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I have absolutely nothing against the increasing amount of musicals based on movies; since they began to appear a century ago musicals have...

Heading into what could be an odd season of programming at Hampstead, with no funding and no artistic director, it looks like transfers and...

Not only do the shows cancelled for the 2020 lockdown keep coming back to life, it does seem like that lost year of theatre had an extraord...

Now pretty firmly established as the Almeida's current big-draw director, Rebecca Frecknall tackles her first Shakespeare at the venue,...

If theatre has a tendency for unintended themed programming, where a number of creatives simultaneously decide to tackle similar ideas, the...

There's a tendency for previously obscure ideas or stories to get multiple interpretations all at once. Sometimes the coincidence just ...

Honestly, I feel like I've been here before ... The Old Vic premiered Danny Rubin (book) and Tim Minchin's (music & lyrics) Gro...

Sometimes I hit a pleasingly strong streak of shows and the last few weeks seem to have been one of those - but did all the best ones have ...

A week ago I saw the spoof Bleak Expectations , this week it's the turn of the actual Charles Dickens (Chickens to his friends,) althou...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: I saw the show a couple of nights before Press Night. When she became a teen mother Hope (Laura Checkley) abandoned her...

I may have to consciously try to keep this review short, because I suspect it's either that or sit up all night writing a dissertation ...

Sean Holmes liked a touch of European avant garde theatre when he was running the Lyric Hammersmith, and since coming to Shakespeare's ...

Regent's Park opens its 2023 Open Air Theatre season with Once On This Island , Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty'...

We've had films and TV get stage adaptations, now radio gets in on the act; it ended on Radio 4 eleven years ago, but like its characte...

Back to @sohoplace, the theatre with a name so current it's planning on upgrading to Windows ME any day now. In what, quite frankly, I ...

The production companies that last year brought Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park to the Park Theatre return, with another early hit from a...

After lockdown, the RSC decided to keep the Swan theatre closed for refurbishment, so this is my first trip back there for over three years...

Previously at Shakespeare's Globe... the theatre was the target of hate, protests and threats when they staged a play about how celebri...

I may be wrong - he's nothing if not prolific after all - but Leaves of Glass might be the last remaining full-length Philip Ridley pl...

A play full of references to the ravages of ageing could be taken as a bit of an on-the-nose way for a new Artistic Director to introduce h...