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Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park is about to get a London revival but before then the Theatre Royal Stratford East jumps in with a new pl...

The last time Christopher Marlowe's version of the Doctor Faustus story was seen in London, the Swanamaker cast a female lead to tak...

I can never quite decide which, of the plays so bleak even Chekhov didn't try to pass them off as comedies, is the most gut-wrenching:...

With #MeToo, #TimesUp and other related hashtags popular themes in new plays over the last few years, there's no question theatre has ...

Andy Rush and Andrew Finnigan in a play together at last, and it's not written by Tom Wells? It must be the End of Days. In Sam Stein...

Almost as numerous as productions of Hamlet itself are reinterpretations and reimaginings of Shakespeare's play, and in 6FootStories...

“They set in in the 17th century, gave him a long nose, maybe made it a bit funnier... but for the British, Bergerac will always be John Net...

Taking up half of Mischief Theatre's year-long residency at the Vaudeville Theatre is a return, after an attempt at a slightly  more c...

A dick joke about Richard III? Who would do such a thing? Michael Longhurst's second directing gig at the Donald and Margot Warehous...

Rebecca Frecknall has inherited Robert Icke's Associate Director position at the Almeida and with it, it would seem, the van Hove-styl...

I'm starting to think of the 2019/2020 Swanamaker season as "the chipboard season," given the material that's covered th...

It's the end of another year in theatre, as well as the end of the decade, and the trend on both professional and amateur sites has be...

My final theatre trip of 2019 isn't explicitly a Christmas show - in fact it very specifically takes place in the late summer and earl...

The quartet of Italian books known collectively as The Neapolitan Novels are apparently A Big Deal, and one that I had absolutely no idea...

The National usually puts a family show on one of its larger stages around Christmas but this year's offering winds up in the Dorfman;...

Mike Bartlett's already on his second Brexit play (third, if you count Love, Love, Love as foreshadowing, which next year's reviv...

Racism and insidious forms of discrimination seem to have been a major theme in London theatre over the last week, and at the Royal Court ...

I'm not sure there's much at the moment that can't set off depressing thoughts on the current political situation, but walkin...

Jackie Sibblies Drury’s dark comedy about cultural appropriation Fairview begins as That American Play Where An Extended Family Gets Toge...

For London's second major Three Sisters of the year the National filters Chekhov through Inua Ellams, coming up with a new play that...