Infamous

It is 1798 and Admiral Nelson, victor of the Battle of the Nile is about to arrive to revictual his ships in Naples where Emma

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The Signalman

As evenings get longer and nights get darker, theatres tend to look to ghost stories to give audiences a fright. The onstage equivalent of a

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The Red Lion

So the New Wolsey Theatre’s autumn season opens with a multi-award-winning play by a writer whose credits include the films Closer and Notes on a

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In Other Words

So much of the dramatic and emotional impact of Matthew Seager’s In Other Words derives from its stark juxtapositions—mood and movement, structure and sound, light

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The Architect

Thirty years ago, a young man with aspirations to being an architect was on a street in Eltham, southeast London, waiting for a bus to

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Brassic FM

The restless political montage of Brassic FM angrily flits between the decades and the moments of injustice inflicted on its numerous characters. The urgent voice

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God of Carnage

A brilliant revival by director Nicholai La Barrie—with a pertinent slow revolve set and design by Lily Arnold—milks God of Carnage more for comedy than

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2:22: A Ghost Story

A hit on the West End for some time now, with productions on four continents and a wheelbarrow-load of awards, 2:22: A Ghost Story has

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ll Turco in Italia

Giachino Rossini, who boasted he could set a laundry list to music, wrote nearly forty operas. ll Turco in Italia, an early opera buffa, dates

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