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a new comedy from Richard Bean and Clive Coleman about the early life in London of Karl Marx as a young reprobate
Macmillan's play is a timely depiction of the physical, psychological, and social impact of addiction. It's hard to imagine the sundry crafts of theater being brought together more expertl…
Anna Ziegler uses tennis as metaphor for the universal game of life. Anna Ziegler uses tennis as metaphor for the universal game of life. Though you don't have to be…
Mike Bartlett has compared his play to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Others are saying that this is Britain's first serious Brexit play
Though popular in O'Neill's day, the Freudian asides and marathon running time have proved stumbling blocks for later audiences. But Greenspan's marathon approach may have found the sec…
After almost half a century Harvey Fierstein's story about drag queen Arnold Beckoff's quest for a satisfying love and family life is dated, an artifact of gay history on stag…
Zeller's play puts a new slant on the French reputation for a relaxed attitude towards infidelity
Hannan's play looks at the politician Enoch Powell and the impact his speech about the nation had on a generatiib
Playwright William Donnelly t doesn't always manage to make the glib banter and more painful undercurrents mesh fluidly, there is a lot that's heart-touching and compelling here.
For most of its 100 minutes, John Doyle's production doubles its pleasures. That's even though the running time has probably been cut to half of its usual length and there a…
The big hit from Broadway arrives in London telling the tale of the most unlikely peace process in secret talks between the Israelis and the PLO.
Howard Brenton's intriguing play looks at the playwright August Strindberg's time in Paris reflecting on his life and obsessions
Avant-garde and absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco was born in Slatina, Romania to a Romanian father and a French-Romanian mother, and he wrote mostly in French. Not surprisingly, one does …
David Storey's play was a prequel to his novel Pasmore and comes from a theatre company dedicated to illustrating what is extraordinary about people's ordinary lives
Michael Yates Crowley's uses a ambitious exploration of a persistent rape culture as experienced by an American high school girl
Tina Howe's worthy but flawed real-surreal new play about climate change and aging
Conor McPherson's play with many Bob Dylan songs set in hiis birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota
F Murray Abraham stars in a play about the agonies of writing
James Graham's new play looks at Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of The Sun newspaper
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins's play about New York magazine journalism stirs up the industry at Hampstead Theatre
Soulpepper's home grown comedy hit that seeded a TV sitcom is live and lively again on 42nd Street
Jim Steinman's musical Bat out of Hell finally gets a staging forty years on . . .
A formidably talented cast forcefully brings Abe Koogler's unhappy characters to life in this world premiere at MTC's smallest venue
Claire Lizzimore's play may be providing a heavy dose of the psychotic. But who will complain when its being doled out by the terrific Rebecca Hall.
You gotta have heart and this little show has it despite plot and other problems . . .
