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Seven Jewish Children row rumbles on.
Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind gets its first London revival and a great performance from Janie Dee.
Rupert Goold 's production of King Lear trumps on almost every front, with one of the truest, most empathetic Lears in memory.
Steven Berkoff's On the Waterfront gives us a prodigious display of technique. Unfortunately, the emotional connection is sorely lacking.
Uncomfortably spanning several eras, this threadbare revival ends up fit for none
A stellar team breathes new life into Chekhov's poignant tale of dreams deferred and destroyed.
Broadway by the Year is back for its ninth season. The year in question for the first concert was 1924, and it was every bit as good or better than previous musicals in the series.
The Story of My Life is a sweet two-hander -maybe too sweet for a life on Broadway.
Sister Aloysius explains it all for you...
Frost/Nixon has made a successful move from stage to celluloid. Here the two halves of the title have come into perfect balance.
This revival of the Joe Orton classic is good, but it could have been superb with a more charismatic actor in the title role.
Some cabaret artists get by on personality. Betty Buckley definitely has one - as warm and engaging as her voice - but she's also a glorious singer who needs no gimmickry to get a song acros…
Austin Pendleton has given us a superficial take on one of Chekhov's major works. The youthful star potential is just that: potential
This wild and sprawling hymn to multiculturalism is not perfection, but it's just the kind of play the National should be doing.
Shakespeare's Globe Goes for the Heart
Duchess to host Ronald Harwood double bill of Collaboration and Taking Sides
Enjoy is a seriously funny social satire on the disappearing life-style of the lower middle-classes
There are many inspired moments in this revival of Uncle Vanya ...unfortunately, there are plenty of false notes, too.
It really doesn't matter whether it's a stand-up comedy act or a genuine work of theater. Bottom line is, it's very, very funny.
In Donald Margulies' new play, we'd prefer the central character to be more fully conjured up...more than a mere entertainment.
Lynn Nottage has come up with might well be the unlikeliest love story of the theater season.
Joe Orton's early play is commendably revived. The flow from comedy into violence and back again is cleverly exploited by an expert cast.
Operetta - lovers of 1932 weren't wowed, so why expect to be smitten?
The potential pleasure in seeing Kathleen Turner go toe to toe with Charles Busch is short-circuited in Busch's The Third Story -too many storylines make for a convoluted plot.
A classic done right demands a trek to the wilds of New Jersey
