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The influential theatre director and coat thief Joan Littlewood will always be associated with Stratford, so it seems inevitable that a ne...

The Young Vic’s programme is announced so far in advance that only now, months after Kwame Kwei-Armah took over as Artistic Director, do w...

Some day I’ll see a play where well-meaning but essentially ineffectual liberals don’t turn into dribbling racists within minutes of bein...

Lia Williams takes on another iconic role as the Donald and Margot Warehouse stages Muriel Spark's novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie...

I originally had a ticket to see Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's The Jungle  at the Young Vic last year, but was too ill to go. But in ...

As Vanessa Kirby’s Julie first walks onto the stage rubbing cocaine into her gums I couldn’t help thinking: You can recast Princess Marga...

Arthur Miller must have spent half his life being asked to write about Marilyn Monroe, and in his final play he did. Finishing the Picture...

It's no secret that I'm not a fan of Romeo and Juliet , but it's also no secret that I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise...

The Almeida’s current season of female playwrights now looks back to 1928 for a play whose expressionist style places it very firmly in th...

Emily Schwend's Utility concludes another successful season at the Orange Tree, albeit one that's felt more quietly consistent th...

Ladies and gentlemen, LAURA MOTHERFUCKING LINNEY. I’m still not sure any more review is actually necessary for My Name is Lucy Barton , ...

With the high-profile flops it’s hosted over the last year the usual arguments have come up about how the Olivier’s size and shape make it...

Frantic Assembly’s verbatim piece Fatherland is the brainchild of director Scott Graham, composer Karl Hyde and playwright Simon Stephens...

A minor way in which Michelle Terry has already differed from her predecessors at the Globe is that this is the first summer season at the...

Does Southwark Playhouse have an ultimate goal of staging Starlight Express some day? They seem to have cornered the market in shows invo...

Fiona Doyle’s second play for Hampstead Downstairs, The Strange Death of John Doe is structured as a post-mortem on what was, indeed, a s...

Anthony Hopkins played King Lear in his fifties, in a National Theatre production so famously derided he ended up retiring from the stage....

The second show from the Globe’s new Michelle Terry-led ensemble is As You Like It , nominally paired with the Hamlet they’re playing it ...

Frank (Jonathan Cake) arrives at the final interview stage for a senior sales job at a Fortune 500 company only to find no interviewers pr...

Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj took its inspiration from a false, but widely believed, legend about the building of the Taj Mahal; for ...