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2022's ubiquitous Shakespeare is the much-loved but problematic Much Ado About Nothing , and for my second major production of the year...

The Open Air Theatre launches its 2022 season with one of its trademarks, a hit Broadway/West End musical reinvented for the space; but bot...

Despite, or perhaps because of, the amount of extra-long shows I've seen recently, I seem to be in the mood to see something epic at th...

In the mid 1970s in Louisville, Kentucky, a construction worker fell off scaffolding and died. Faulty equipment was to blame, but the compa...

I'm back in Stratford-upon-Avon for the Empire Strikes Back of Shakespeare's York v Lancaster trilogy: Originally titled Richard, ...

Anne-Marie Duff returns to the stage, bringing with her the usual trepidation over what her generally questionable taste in plays will serv...

After her tenure running the Bush got interrupted soon after she took over, Lynette Linton continues to put her stamp on the venue by direc...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: Press Night for this is next week. This may mean the running time issue I mention later in this review may have been imp...

Regular readers of this blog will both know I traditionally have certain reservations about musical theatre pioneers Richard Rodgers & ...

Six Greek tragedies in four hours, told through the medium of Dutch Doom Metal? Ivo van Hove must be in town. And given what he deposited o...

Just as there are a lot of actors who get forever identified with one role, there are also roles that get identified strongly with one acto...

After what was meant to be a busy couple of weeks of theatregoing got derailed by me catching Covid, my first show back since testing negat...

After a couple of years kept away from Stratford-upon-Avon by Miss Rona, followed by a further delay caused by Miss Eunice, it is at least ...

Future Dame Nicola Walker gets the top billing she's always deserved as the Lyttelton revives The Corn is Green , Emlyn Williams' s...

Ché Walker wrote Wolf Cub in Atlanta, in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election in 2016. While people around the world wondered how ...

Following Stephen Sondheim's recent death, I'm sure we're going to be getting a whole slew of new revivals commemorating a lege...

All of a sudden we're getting to see everything Mike Bartlett kept himself busy with during lockdown, with his second premiere in the s...

Mike Bartlett has played around with pastiche in the past, never more successfully than when King Charles III took Shakespearean themes an...

After Covid kept me away from Stratford-upon-Avon for two years, the aftermath of 1990s Gladiators winner Storm Eunice kept me away a bit ...

It's hard enough trying to keep up with everything going on in London theatre without adding Broadway to the mix, but even so I can...