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I started 2016 with a musical about a rather niche subject; I end the year on a more old-fashioned one that isn't strictly speaking fo...

Having played a part in Lazarus existing, Ivo van Hove has a chance to redeem himself with the classic reinterpretations he does best. He...

Time for one of my very occasional dips into the world of dance - this year my mum decided she'd like to be taken to the ballet for Ch...

Florian Zeller is the French playwright who's all the rage in London at the moment, but in the nineties that title belonged firmly to ...

When other actors have had Hollywood commitments this year, Gemma Arterton's turned them into opportunities: When Gugu Mbatha-Raw coul...

Martha (Siân Thomas) was a legendary protest singer in the 1970s, but she retired both from music and from public view. Simon (George Blag...

Nobody could accuse Ed Hall's Hampstead Theatre of wild programming, but the word itself is one they're very fond of - we've h...

New plays in the Swanamaker have tended to have a classical music theme to tie in with the venue's concert series - Farinelli and the ...

Not every Broadway hit makes a quick move to the West End but Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger's 1981 show Dreamgirls taking until 2016 to ...

I have my own theories as to why one of Broadway's biggest-ever hits only ever had modest success in the UK, and although I've see...

For the fifth year running it was a big group outing to the Lyric Hammersmith's pantomime, where last year's director Ellen McDoug...

It's fair to say my past experience with director Richard Jones' work hasn't been stellar; at least I didn't leave his las...

"Ah well, you did your best and it wasnae very good... And that's a fair epitaph for most of us." Obscure mid-20th century p...

I'd always thought of Somerset Maugham as a novelist and short story writer who'd also written the odd play, but it turns out in t...

"Candles are so much better than electricity, aren't they?" Emma Rice's family Christmas show for Shakespeare's Glob...

It seems like "whimsy" is the word of the week - a couple of days ago it was a particularly Welsh brand of it , now it's an ...

After the large-cast, continent-hopping Chimerica , Lucy Kirkwood scales things down to a story about three retired nuclear scientists, in...

Shôn Dale-Jones is the creator and performer behind "emerging performance artist" Hugh Hughes, but for his latest show The Duke ...

"I can't imagine ever being able to laugh about any of this," says Rodney Ackland's author substitute. Which is actually...

At some point during rehearsals at the RSC the following conversation must surely have taken place: "You know how we've marketed...