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Star of Bonekickers , Hugh Bonneville makes a rare venture to the stage in Shadowlands , William Nicholson's play about Narnia author C...

After an incredibly high-profile couple of years on the Wicked promotional tour that blurred the lines between press junket and mental bre...

The Almeida will continue to have shows programmed in the Rupert Goold era running for the rest of this year, but for his final show there ...

Humans have a number of evolutionary ancestors, with some of the subspecies having co-existed in prehistoric times and fought for dominance...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry seemed like one of those shows I have an extreme reaction to: The sort of heartstring-tugging story ...

So far Indhu Rubasingham's approach to classics at the National has involved a quirky sensibility from her directors to keep things fee...

Scheduled at the Old Vic before his death but ending up serving as a tribute, Arcadia is probably Tom Stoppard's best-loved play - for...

I'm pretty convinced we're only a few years away from the point where all the new work ever produced will be some kind of adaptatio...

Maggots tells an inherently downbeat, pessimistic story but Farah Najib's writing constantly upends this, leaving you feeling like you...

Americans have a tendency to overestimate how much other countries share their national preoccupations, and you can't say that's no...

The Royal Court opens its seventieth anniversary year with one of its most notorious memes, although I'm not sure I would even count Lu...

Billy Crudup has returned to the West End, which could be seen as a brave move but at least he's learned his lesson and is doing his ow...

It's not explicitly described as an autobiographical show, but Levi Kreis (book, music and lyrics) and Dave Solomon's (additional b...

Three shows into 2026 and I'm already finding the unwelcome theme of shows that are really hard to review - whether that's because ...

Former Golden Girls guest star George Clooney made his Broadway debut last year in Good Night, and Good Luck , an adaptation of one of his...

While Paranormal Activity extends in the West End, Hampstead Theatre has its own go at the ghost story with the return of writer/director ...

I'm starting 2026 with a show that's already had some upheaval, as Omar Elerian's production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo...

Middling is a bit of a harsh word to describe an entire year, isn't it? And having now written my roundup of 2025 it doesn't really...

It's technically not a seasonal show, but you could argue my last live theatre trip of 2025 is very much a traditional one, since ghost...

For the Almeida's last show of the year the audience enters the Stalls via the side door by the dressing rooms; as we don't then en...