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Mick Gordon and Billy Bragg's Pressure Drop addresses the subject of immigration with honesty and clarity.
As Sweet Charity transfers to the West End, veteran playwright Neil Simon discusses how he transformed Fellini's film Nights of Cabiria into a Broadway hit.
There are moments when David Essex's All The Fun of the Fair becomes genuinely touching.
Middleton's Women Beware Women at the National Theatre is dark, decadent and immensely stylish.
Marianne Elliott, who enjoyed a huge hit with War Horse, talks about her revival of Women Beware Women at the National.
Apart from one blaze of dramatic life, this new production of Edward Bond's Bingo, starring Patrick Stewart, is a downbeat start to what promises to be an exciting season at Chichester.
This is a timely and irresistibly vital revival of the greatest of all rock musicals.
It's powerfully acted, but Mark Haddon's Polar Bears is at once irritatingly arty and terminally depressing.
A production set in a care home reinvigorates an over-familiar play with intelligence, imagination and rare tenderness.
Tom Morris struck gold with War Horse - and, now running the Bristol Old Vic, he's setting Romeo and Juliet in a retirement home.
The Gods Weep by Dennis Kelly, starring Jeremy Irons, is a loose updating of King Lear - but what a poor shadow of Shakespeare it is.
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play Behzti, set in a Sikh gurdwara, caused riots - the fallout forced her into hiding. Her new work, Behud, directly addresses the controversy.
The actor on pink castles, dry-cleaning fluid and why he would rather go 'nurdling' than attend his own film premieres
The stage version of the story of a boy who dreams of becoming a ballet star has been seen by millions. On its fifth anniversary, we talk to the show's creators.
Two of theatre's biggest stars have rarely shared a stage, which is why they're so delighted to be starring together at the National.
Love Never dies is Andrew Lloyd Webber's finest show since the original Phantom of the Opera.
The soprano Katherine Jenkins sings the title track from Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical.
Christopher Walken commands the stage in an irresistible new play by Martin McDonagh.
Coward's Private Lives has lost none of its allure in a funny and sexy production with Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen.
Richard Eyre on what drew him to direct the violent but hilarious Private Lives starring Kim Cattrall.
As the principality gets its own national theatre, plays are going to be popping up at venues as diverse as a miners' institute and an Army firing range.
John Barrowman talks to Roya Nikkhah about his tiff with Lord Lloyd-Webber, his plans to adopt, and why reality TV is good.
Lucy Prebble and Polly Stenham are among a new generation of female playwrights leading the industry, according to Sir David Hare.
Sir David Hare, the leading writer and director, has warned that theatres are ignoring a new generation of talented female playwrights.
Ibsen's study of hypocrisy and the danger of hiding uncomfortable truths remains as dramatically alive as ever in Iain Glen's production.
