“A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” at Trafalgar Studios
Playwright Peter Nichols died aged 92 last month, just before the opening of this starry West End...
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Caryl Churchill’s “Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.” at the Royal Court
At the age of 81, Caryl Churchill, Britain’s greatest living playwright, is still going strong....
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Ruby Thomas’s “Either” at the Hampstead Theatre: Intriguing Questioning of Gender Identity
Once there were radically innovative playwrights; then came university courses about radically...
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Lesley Storm’s “Black Chiffon” at the Park Theatre: 1940s Psychological Thriller Revived
In British plays of the postwar period, before the liberated 1960s, there is always an unresolved...
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“Chiaroscuro” at The Bush Theatre
Identity politics have been around for decades. But it’s always good to revisit the subject....
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Maya Arad Yasur’s “Amsterdam” at the Orange Tree Theatre: Crimpian Account of the Past in the Present
The past can often hang like a nightmare on the present. And, in the case of Jewish identity, this...
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Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” at the Lyric Hammersmith: New Artistic Director’s Superb Debut
Rachel O’Riordan, the new artistic director of this Off-West End venue, has arrived with a program...
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Lucy Prebble’s “A Very Expensive Poison” at the Old Vic: Post-truth Games with Docu-drama
The Russian state murders dissidents not only in their homeland, but also in the UK. Recent cases...
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Robert Icke’s “The Doctor” At The Almeida Theatre
After six years, associate director Robert Icke bids farewell to the Almeida Theatre. In this...
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Appropriate” at the Donmar Warehouse: Deconstructing the American Family Play
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is one of America’s finest. In London, we are now catching up...
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“Go Bang Your Tambourine” at The Finborough Theatre
Theatre legends die hard. Playwright Philip King, who passed away in 1979, was once hailed as the...
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Taz Skylar and Ross Berkeley Simpson’s “Warheads” at the Park Theatre: War-scarred Youth
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is sometimes referred to as a silent illness. Typically, it...
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“The Hunt” at The Almeida Theatre
For a while, child abuse was banished from our stages. After all, there is a limit, surely, to how...
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“Seven Methods Of Killing Kylie Jenner” At The Royal Court Theatre
Few theatres have done as much to promote new young talent as the Royal Court; few theatres have...
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“Rust”at The Bush Theatre
The best kind of two-hander is the play about couples. And the most dramatic way of saying...
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“Europe” at The Donmar Warehouse
In the middle of the current decade, there was a mild vogue for reviving a handful of the great...
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Jack Thorne’s “The End of History” at the Royal Court: State of the Left
Last month, Andrzej Lukowski, London Time Out’s theater editor, wrote a well-argued piece in The...
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“Bitter Wheat” at Garrick Theatre
John Malkovich is back in town — and he’s starring in the most controversial play of the year....
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“Citysong” (The Abbey Theatre, Dublin) at Soho Theatre
Irish playwright Dylan Coburn Gray’s new play won the Verity Bargate Award in 2017, and his reward...
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Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” at the Lyric Hammersmith: Joyously Farcical
Once upon a time, farce was one of the most popular of genres in postwar British theatre. Those...
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