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My mum remembers being about 20 and watching Judy Garland on Sunday Night at the London Palladium , promoting a series of London concerts t...

Many of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories have been put on the stage over the years, with various degrees of seriousness, bu...

Jishik Kim (book and lyrics) and Seungyeon Kwon's (music) The Last Man is the latest piece of K-culture to land in London, and it conf...

Piers Black's accurately-titled I'm Not Being Funny begins with an interesting high concept: A mix of bleak drama and stand-up com...

Alexander Zeldin's CARE takes place in a care home for the elderly, which Rosanna Vize's set design and James Farncombe's ligh...

Sarah Ruhl takes a decidedly metatheatrical stab at romantic comedy, a genre that over the years has seen many stage and screen couples emu...

I hope what I've seen so far of the 2026 summer season at Shakespeare's Globe isn't a sign of things to come, as it could spell...

The National Theatre's recent Importance of Being Earnest found a new angle by introducing a formidable Caribbean take on Lady Brackne...

Tim (Gerard Horan) is an established wildlife photographer - well-regarded and sometimes award-winning, but not quite successful enough to ...

Playing in the West End at the same time as one of his earlier plays that's starting to show its age, David Hare's latest one cons...

As the title gives away, Tom Wright's Please Please Me deals with the Beatles - or at least with the outsider credited with making the...

PREVIEW DISCLAIMER: The show has not yet officially opened to critics.    Dave Harris' Tender is the latest play to deal with a modern...

After Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx (both contributing music and lyrics) and Jeff Whitty's (book) Avenue Q closed (for the third time) its o...

A new production of Christopher Hampton's best-known play, an adaptation of a novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos at the Lyttelton, mar...

Former Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre Clint Dyer moves down the road to the Old Vic to direct a somewhat reimagined look ...

Anya Reiss' adaptation of A Doll's House is a faithful one in that it follows the story beats and motivations of Ibsen's origi...

Crumbling country estates have in recent years been at the centre of controversy over the suggestion that maybe the visitors, whose tourist...

Oh to be a fly on a rehearsal room wall: "OK Stuart, so we're going for the big finale now and you're giving us some of your m...

When Copenhagen was scheduled for a revival at Hampstead Theatre it probably felt like a timely choice because of the recent success of Fa...

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 ...