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As theatres around the country sparkle up with sequins and dial up their dames for panto season, Rufus Norris' National turns to
Last year, pantomime producing giants Qdos brought festive fun back to the London Palladium with its gloriously excessive Cinderella, which saw seasoned
Welcome to The Jungle. Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's debut full-length play " a co-production from the Young Vic, the National and
Northampton Royal and Derngate's Aladdin claims it has "everything you could wish for in a panto". As far as I can tell,
On a white-lined square of astro turf, with autumn leaves piled in the corners and a streetlamp blinking pink overhead, Will Mytum
The loneliest time of the year: Jonny and the Baptists' Christmas show has brilliant songs and a big heart.
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This is the second stage adaptation of Alexander Mackendrick’s tired old Ealing comedy to reach Ipswich this year, but where Peter Rowe’s
What to make of this? Julia Jarcho's Obie award-winning 2013 three-hander here making its UK premiere in a lightly immersive staging created
There’s a unique delight in seeing Tony Christie fumble out gags about his sparkling back catalogue to a baffled audience of entirely
It’s Rapunzel, but not as we know it. Cambridge Junction’s Christmas show, a co-production with Valentina Ceschi and Thomas Eccleshare’s Dancing Brick,
Timely vitality: James Fritz's intense, sprawling new play is a call to action.
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Lifting its title from a line in Hamlet, and also focusing on the increasingly alarming behaviour of a young man mourning his
New Wolsey artistic director Peter Rowe and long-time panto partner-in-crime Ben Goddard have hit upon a winning festive formula: their annual 'rock
Everybody really is talking about Jamie. Tom MacRae’s new musical turned heads when it premiered in Sheffield last year, and it’s turning
Anders Lustgarten’s new play The Secret Theatre inhabits the same historical moment as Schiller’s Mary Stuart " the late 1580s, with Elizabeth
For more than 75 years, the Little Theatre Movement has been staging pantomimes in Jamaica's capital, starting with very British-style offerings, but
Last December, Belgian big-shot Ivo van Hove’s production of Hedda Gabler opened on the National’s Lyttelton stage, a radical revival that the
David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, now revered as an all-American classic, actually started its life in London. Its first production came courtesy
Contractions is like a site-specific episode of Black Mirror. Emma (Abigail Poulton), a chirpy, cheery salesman at an unnamed international company, is
Roger Gellert’s only play, Quaint Honour, received its world premiere in 1958 at the Arts Theatre, where it was able to dodge the
Comedy writing duo Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong share an impressive CV " sketch writers for Mitchell and Webb, co-creators of the
There are misjudged artistic decisions and then there’s this. The inaugural production of Latimer Road’s new Playground Theatre is an outrageously sexist,
Stewart Pringle’s Papatango prize-winning two-hander is the sort of play you want to take your gran to: a modest not-quite-love story brimming with gentle humour
There’s one big problem with reworking The Invisible Man for the theatre. See if you can spot it. No, it’s him. Over
Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, who together ran the National Theatre for 12 years and oversaw some of the biggest theatrical smash-hits
