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King's Head, LondonIt would be lovely to be able to say that this play " billed by the King's Head as an unperformed play by Oscar Wilde " is a lost masterpiece. But if the proof of the pudd…
Young Vic, LondonKurt Weill's musical snapshot of New York brownstone life is a strange beast, but often a beautiful one, too, full of lush melodies and jazzy skips. Borrowing from Puccini, …
Trafalgar Studios, LondonPlaywrights, like policemen, are getting younger. Teenage writers are now regularly found at the Royal Court, but when 18-year-old Christopher Hampton wrote this pla…
Bush, LondonIt's hard to make that final exit. Particularly after 40 years. That's how long the Bush has been "a tiny box of magic" perched above a pub on Shepherd's Bush Green, west London.…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsThe British musical just got more interesting with the arrival of Richard Taylor and David Wood's exquisitely layered version of LP Hartley's novel about a you…
Northern Stage, NewcastleThe sports coach is trying to account for his team's poor season. He begins with platitudes, but then veers from the script. The woman he loves has left him, life af…
Some big-name openings this week, including the new Mike Leigh play Grief, Andrew O'Hagan's The Missing, and The Wire's Dominic West and Clarke Peters reunite in OthelloAnother pretty busy w…
Tricycle, LondonBelfast men don't dance. They don't talk much, either. During the 1950s and 60s, they left Belfast in their droves for jobs digging the roads and tunnels of England. They lef…
Theatre 503, LondonThere are echoes of Chekhov's Three Sisters in Chilean playwright Juan Radrigán's play, inspired by the true story of three Andean sisters whose bodies were found in 19…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Where is the theatre responding to the recent riots, asking the hard questions about why so many feel disaffected? It might have been found in Stratford …
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Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThings are Grimm and then get grimmer for the heroine of this show from Kneehigh, a rackety fairytale shot through with the blues, an insouciant sauciness, and the p…
Theatremakers' use of digital technology is prone to malfunction, but without these pioneers, theatre would be a far duller placeWhen theatre performances moved inside buildings during the R…
Arcola, LondonThe cast play cows and pigeons with the same ease with which they tackle humans in this pleasing, often touchingly unadorned show directed by Complicite co-founder Marcello Mag…
Soho, London"We're not stealing," announces Jennifer Pick at the outset of this hour-long piece, created by theatre company Getinthebackofthevan and performed with Lucy McCormack. It's …
Young Vic, LondonRunt and Pig are out on the razzle in "Pork City", running amok as they play at being Bonnie and Clyde. But in Enda Walsh's explosive two-hander, the self-mythologising Iris…
New shows galore from north to south, with Will Eno adding a quirky, human touch and Stephen Poliakoff raising the human spirit with his first new play in 12 yearsThings are hotting up in th…
Tristan Bates, LondonWhen Elisa and Jane were children, they were always on tour with their dad and his magic act. Big sister Elisa wanted to be the one to disappear, but it was Jane, his di…
Barbican, LondonGeorg Büchner's soldier returns, but not quite as we know him, in the Handspring Puppet Company's version, which transposes the 19th-century drama of alienation and savage p…
Enjoy a new term of theatre with festivals in Brighton and Bristol, catch The Syndicate in Chichester or head to Nottingham for The AshesEdinburgh is soon to become a dim and distant memory,…
Gate, LondonThe classic American campus drama gets a makeover in David Davalos's spry, old-fashioned comedy, in which the traditional liberal US college is substituted for the Catholic Unive…
Union, LondonThis is by no means a travesty of a great drama, but the heartbeat of Federico GarcÃa Lorca's final play " written shortly before he was shot by the nationalist militia in 19…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJust four years after a superb chamber production at the Donmar Warehouse in London, Jason Robert Brown's unlikely musical gets a deserved revival, and it's a crac…
Riverside Studios, London"This is no time for salad," declares Kazumi, and you can't help feeling that the former high-school counsellor is right. Yet her companions, Masa and Hello Kitty, w…
Zoo Roxy, EdinburghHuw and his family live on a remote Welsh mountain, ekeing out a living clearing the forest. It is heavy work, and they need help, and it arrives in the form of Yann, a yo…
