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I've had varied responses to American playwright Rajiv Joseph's work so far, a writer fond of surreal history plays focusing on peo...

It's not quite Paddington but Ben Ockrent's Relics also begins with a bear going on a journey: As the safety curtain goes up on J...

So far Indhu Rubasingham's first year running the National has provided a run of hit shows for other directors, but the ones she's ...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is one of those books considered unfilmable and unstageable, which inevitably means people have at...

An on-and-off hit in New York - it's opened and closed there multiple times since its original Broadway run was scuppered by Covid - Ed...

Look, none of us are perfect, I never said I always choose which shows to see for the purest of reasons, and whomst amongst us can say they...

30 years after graduating I still feel compelled to see the four plays I worked on in my directing module at university, whenever I hear of...

Although there's no sign of The Musical making a return any time soon, the three original, lo-fi comedy shows from Zachary Hunt, Natha...

While I'm generally happy to trust in Rupert Goold's judgement and have been booking every show in his final Almeida season, the an...

The Royal Court Upstairs seems to be making a new specialist subject out of hardcore prawn of the most disturbing and misogynistic kind, as...

1960s British farces rarely get revived these days, generally because they're built on attitudes and situations that haven't exactl...

Musical theatre performers sometimes turn their hand to writing for the genre, and this is not the first time I've seen one of the res...

Although the run of popular Shakespeares that make up most of the 2026 Globe season are clearly going to be the big sellers, for me the sho...

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...