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I can't realistically brand the new Talking Heads  as "stage-to-screen" since they originated on TV in the first place; but ...

If UK theatres had anything to celebrate at the moment, the Finborough Theatre would be celebrating its 40th birthday today. Still, it...

It's one of my own personal clichés that the Finborough Theatre approaches programming as if it's the fringe's answer to the N...

National Theatre At Home, which uses recordings made during the NT Live cinema screenings that have become very popular internationally in...

Back to Coronavirus, lockdown and isolation as seen through the uniquely, romantically twisted viewpoint of Philip Ridley, as I go back fo...

Playing Shakespeare is the Globe and Deutsche Bank's annual education programme tying in with the GCSE curriculum, creating 90-minute ...

I didn't so much miss Deafinitely Theatre's revival of Grounded  when it played at Park Theatre as actively choose not to see it: ...

One of the first shows in my diary to get cancelled because of lockdown was the latest revival of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit , but as...

Remember that time when Will Self was a team captain on Shooting Stars ? It's a thing that actually happened (I googled it and it'...

A lot of exciting-sounding shows got cancelled or postponed for the current lockdown, but some losses hurt more than others; a new Philip ...

Russell T Davies' TV adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream  first aired in 2016 as part of the BBC's commemoration of the fo...

A second virtual trip to Leicester, where the Curve Theatre has actually been ahead of the curve so to speak as one of the first venues to...

A few words about an odd little (but in some ways huge and epic) audio drama, written by Robin Brooks as an original Radio 3 play but feel...

Christopher Luscombe's Shakespeare productions tend to have a touch of the Merchant/Ivory to them, and so it is with this 2017 product...

My latest virtual visit to a regional theatre is to one I've been to before in person, although not for a couple of years: Chichester ...

I think any attempt for me to see It's True, It's True, It's True live is cursed: After hearing nothing but raves for Breach T...

Another regional theatre uploading an archive production online to fundraise while the doors are closed, and another grungy show to contra...

More online theatre is being announced all the time to fill in the gap left by the buildings being shut, with the majority of what's c...

With London theatres now closed for the foreseeable future the focus has very quickly shifted to how those of us who spend far too much ti...

The Mikvah Project feels a bit of an unlikely play to get a major revival within a few years of its premiere , when I was interested but ...