Theatre

Is the Playhouse becoming London’s venue of choice for American stars’ vanity projects? Matthew Perry (Chandler from Friends) chose it last year for his self-written piece The End of Longing, and in 2014...

The things I know about football could be counted on the fingers of the Venus de Milo, but - apart from Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, which is being turned into an opera, and maybe Bend it Like Beckham,...

The Diary of a Nobody is one of those books you're convinced you've read, until you see it staged and realise that either you've forgotten it, or the director had a completely different idea.   In the case...

There’s a real sense of occasion at the opening night for Young Marx in the Bridge Theatre – former NT-director Nick Hytner’s £12 million baby set in a glamorous and upscale precinct around the...

The first crime uncovered in Witness for the Prosecution is that this amazing space, the glorious council chamber of the LCC then GLC at County Hall has not been pressed into service for site specific theatre...

Rising playwright Chris Thompson had an intense debut with Carthage at the Finborough Theatre, written from extensive personal experience as a social worker in the young offenders programme. Also...

They’re all at it. Michael Grandage at the Duke of York’s, Jamie Lloyd at Trafalgar Studios – it’s not enough to produce a play any more, nowadays you have to have a thematic ‘season’ with the same...

Even as a kid I loved election nights, watching the results tot up on television, or when my parents were involved in local politics going with them to ‘the count’ and in my own right I’m not sure which...

We should never be afraid to attack sacred cows. And when sacred cows are also cash cows we should never be afraid to kick them in their milky udders and demand to know how our National Theatre made such a...

Filth, farce and absurdism are individually difficult to pull off so combining all three in a ripely uncensored 50th anniversary version of Joe Orton's Loot is high risk, but when it works it's excellent....