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Ellen McDougall makes debut at Shakespearean winter theatre with up-to-date Moorish play
The American playwright Lindsey Ferrentino's makes her UK debut with this play about a war veteran, played by Fleetwood, who experiments with virtual reality therapy, to heal her emotio…
Robert Icke's modern dress production of 'Hamlet', starring 'Sherlock' actor, Scott with Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude, may be too slow, but it is not to be missed
The immersive fantasy created for Vault Festival 2017 has a devilish pop-up bar with an interactive performance and a loose plotline
Tamsin Grieg plays Malvolia, a traditionally male role, in Simon Godwin's new modern-dress production of Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity, joining the ranks of gre…
Played on a muddy stage, Joe Hill-Gibbins bleak production of Shakespeare's comedy, is going to divide audiences
This darkly comic musical set in Manhattan in the 1920s is about a vaudeville showgirl and vaudeville clown who decide to throw a debauched party like no other
Victoria Yeates, who plays Sister Winifred in 'Call The Midwife', is starring in a new touring production of 'The Crucible', based on the Salem witch trials
Alex MacKeith's debut play, based on his own experience of tutoring in schools is powerful and poignant
Real-life sex workers take to the stage, in a production about prostitution, directed by Mimi Poskitt, with song and dance
The two-part play scooped up the likes of Best New Play, Best Actor in a Play, Best Supporting Actor in a Play, and Best Supporting Actor in a Play
The show about the rivalry between cycling superstars, Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani, dramatises a clash of personalities and their fall from grace
Bourne's triple bill of early works, which marks 30 years since he launched his own dance company, show that many of his strengths were already in place
Simon McBurney's compelling co-production between his own Complicite company and Schaubühne Berlin, is based on Stefan Zweig's 1939 novel, about a man's downfall after he tri…
Kathryn Hunter plays the matriarch who is grieving her husband's death and bans her five daughters from leaving the house, but the performance with the disabled acting company Graeae, d…
This re-worked piece on the suppression of women by a disabled-led company offers a different perspective without preaching
Sandi Toksvig's comedy, set in an old people's care home, is about the plight of the elderly, but it is also a message against the treatment of senior actresses, who don't get…
Writing plays for a living is not the easiest of professions - but whether you have a hit or wait patiently - it's all about not giving up
As part of the London International Mime Festival, 'Kiss & Cry', stars a duo of dancing hands, small-scale sets and cinematography, to evoke memories of past loves
Lines blur between reality and fantasy in Titus Halder's debut play, starring Ben Aldridge as a man losing his sanity, which is directed by Hannah Price, with a live electronic score
The lyric change to include 'and sisterhood' drew roars of approval from the Super Bowl audience
The two-hander, starring Emilia Fox and Theo James, which is written by Laura Eason, a scriptwriter on 'House of Cards', is a comedy about love and literary ambition in the digital…
Renewed interest in seminal novel comes as Donald Trump lashes out at 'fake news' and adviser Kellyanne Conway coins distinctly Orwellian phrase 'alternative facts'
Director Ann Ryan's candlelit production of John webster's 'The White Devil' at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, is the perfect setting for the play about deceit, treachery a…
The critically acclaimed playwright reveals what inspired him to write 'Love'
