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In the second of two Philip Ridley plays running in rep underneath Shoreditch Town Hall, Jamie Lloyd returns as director and Soutra Gilmou...

My first two Shakespeare productions of the year fell on consecutive nights, and while both are comedies they couldn't present more of...

For most plays, having seen another production within four years would seem very recent, but the most popular Shakespeares come along a lo...

DISCLAIMER: Drama school productions are classed as amateur performances; but as ever, I try to treat them the same as I would professional ...

Alex MacKeith's debut play is a comedy-drama that punctures a situation pressured to the point of breaking: School Play is set in the...

Last year Jamie Lloyd's ongoing West End projects kept getting bigger, and arguably lost the plot in the process - I made his Doctor F...

My admittedly rare trips to opera haven't exactly been a famous success, but I guess there's something inevitable about me finally...

The Swanamaker launched with The Duchess of Malfi and now returns to the convoluted plots of John Webster for The White Devil - a play t...

I suppose if you stage as many shows as the Finborough does, themes will start to emerge in the programming, whether intentionally or not ...

A writer writing about writing in Laura Eason’s Sex With Strangers , which opens at a remote Michigan cabin that's used as a writers...

Tennessee Williams' most overtly autobiographical play is probably my favourite, which is just as well as it's also the one I'...

A visit much later in the run of a play than I usually make - in my attempt to see less theatre Buried Child had been an easy one to skip...

Dave Florez' short play Experience is about a subject I may or may not have heard of before - at one point in the play a Daily Mail ...

Inspired by a real-life encounter that sounds full of more coincidences that anything in the play itself, Emmet Kirwan writes and performs...

A couple of past successes will be coming back for Christopher Haydon's final season of programming at the Gate, and after the success...

Animal rights as a metaphor for human rights in Raising Martha , David Spicer's black comedy that throws a lot into the mix and gets v...

As has become increasingly apparent over the last few years, the rest of the world doesn't seem to think Gemany might have any insight...

A short season of visiting shows in rep at the Dorfman starts with Us/Them  from BRONKS, a Belgian company that specialises in theatre for...

For the second year the Royal Court partners with the Royal Exchange in Manchester to stage a Bruntwood Prize winner, and following last y...

The description on the website threatens "a triumph of 1960s sexual work-place politics" but also promises Burt Bacharach songs,...