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Black Cat hopes to charm the West End

19.10.09
All-black cast of a new West End production of the Tennessee Williams classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof began rehearsals... more

Hot tickets: London's going out guide

28.09.09
Debbie Allen's innovative production of Tennessee Williams's modern classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof comes to London.... more

The play's the thing, as theatres rediscover drama this autumn

16.09.09
Londoners are being invited to make the play the thing this autumn as a cavalcade of stars prepares to tread the boards... more

Cate Blanchett suffers head injury during fight scene

03.09.09
Cate Blanchett will be back on stage in Sydney tonight after suffering a head injury during a fight scene, forcing the cancellation of the performance mid-show... more

Rachel Weisz mesmerizes in magical Streetcar Named Desire

29.07.09
This production has both realism and magic, and makes A Streetcar Named Desire seem a resonantly modern tragedy.... more

Be honest, every older woman wants a gigolo

11.03.09
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McAvoy is pulling power in Three Days of Rain

11.02.09
The magnificently acted Three Days of Rain doesn't engage or emerge as coloured more than a paler shade of grey.... more

A cast adrift in Small Craft Warnings

15.09.08
Bill Bryden directs an engaging, well orchestrated revival of late, under-par Tennessee Williams tragi-comedy Small Craft Warnings.... more

Steamy sex in Street Scene

18.07.08
There is nothing quite like Street Scene's fascinating hybrid of opera and Broadway musical, says Nicholas de Jongh. ... more

Liberal affair lacks passion

14.05.08
Haughty Greta Scacchi fails to create a storm in The Deep Blue Sea as it sketches a portrait of grey, puritan England, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Spellbinding tale of confused smother love

12.05.08
Amazing performances seal the success for That Face; 21-year-old Polly Stenham's play about a twisted family and incest.... more

Comedy and pathos in store

08.05.08
While Levi David Addai's play, Oxford Street, remains plot-lite, its undercurrents of comedy and pathos keep the 85-minute evening buoyant.... more

Frutos at his finest

29.04.08
Javier De Frutos’s direction of Phoenix Dance Theatre has been so successful that you have to admire his judgment.... more

Best little theatre in London

29.04.08
Mehmet Ergen has built Dalston's Arcola into a buzzing fringe venue that attracts big names. Now, he says, it's time to expand.... more

Old Vic's mother superior

05.09.07
No more extraordinary, sexually charged or surreal encounter than All About My Mother can ever have been played upon the Old Vic stage.... more

Symbolic eels just slip away

10.07.07
Nell Leyshon's Glass Eels is a mildly preposterous drama of unhappy family relations in rural Somerset, dressed up in lashings of flamboyant symbolism, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Finding room to Bloom

03.07.07
Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom tells Siobhan Murphy why he has left the blockbusters behind and headed for the West End stage.... more

The passion that stirs the cool Miss Pike

01.06.07
One-time Bond girl Rosamund Pike could have stuck with movies. But, she says, the stage is like a drug - especially with a play like Gaslight.... more

At last, a great Southbank show

30.05.07
Nick Curtis, who grew up going to the Southbank, celebrates the complex's shift from bleak concrete jungle to cultural quarter to be proud of. ... more

Zoe magically transformed by sex

30.03.07
Tennessee Williams wrote The Rose Tattoo when he was happy and, creatively speaking, happiness did not suit him. Nicholas de Jongh could see why the play has only been revived twice in 49 years.... more

Cul-de-sac of desire

12.03.07
A trio of Tennessee Williams's one-act plays, Lovely and Misfit serves a reminder of how the playwright wrote compulsively, fuelled by cocktails of alcohol and drugs.... more

I feel loved in London

16.02.07
As The Glass Menagerie opens to West End acclaim despite flopping on Broadway, Jessica Lange, now 57, confessses to first-night nerves and tells how she's still a rebel at heart.... more

Beautiful blues for a bleak childhood

14.02.07
Rupert Goold's dream-struck production of The Glass Menagerie proves it is one of the great, unhappy family-life plays in the modern American repertoire, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Courting controversy

06.02.07
The Royal Court should provoke, says its new director Dominic Cooke in his first interview, and he plans to do just that.... more

Williams' gay play to open in London

16.01.07
And Tell Sad Stories Of The Death Of Queens, a play Tennessee Williams refused to allow to be performed in his lifetime, is to open in March.... more

Commentary: Profits and bathtime songs

21.11.06
The straight play is going out of fashion in the West End because theatre owners like profits and bathtime songs, laments Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Critic's choice: Top five plays

07.11.06
The stars of Dirty Dancing are kicking up their heels, Faustus offers a smorgasbord of theatrical delights and Faust provides an evening you're unlikely to forget.... more

Rosamund plays it cool

19.10.06
Tennessee Williams's Summer And Smoke has been rediscovered on the London stage but actress Rosamund Pike is a little too serene for the role of a sexually desolate preacher's daughter.... more

Drama? It's just madness

21.09.06
There are not that many plays that Nicholas de Jongh would cross London to avoid but Terry Johnson's Piano/Forte is one of them.... more

Small but perfectly formed

07.08.06
Mark Bolland loves caviar so he was excited at the thought of visiting Volstead, a new lounge-bar near Piccadilly that serves the sturgeon's roe. But, as he discovered, small is beautiful here and it's not a place where people go to eat.... more

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