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Ava Pickett’s award-winning play set during Henry VIII’s reign transfers to the West End and retains every bit of its power

In these early moments, it seems as if his Godot – unkempt, straggle-haired, bushy-bearded – might have dementia. It makes sense. This is a play about memory, about the dominance…

If you’ve been waiting for the perfect excuse to book a night out in the West End, this is it. LOVEtheatre Week is back, bringing with it a simple but…

Jack Thorne is one of the country’s very best creative talents, the screenwriter behind little series like Adolescence, Toxic Town, This Is England and the new version of Lord of…

Rebecca Lucy Taylor is storming the West End in a play about how the music industry treats women. But she had already confronted the reality of the business — as…

The show starts as it means to go on, with the entrance of Duke Theseus (Enyi Okoronkwo, underpowered) and Queen Hippolyta (Audrey Brisson, vampish). His lines about conquering her are…

The joke is that Fiennes and Irving, both popular stars with an unwavering commitment to the stage, also both project a pained seriousness of manner. Here, in 1878, Irving recruits…

In Punch, we also saw the buildup to and impulsive enactment of the pivotal crime. In Mass, it’s not even named until we’re 30 minutes into the 90-minute running time,…

The story of how this Jewish, Liverpudlian record-shop manager discovered and shaped the band that changed the world, and how they arguably abandoned him, is sketchily but over-literally reiterated by…

Arthur Miller’s post-Depression play is unsurprisingly timely again at the Marylebone Theatre