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A Henry V that doesn't feel horribly topical when a foreign war is launched to distract from a domestic crisis must be as rare as one ...

The ultimate accolade shouldn't be a gold record, it should be a golden hypodermic. Parklife! David Hare's play with songs  Teeth A...

At last, the musical about antimicrobial resistance that someone, somewhere has presumably been clamouring for! Alexander Fleming (Alan Vic...

What if, instead of giving a written instruction to a servant who can't read, you gave it to one who can? If Capulet (Clark Gregg) had ...

Like a female version of Inua Ellams' Barber Shop Chronicles , Jocelyn Bioh's 2024 play Jaja's African Hair Braiding spans a w...

Set at the height of #MeToo in 2018, Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor is the Villain asks how 16-year-old girls would respond to that...

Sarah Power's Welcome to Pemfort had kind of gone under my radar - as anything buried somewhere in the clutter of Soho Theatre's s...

Nicholas Wright's 2002 play Vincent in Brixton is a work of fiction, but it does have its basis in a few interesting facts, for exampl...

Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk was written in 1904, the year Anton Chekhov died; Nina Raine and Moses Raine's new version for the Nation...

Joe (George Naylor) is an out-of-work actor with a thing for posh boys, who's working in a bar when one of the regulars offers him a we...

After a wobbly start to the Young Vic's new regime - a Mr Sloane that bafflingly ironed the gay out of Joe Orton, and a Bengal Tiger ...

Alexi Kaye Campbell throws a little dig at himself in Bird Grove , as a male writer telling the story of how women's voices needed to b...

Shakespeare's Globe's winter season is one they can't really make a profit out of due to the Swanamaker's size, so traditio...

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...