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Breakfast goes far too lightly at Tiffany's

30.09.09
Breakfast at Tiffany's is froth with a small shot of naughtiness in it — a cappuccino of a play, stylish perhaps but not nourishing.... 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

Mrs Affleck wasn't worth the risk

28.01.09
Mrs Affleck reminds us how risky it is to attempt the wholesale rewriting and updating of a classic text.... more

Quirky Thames tales

23.11.07
Although Some Kind of Bliss passes 75 minutes pleasantly enough, its inconsequentiality is hard to escape, says Fiona Mountford.... more

The Queen of the Old Vic

30.10.07
It'll be all right on the night, says Kate Pakenham, mastermind of the Old Vic's 24-hour play madness.... more

Critic's Choice: Top 5 plays

27.09.07
Cabaret, All About my Mother, The Emperor Jones and the last chance to see John Simms's terrific performance in Elling are among the theatrical highlights.... more

Across the sexual divide

06.09.07
Neil Bartlett has given Twelfth Night the serious cross-dressing treatment in his production at the Courtyard.... 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

Twisted straight talking

21.08.07
Playwright Samuel Adamson has taken on the characters of Barcelona's seedy underbelly to adapt Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother for the stage.... more

The actress taking on the mother of all roles

17.08.07
Lesley Manville is taking on the lead role in a stage adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother - alongside transsexual prostitutes, lesbian divas and a pregnant nun.... more

Desperate housewives in space

11.08.06
The Astronaut Wives' Club, by the talented young Al Smith, is like Desperate Housewives taken back 40 years and with all remaining men from Wisteria Lane blasted into space.... more

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