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Stephen Karam’s The Humans was a Pulitzer nominee and Tony winner; if your preconception of plays that New York critics go crazy for mean...

This year's tiny tour returns to the Globe for its final performances, and following the #VotersChoice gimmick of this season I wonder...

Concluding a season of work by female playwrights at the Almeida is Clare Barron’s Dance Nation , a funny, touching and sometimes devastat...

It's great to see Jade Williams back at the Globe, even if it is  indoors in the Swanamaker so there's no groundlings for her to v...

Dominic Dromgoole’s Classic Spring company was set up to present late 19th and early 20th century classics in the West End proscenium arch...

I'd been fully expecting the RSC to announce that Antony Sher would return to the role of Sir John Falstaff "by" "popul...

…so the agent says “And what do you call this act?” Aristocrats is the latest in the Donald and Margot Warehouse’s occasional focus on ...

A white stranger forces his way into a black family’s home, but race is a secondary factor in Naomi Wallace’s look at Depression-era Ameri...

Like most new Artistic Directors, Michelle Terry's had a mixed first season in charge of the Globe, but one area that for me has seeme...

For the final major Shakespeare production of Michelle Terry’s first summer season the last actor to serve as Artistic Director of the Glo...

A low-key meme in 2018 seems to be gay plays that engage with the legacy of Angels in America ; The Inheritance was of course a two-part ...

Last seen in London in 2007, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's Little Shop of Horrors  is the Open Air Theatre's main musical offeri...

Currently in residence at Southwark Playhouse, I’m quite surprised that youth company British Theatre Academy managed to get the rights to...

"He thinks he's the first person ever to die." "Everyone is the first person ever to die." That’s the exchange ...

After becoming a much-talked about show in Edinburgh and touring the world, Belgian company Ontroerend Goed's £¥€$ (pronounced "...

Laura Wade’s new play opens with a cheesy domestic scene straight out of a 1950s sitcom, as perfectly-coiffed housewife Judy (Future Dame ...

King Lear is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays and I must have seen at least a dozen productions by now, so I don't say it lightl...

After the comparative triumph of writing the Olivier’s least-worst new play of 2017 , Rory Mullarkey returns to the Royal Court where his ...

A couple of things worth getting out of the way straight away: Alan Bennett's latest play is his best since The History Boys . Not nec...

Second time lucky at the Open Air Theatre's  As You Like It - if you thought London hadn't had a drop of rain for weeks you weren...