The latest theatre news, West End reviews, show guides, and behind-the-scenes features from British Theatre's editorial team.
Kate Wasserberg, the award-winning founder and artistic director of The Other Room in Cardiff, is to join Max Stafford-Clark and producer Martin Derbyshire to lead Out of Joint, the theatre company specialising in touring and new writing.
Mark Ludmon
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A production of Molière’s classic comedy, The Misanthrope – performed in English and French – is coming to London’s Drayton Arms Theatre.
Mark Ludmon
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There is little drama, and no dramatic stakes are raised, and for that reason it may struggle to be remembered in the lexicon of gay drama. However, that is …
Paul T Davies
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A new cast has been announced for the London production of The Play That Goes Wrong as it continues on its path to world domination.
Mark Ludmon
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A new musical based on classic 1970s sitcom The Liver Birds is to be presented for one night only at The Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.
Mark Ludmon
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Go for the music, and you'll have a ball.
Julian Eaves
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The Goat is a fascinating play by one of America’s greatest playwrights; a depiction of life utterly undone by an unforgivable transgression. Damian Lewis an…
Matthew Lunn
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Treading similar terrain as the recently seen 'Mrs Henderson Presents', it has an infectious score, well-written dialogue, and a story that revolves around m…
Julian Eaves
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This is a worthwhile exercise, it is well produced, well acted and well nigh bound to leave you thinking that, as far as the development of nineteenth centur…
Julian Eaves
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Aside from the device of making it an all-female cast, this is a powerful, enjoyable production. It may lose some of the masculine menace of the original but…
Mark Ludmon
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It touches on the brutality of the death penalty at a time when the number of executions is on the rise around the world but it is ultimately a sharply writt…
Mark Ludmon
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We are going to have to find a new word for disabled, as this company rubs the President’s face in that word. This is a wonderful production- feel it, hear i…
Paul T Davies
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Finborough Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s scarcely seen Incident at Vichy does great justice to a play that deserves a far wider audience. Compellin…
Matthew Lunn
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