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If, as she says, Corrie and EastEnders veteran Michelle Collins wants to shed her 'soap actress' image, she needs to find bolder challenges than Stewart Permutt's comic but empty two-hander A Dark Night in...

There are few theatrical pleasures greater than witnessing the formidable Imelda Staunton graft fresh insights onto a well-known role: it can be almost as exhausting to watch as to do since you can't look...

If you can get a ticket - and queues for returns have started before 6am - there's every chance you’ll love the Almeida Hamlet even if you’re not specifically lusting after Andrew Scott (Moriarty from...

When Chicago premiered in 1975 it shook up its prohibition-era hoodlums and chorus girls with a fizzing cocktail of jazz, booze, sex and Bob Fosse choreography standing what had been the former Broadway image...

Anyone Can Whistle: the Sondheim flop whose signal moment in the original 1964 production was when a dancer fell into the orchestra pit, inadvertently killing the saxophonist. Another actor had a fatal heart...

Are standards slipping at English National Opera? It’s one thing to rent the place out to Michael Grade in a slack period and smile and pretend to be nice when he casts Katherine Jenkins in a leading...

There are few divas for whom you would queue an hour in the pouring rain on a cold night in January, but it was almost worth getting trench foot to witness the extraordinary, uplifting, generous and eclectic...

Best I can say about Dirty Great Love Story is it could make a great date night for Valentine’s Day because your own relationship will seem so much better than dopy Richard and neurotic Katie’s in this...

You want topical? You want immediate? While the Trumpleprotest filed down Whitehall outside, in Trafalgar Studios Stuart Slade’s Black-Mirror-dark London-centric BU21 delivered six interconnected young...