Smoke

Linbury Prize-winning Sami Fendall’s black sandpit set is an excellent locale for this transposition of Strindberg’s misogynistic Miss Julie to a 2012 New York City, BDSM party.

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The Tempest

Prospero’s isle is famously full of noises. In Elizabeth Freestone’s production for our times, it is also full of detritus, as if all the jetsam

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The Abbott Touch

George Abbott was remarkable in many ways. He was an uncommon kind of theatrical quadruple threat, succeeding on Broadway as actor, director, writer, producer. This

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The Snow Queen

The ever-popular Scottish Ballet, based in Glasgow, made a dazzling return to Newcastle Theatre Royal last night with The Snow Queen, a family friendly extravaganza, which

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The Ballerina

The tense thriller The Ballerina performed in one of the small, bleak, atmospheric tunnels below Waterloo Station takes us to the world of international intrigue.

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The Mousetrap

It was the first play I ever saw in the theatre, probably my parents’ first too. Harold Macmillan had not long been Prime Minister, Educating

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Sound of the Underground

Travis Alabanza’s latest show, co-created with its director Debbie Hannan, has nothing to do with the District Line running next-door and or really with Girls

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