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Halfway into the decade that started with the Covid pandemic, and I can't be the only one whose perception of time continues to be pret...

Rebecca Frecknall returns to the major Tennessee Williams plays at the Almeida and, with The Glass Menagerie having been done to death in ...

Crazy to think Tom Stoppard has spent an entire career writing plays about human beings, despite all the evidence suggesting he's never...

Look, I don't book everything expecting it to be high art, and sometimes I'll book things with the express hope that it won't b...

In among the Greek mythology that's been more present than ever on London stages lately is a more family-friendly version than the usua...

This year's Twelfth Night productions have leaned extra heavily on the idea of the play as a melancholy one, and while the cliché abou...

In what can reasonably be called an alternative to the cheery festive fare at most other theatres, the Young Vic offers up a winter show so...

Oscar Wilde's famous comedy about an imaginary friend who seems to have a busier social life than any of the "real" character...

Maybe we should change the theory that most playwrights secretly just want to write a ghost story, and accept that all  of them do. America...

The latest winter season at Shakespeare's Globe will include a major playwright who's never appeared in the Swanamaker before, but ...

Taking two Netflix stars closely associated with Madrid and Paris and throwing them together in a third European city, Bess Wohl's Barc...

After being very disappointing in 2023, Hampstead Theatre has been getting back into my good books this year, and a strong autumn season co...

Following Beru Tessema's well-received House of Ife , the playwright returns to the Bush for another story with family at its heart, bu...

Poor the Jodie Whittaker, they keep doing her dirty. I still maintain, based on what I've seen of her in interviews, that she could hav...

The Donald and Margot Warehouse celebrates the start of its Timothy Sheader era by hiking the price of my preferred seats by almost 150%, s...

For the second week in a row Phill and I went to a show we'd had tickets to for over a year, and after that wait we can now definitivel...

Transferring to Southwark Playhouse's Little from Ipswich, Joanna Carrick's The Ungodly starts during the Civil War, continuing th...

One of this year's best-reviewed Edinburgh shows gets a limited London run as musical comedy duo Flo & Joan take on writing duties,...

As well as being one of the most famous man-made landmarks on Earth, Taj Mahal in Agra, India is known as something of a romantic symbol of...

Welp, October's been a busy theatrical month for me and certainly one with a certain prevailing tone - the odd dud among a very high ra...