Ben Jonson's ‘The Alchemist' carries the unmistakable whiff of pretension...

When Arthur Miller's The Crucible first appeared in 1953, a number of commentators saw it primarily as a parable of the McCarthy era...

It's intriguing to see what projects producers can stir up to sell tickets. In the case of the current show at the Palladium...

There's usually a play by Michael Frayn running in the West End, often popular with audiences, even though recent ones proved more thought-provoking...

One of the biggest egos in all of Shakespeare, the titular hero of Coriolanus isn't also one of the Bard's brightest buttons

Odd, challenging, unique. That is the least you can say of this...

For someone who is the least actressy of performers, Judi Dench seems to play more than her fair share of actresses...

All over the West End, in Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams, as well as in David Harrower’s Blackbird...

Musicals don’t die, they live on not only in the memory of those who saw them but in the record and CD collections...

For the actor Christian Slater, playing the lead...