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I don't know if it's John Barton's edit/adaptation or Trevor Nunn's direction (probably a bit of both,) but this trilogy v...

Henry VI's queen, Margaret of Anjou (Joely Richardson,) is a figure who looms over the whole of Shakespeare's second historical te...

I don't know why, but I just get the impression that Trevor Nunn favours the white roses. A Shakespearean epic in Kingston (Jamaica?...

The Rattigan revival remains in such full swing it seems insane he vanished from the stage for so long. And given how well plays like Fren...

TV and film writer Paul Andrew Williams makes his stage debut with Ticking , a play that seems to take inspiration from Michael Wall's...

A couple of months ago I first took Evil Alex to Mischief Theatre's improv show Lights! Camera! Improvise! On being told they ask the...

After a sold-out run at Southwark Playhouse last year , Luke Sheppard's UK premiere of In The Heights was widely rumoured for a trans...

While the Almeida's spent the summer giving us radical rewrites of Greek classics, the RSC has cut Euripides out of the picture altoge...

My third, and presumably last Measure for Measure of the year, and after a typically caustic, physical and anti-naturalistic one from Che...

It's been seven years since we last saw a play by Christopher Shinn in London - he had a big hit with Now or Later , which gave Eddie ...

At the start of their marriage Michel (Sam Troughton) and Anne-Marie (Emily Barclay) spent three months living in a hotel room, while they...

Rupert Goold concludes his hit Greek season at the Almeida by directing by far the most frequently produced of the three tragedies (the en...

When Steve Thompson's Roaring Trade premiered in 2009, it was nominally set a couple of years earlier, as it lifted the lid on some o...

In what must be one of history's cruellest cases of nominative determinism, the 18th century actor Samuel Foote really did lose a leg....

Sarah Page's play The Sweethearts , which has graduated from a Vibrant reading to a full production at the Finborough, introduces us t...

Children's author Anthony Horowitz has a fondness for playing in other people's sandpits - he's written Sherlock Holmes novels...

The regular readers of this blog will both recall that I don't technically like to say what I've written is a review, if I didn...

One bonus of blogging my thoughts about every show I see is that when I spot future talent, I can go back and be smug about it when I'...

The titular Octagon in Kristiana Rae Colón's play is the venue for a US national poetry slam competition; but it's also the shape...

The last time Nicole Kidman appeared on a London stage she famously got her neeps and tatties out; the sight gave an elderly critic an ere...