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Restored as a luxury hotel, the Café Royal looks to regain its place at the centre of London’s social scene
An adventurous visiting Russian production of Chekhov’s play trumps its star-studded British counterpart
Do plays simplify scientific propositions? Or can the stage convey tricky concepts better than the page?
As five stagings of ‘Uncle Vanya’ hit UK theatres in a few months, why does its existential gloom speak to us so profoundly?
A season of horror opens on London’s stages
Alan Ayckbourn’s revived comedy about an am-dram production of ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ has plenty of theatrical in-jokes
Doing your assignment very well was a way of sending out love letters to the world
Though the performers display immense musical skills, this jukebox show has few merits as a piece of theatre
Winston Fletcher had extraordinary energy
Tamsin Greig is superb in the Royal Court comedy that has made a smooth transition to the West End
‘Name and shame’ tactics malign traders as evil market participants
Visitors who normally flock to the capital stay away
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