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Where the commercial theatre is concerned, the clue is in the name: The primary motivation is profit, it's just that some projects mak...

The Cottesloe at the National Theatre was a space whose shows regularly made it into my annual Top Ten, so it's exciting to see it reo...

The Landor reviving Damn Yankees wasn't an opportunity I was going to miss, largely because it's one of those musicals I know abs...

Uncle Vanya is Anya Reiss' third Chekhov adaptation with Russell Bolam at the helm, and hopefully that'll let her view it as a tr...

Ayub Khan-Din's East is East is a play about British Asians that became a big crossover hit in 1997, getting made into a hit film as ...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The papers get invited in tomorrow. Usually when a show has a creative whose previous work had quite a healthy Londo...

Occasionally I see productions of shows I was in at University, but tonight something a bit rarer - a play I was in at school. Of course i...

Carrying distinct echoes of The House of Bernarda Alba , Marcus Gardley's tragicomedy The House That Will Not Stand is, thankfully, p...

Surviving only in a short, probably bastardised version that sounds not unlike Hamlet 's Bad Quarto, The Massacre at Paris sees Chris...

What with the front-of-house remodelling that's been going on at Hampstead Theatre, the current Downstairs season was announced quite ...

I'd never been to the original location of The Print Room, a theatre in Notting Hill that had been steadily gaining a strong reputatio...

Katie Mitchell uses a new translation by Simon Stephens to present a streamlined version of Chekhov's final full-length play at the Yo...

Another change of pace from writer Rona Munro and director Laurie Sansom as we reach the end of the epic trilogy The James Plays with Jam...

Following 2012's Julius Caesar , which saw the inmates of a women's prison perform the play but find some of its themes too close ...

As he documented in Fame earlier this year, David Baddiel missed out on his chance at becoming a millionaire writer of musicals when Andr...

After the all-out energy of In The Heights , director Luke Sheppard returns to Southwark Playhouse - the Little space this time - with som...

Bonkers 1954 musical Salad Days was a hit when revived at Riverside Studios a couple of years ago, which makes it not quite obscure enoug...

The RSC's six-year run through the Shakespeare canon now comes to a pair of comedies that possibly share a greater connection than is ...

After a successful off-Broadway run, Kevin Del Aguila, Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker's boyband spoof Altar Boyz finally debut...

The current in-the-round configuration at the Old Vic is a suitably exposed setting for a good, but stark production of Sophocles' Ele...