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A new West End adaptation, starring Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist, recasts Annie Proulx's 1997 short story as a memory play.
Christina Bianco brings her exuberant solo show to the Menier for a short, very sweet run, with Ryan MacKenzie her ace accompanist
Play about a onetime Broadway smash surely has Broadway in its sights
Plays about the theatre are many and varied, from Gypsy and Noises Off to the numerous Shakespeare works that absorb the…
Onetime Tony-winner Brid Brennan ("Dancing at Lughnasa") delivers bigtime as a fierce matriarch fresh out of prison
2019 Off Broadway musical comes to London in a powerfully sung production directed by Whitney White and starring Eleanor Worthington-Cox, a onetime Matilda
Modern-day classic returns to the building where it was first seen in London
It's saying a lot when a production lives up to its gasp-inducing set. That's the happy case with Josie Rourke's …
Comedy classic plays up the pain that comes with pleasure
It's not often with Private Lives that you feel Amanda and Elyot are one step away from a visit to A&E. But such is the startli…
Self-harm, lashings, child prostitution, rape: Ivo van Hove's adaptation of the 2015 novel tests the audience's trauma threshold.
Olivier nominee Danny Lee Wynter makes his playwriting debut in a play starring himself, Ako Mitchell, and Dyllón Burnside, from the TV series 'Pose'
Elliott Evans takes the title role in this latest iteration of a still-problematic, slow-aborning musical, here directed by Hannah Chissick
Jenna Russell, in a break from her storied musicals career, plays the Scotswoman, Mill, in this fine revival of Zinnie Harris's elliptical if intriguing 2000 play, seen off Broadway in 2002
Anne Reid inherits Lois Smith's stage and screen role as Marjorie, opposite Olivier nominee Richard Fleeshman, late of the West End "Company"
Nicholas Hytner's heartbreaking ambulatory staging, at the Bridge Theater in London, finds new depths in the classic Broadway musical.
Willy Russell's play gets a renewed lease on life
Can lightning strike twice? Very much so, when it comes to Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell's much-revived solo play which I saw back in th…
In London, a stage show based on the popular TV series tries to capture the warmhearted appeal of the original.
The director Tinuke Craig follows up last summer's 'Jitney' with another bustling, boisterous play, this one a premiere from the Nigerian-British writer Diana Nneka Atuona; Sarah Parish star…
Sergo Vares and John Lightbody head the cast in Shakespeare's late Romance, which utilises both stages at the Globe for the first time.
Lydia Leonard, late of "Oslo," leads the cast of young writer Lulu Raczka's Jacobean mash-up, directed for the Almeida by the busy Rupert Goold.
New productions of "Medea" and "Phaedra" feature outstanding performances from Sophie Okonedo and Janet McTeer as women pushed to the edge.
Sabrina Wu, recently seen in "The Doctor," graduates to the solo part in critic-turned-playwright Ava Wong Davies's anatomy of love and loss
The art form needs to make room for lesser-known names, to refresh and enlarge the talent pool, our critic writes.
Hadley Fraser leads adroit new cast in third separate London showing of Ben Power's five-time Tony-winning play.
Onetime Girls Aloud pop star Cheryl makes a terrific West End debut in newly apposite thriller from Danny Robins
Katy Stephens is a magnificent, maleficent Titus in Jude Christian's all-female production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, complete with original songs
London's underground queer culture comes "above ground" for deliberately formless Royal Court show
