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Here we are then, for the last two years I haven't wanted to call my annual roundup a "Theatre Review of the Year" because fo...

I haven't regularly been to Christmas pantomime since Tom Wells stopped writing the Lyric Hammersmith one, but Ian McKellen returning t...

I said before that it takes something really distinctive to make me consider seeing one of the many stage versions of A Christmas Carol ou...

Warning, the first couple of rows may get wet: Yes, Rebecca Frecknall's production of A Streetcar Named Desire stars the Internet'...

I had mixed feelings about booking for Sons of the Prophet : Stephen Karam's last play at Hampstead Theatre was That American Play Whe...

After last year's Metamorphoses , another winter's evening of adult - sometimes very adult - storytelling by candlelight at the Swa...

My eccentric reasons for booking shows can result in some disastrous choices as well as unearthing some hidden gems. The fact that I realis...

Two years ago when theatre made an (unsuccessful) attempt to come out of Covid into the lucrative Christmas show season, there was no short...

With the changing understanding of gender, and the arrival of bankable non-binary stars like Emma Corrin in recent years, it's not surp...

The Dorfman's final piece of new writing of 2022 takes a despairing look at the polarisation of opinion by politics and class in modern...

Othello must be one of the most-frequently performed Shakespeare plays at the National Theatre, and the latest production by Deputy Artisti...

Whoa, Baghdaddy (Bam-ba-lam) Jasmine Naziha Jones' wildly hyperactive playwrighting debut Baghdaddy deals with the guilt of a woman who...

Paul Miller directs his final show as Artistic Director of the Orange Tree, and it's no real surprise that it involves one of the two c...

Southwark Playhouse's current home on Newington Causeway has been rechristened Southwark Playhouse Borough, to differentiate it from th...

This year's second London  Henry V is a radically different beast than the Donmar's bombastic war epic , and different in fact fro...

Joe White's Blackout Songs is an alcoholic love story, which Guy Jones' production plays as a kind of twisted rom-com: Anisha Fiel...

When Stuart Brayson (music) Tim Rice (lyrics) and Bill Oakes' (book) musical adaptation of From Here To Eternity debuted in the West E...

When a planned revival of last year's Yes So I Said Yes fell through, the Finborough Theatre avoided going dark for a month by scheduli...

Rona Munro's second James Plays trilogy has kicked off in Scotland (hopefully with a London run in its future) with James IV , but bef...

John Halder (David Tennant) is a University literature professor and author of a few well-received novels, whose generally happy life does ...