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Caryl Churchill’s later career has been typified by her enviable ability to make her point incredibly succinctly – her plays tend to be sh...

In a theatrical landscape experimenting excitedly with gender-flipped, gender-blind and gender-neutral casting, it's good for a compan...

Where musicals in 2019 have been concerned, the smaller ones have been much more likely to strike a chord with me than the big ones so far...

Do the box office at Hampstead Theatre keep a nightly record of how people pronounce Either when collecting their tickets, and take bets on...

The last in September's trio of new Artistic Directors to make their debut is Roxana Silbert, another experienced hand who comes to Ha...

The Orange Tree's autumn season opens with the UK premiere of a play whose urgent theme and potentially fascinating story get buried u...

Prolific off-Broadway composer Dave Malloy hasn’t had much work seen in the UK that I’m aware of, but with his shows starting to move to B...

Have you ever felt like a theatre's gaslighting you? It's how I felt when the new Turbine Theatre announced its launch show as Har...

The seasoned veteran in 2019's round of Artistic Director Musical Chairs, Rachel O’Riordan taking over the Lyric Hammersmith means she...

Another week, another show gets embroiled in controversy - in the case of Falsettos  it's over whether the long-delayed (27 years) UK ...

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre says they only cancel 5% of performances due to bad weather; I must be particularly unlucky then becaus...

Two years before the performance in the Royal Court Upstairs, Miles' son fell through the ice on a lake and drowned. Miles tried to sa...

After the explosion of new female artistic directors of London theatres earlier this year, this month sees the start of them all debuting ...

Just a few words about Tom Wells' likeable new contribution to Radio 4's stalwart Afternoon Play strand, Great North Run , which t...

It's seven years since Lucy Prebble has written for the stage, a self-imposed exile because - as the playwright herself admitted when ...

The 1980s Canadian sprinter wasn’t the first Ben Jo(h)nson to very obviously be on drugs, as evidenced by the Jacobean playwright’s Bartho...

With its 1990s-set teenage gay romance in neighbouring flats of a London tower block (albeit in Chelsea rather than Thamesmead,) World’s E...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has been an up-and-coming name in American playwriting in the last couple of years – I personally liked An Octoroon...

While Peter Gynt has a stint up at the Edinburgh Festival the National does a straight swap, with the Sydney Theatre Company’s visiting p...

When an Artistic Director leaves their theatre, their final production is generally made a big deal of. Less so in the slightly more nebul...