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The 12 shows you must see in London this Christmas

11.11.09
From posh panto to burlesque, London is full of festive entertainment. Here are a dozen shows that should entice children — and adults — into the theatre.... more

No laughing matter in Comedians

15.10.09
While Comedians certainly shouldn’t be booed offstage now, it’s not going to be gifted any slots on primetime television.... more

Pornography is explosion waiting to happen

07.08.09
It is a safe assumption that a play called Pornography is not going to flaunt explicit sexual content.... more

Playwright: my fears of an English Columbine

06.08.09
Writer of a play empathising with the 7/7 bombers is causing more controversy with a work about a bloody classroom shooting... more

Spellbinding shows at Latitude

20.07.09
It says something about the power of live theatre that a 500‑seat tent in the middle of a field was filled to overflowing at midnight on Saturday.... more

Lyric turns to classic panto

03.06.09
The theatre that shocked audiences with swearing in its Christmas show last year will present a traditional pantomime for the first time in 30 years under its new artistic director.... more

Extension will turn Lyric into theatre to train performers

02.06.09
Britain's first theatre devoted to teaching performers and arts managers of the future is to be established at the Lyric in Hammersmith... more

Farcical antidote to seasonal goodwill in Loot

16.12.08
Loot takes serious aim at an England eager to wear the trappings of respectability while succumbing to immorality.... more

Allen's Long John is silver lining in Treasure Island

18.11.08
The arrival of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island in the West End marks an early beginning to the season of festive family entertainment.... more

Arrgh! What's this? Long John Silver with no stump

13.11.08
Keith Allen makes his West End stage debut next week as Long John Silver... more

Twelfth Night is pared down to worthlessness

03.09.08
The surface might have been polished until it gleams but there is nothing meaningful underneath the voice-distorting microphones and synthesisers in Twelfth Night.... more

Explosive situation in Pornography

04.08.08
The talented Simon Stephens has taken no less of a subject than a suicide bomber on his deathly way to 7/7 London in Pornography. ... more

Moonlight and Magnolias puts wind up Hollywood

10.07.08
Here's a small hurrah for the proper, if not necessarily serious, drama that is Ron Hutchinson's Moonlight and Magnolias.... more

The English Game: Howzat? It very nearly bowled me over

15.05.08
Norman Tebbit's cricket test has had a good innings. ... more

Batsmen on a sticky wicket

13.05.08
A sluggish air hangs over Sean Holmes's The English Game; a plodding piece that attempts to saddle a game of amateur cricket with more weight than it could bear.... more

Flattened by good fortune

06.03.08
The Man Who Had All the Luck at the Donmar Warehouse is a minor but intriguing Arthur Miller play, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Frankly, it's a dear

02.10.07
Ron Hutchinson's script for Moonlight and Magnolias is at its blissful best when it becomes a fast-paced screwball comedy.... more

Fresh energy in Brecht's old legend

12.03.07
The Caucasian Chalk Circle arrives with enough energising, alienating bells and whistles to appeal to both Brecht purists and set-text weary students. ... more

Let me Entertainer you

08.03.07
Robert Lindsay triumphs in The Entertainer as John Osborne's powerful mix of nostalgia and comedy still proves relevant today.... more

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