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The Winter's Tale is beautifully judged

14.04.09
The Winter's Tale at Stratford-Upon-Avon is a fine start to the RSC's 2009 ensemble season.... more

New Lyric chief promises to surprise

15.10.08
Sean Holmes, the director whose work includes an acclaimed revival of The Entertainer, is to be the new head of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith... more

Spyski is Wilde send up of Bond

14.10.08
A lovably ramshackle set and props are a large part of Spyski's charm along with the cracking script from John Nicholson.... more

He has battled alcohol and depression, but as Brian Conley returns to the stage he reveals how he has overcome his demons with a smile

26.06.08
Brian Conley loves turning life into theatre. He dressed as a knight in shining armour to propose to his wife, Anne-Marie, borrowing a horse from Pinewood Studios. ... more

On stage: sex and indie rock in the 19th century

20.05.08
A hit Broadway musical based on a banned 19th- century play about teenagers discovering sex is coming to London... more

Pinter's birthday treat

13.05.08
A shocking, triumphant return for Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party almost 50 years since every theatre critic but one poured scorn and worse upon it.... more

Absurd exercise in snooping

03.04.08
David Farr's Contains Violence is a dull and pretentious attempt to 'take theatre in new directions,' says Nicholas De Jongh.... more

An insight into violence

18.03.08
Writer and director David Rosenberg reveals why his new play Contains Violence will make voyeurs of us all.... more

Gangster gets his second wind

21.02.08
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui is a tale of two halves. Overburdened before the interval, it picks up exponentially in the second half.... more

Sly men and monsters

19.02.08
As the film version of the hit books The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency prepares to hit the screens, we chat to Zimbabwean actor Lucia Msamati.... more

Crawl from the wreckage

15.01.08
The brainchild of adaptors/directors David Farr and Gísli Orn Gardarsson, Metamorphosis is an enjoyable nightmare of an evening.... more

Water must be carefully filtered

25.10.07
Anyone convinced that theatre is for the terminally unhip should take a look at all the gizmos they've got onstage in Water.... more

Inside the mind of a teenager who killed

25.10.07
Looking for JJ is a gripping 90-minute upsetting of any received views about a child who kills one of her peers.... more

Global warming tale that doesn't hold water

22.10.07
Filter's well-acted but uninspired three-hander looks at our inability to work together to solve problems like global warming.... more

Absolute Beginners grow up

24.04.07
A new stage adaptation of the 1958 cult novel puts back what the sanitised film version left out, says director Liam Steel - all the sex, race and rock'n'roll. ... more

Myth lost in modernity

15.02.07
David Farr's adaptation of Ramayana, a several-thousand-year-old Hindu myth, is daring but lacks a poetic touch, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Crushing the beetle

05.10.06
There's a lot of athletic movement - but no great excitement - in this adaptation of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

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