to-stage adaptation opens. Whether it'll far...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: This was a London preview of a show officially premiering at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Regular readers of th...

One of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is called Valentine, and Simon Godwin's production takes this as its cue to open on Valentine'...

The show that gives this year's RSC Swan season its overall title is Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl , a comedy inspired b...

Getting naked on stage can't be many actors' favourite thing, although at least on a night as warm as tonight I guess they can fee...

Jamie Lloyd opens the second season of Trafalgar Underwhelmed Transformed like the first , with a big-name star in a popular Shakespeare ...

As a companion piece to the RSC's "Roaring Girls" season, Erica Whyman commissioned a quartet of short plays by female playw...

Wonderland seems an unlikely description of life in a coal mine but Ashley Martin Davis' show-stealing set goes some way to making it...

This was a drama school production so technically an amateur performance; as usual I'll try to treat it the same as a professional show,...

Without the hype that accompanies some multitasking actors, Robin Soans has had a second career as a playwright for some years, and does s...

If the concept of a Lars von Trier comedy isn't weird enough, the comedy itself certainly is. Based on a more-or-less forgotten 1 von...

If you don't know the plot of Mark Haddon's  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , or anything about the adaptation ...