Born in China and the son of British missionaries, Frederick Knott wrote a thirty-minute television version of Dial M for Murder in 1949. When the production co ...

Rash actions in youth often lead to dire consequences in future. Which is one of the underlying themes of Teresa Deevy's 1937 emotionally-layered play Wife ...

Written by Lucy Prebble, The Effect was met with widespread critical acclaim when it premiered at The National Theatre in 2012. Having unfortunately missed th ...

Chess is renowned in some quarters for being a bit all over the place, both literally and figuratively. Early in Act One, the action is in Merano, Italy – bef ...

Producers Mark Goucher, Matthew Gale and Laurence Myers are delighted to announce the return of Brenda Edwards (Loose Women, ITV; Paddington The Musical, Savoy) ...

A mixture of captions (not, on the evening I attended, fully functional or always able to keep up with the cast’s delivery of ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's classic plays staged today. Its deliberate combination of fantasy, comedy and drama have e ...

The Sabai Pavilion has landed on Shepherd’s Bush Green. That can only mean one thing, The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in ...

A dining table set with four chairs stands centre stage, a candelabra taking pride of place as the audience awaits the ...

If the concept of following orders because one is paid to do the bidding of one’s masters, regardless of consequences, died a death at the Nuremberg Trials, here comes a play that examines the ...

Quirky and undefinable, all the faffing about with props and paraphernalia between the songs would have been beyond the tolerance of most regular patrons of liv ...