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It's imaginary. That's the genius of Sam Mendes' staging of this epic play, charting the history of the Lehman brothers, the three
Cirencester's newly opened Barn Theatre is really getting into its stride. A powerfully performed revival Jim Cartwright's classic marks the end of
Musicals theatre is no strangers to strange subjects " but this is something else. Back in the 1930s a German eccentric living
A medieval romance set to rock songs sounds a bit silly on paper. But instead of leaning into that silliness, and embracing
Dusty, Forever Dusty, Son of a Preacher Man and now Dusty again. The allure of Dusty Springfield jukeboxers is seemingly limitless. This
It's taken a long time to exorcise the ghost of Yul Brynner from The King and I. He played the King of
With a remit covering vocal techniques, teaching dialects and interpreting text, Kate Godfrey coaches the Royal Shakespeare Company's actors to make the
In this musical queering of American history Taylor Mac goes to some strange places. In essence the 24-hour show " which earned
Two arpeggios start Fun Home, like a tune a child would play after their first piano lesson. Suddenly they attach themselves to
It was always going to be hard to separate Jerusalem from memories of Mark Rylance. In Jez Butterworth's contemporary classic the part
In her book Lesbian Nation, Jill Johnston explained her conflict at taking part in a now infamous debate about feminism in 1971.
Cole Porter's 1948 musical is one of those shows with backstory and baggage. Supposedly based on wife and husband acting duo Lynn
Acis has one of the less glamorous transformations in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Other characters become birds or lions, but he is squashed by
August Strindberg's classic, in the hands of Polly Stenham and Carrie Cracknell, updated and enriched, is a piece that pulls in polar
Rather than a monologue, Rona Munro's adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's novel feels like 90 minutes of epilogue. The wistful tone, the crushing
Fourteen years before he won the Pulitzer Prize for August: Osage County, Tracy Letts made his playwriting debut with Killer Joe, a
Euripides' tragedy, a long wail by the women left behind after the sacking of Troy, has seen innumerable adaptations but none, perhaps,
No one really knows what "glaukopis Athena" means in Homer's Iliad, a text quoted frequently in Brian Friel's masterpiece. Friel translates it
Spectacle and subtlety meet in this rare revival of Kander and Ebb's 1984 musical, set across one day in a dilapidated roller
This production's done the rounds. After starting life at Leicester Curve in 2014 and flying around the UK several times with several
Andrew Lippa and Brian Crawley's adaptation of the beloved Frances Hodgson Burnett novel consists almost entirely of slushy ballads. The result is
Having started out as a junior costumier at Covent Garden four decades ago, Fay Fullerton has risen to lead the department. She
There's always something ingenious in productions by fringe opera company Pop-Up Opera. In this double bill of jaunty Mozart singspiele the company
JM Barrie's character has become a watchword for eternal youth. But that youth is often selfish, a desire to defy death, a
The National Theatre's production manager Tariq Rifaat has been getting his hands dirty, literally, while working on the set for Brian Friel's
