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Deborah Warner's new production dives head first into the Lars Von Trier pool of paranoia

With the swashbuckling zeal of a rowdy tavern brawl and all the brash bravado you can shake a bulging cod piece at, the Sean Holmes helmed The Comedy of Errors crashes onto the Globe stage to start the summer season with a bang.

BroadwayWorld caught up with Emily Fairn, the breakout star of BBC's The Responder as she makes her theatrical debut, along with Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges. We spoke about getting a leg-up in the industry, perfecting a Wyoming accent and returning to the stage after her television work.

An overstuffed and underbaked look at food poverty

The production straddles the line between farce and poignance without deciding which it prefers.

A wildly thrilling clash of theatrical titans becomes a love letter to the art form

Katie Mitchell's climate change wake-up call is a cold, hard slap in the face

Close your eyes. Imagine a rock opera based on the life of prime minister Tony Blair and his ten years at number 10. Throw in some generic rock ballads and there you go. You have TONY! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera), as predictable as it is self-aware as it is schmaltzy.

A confident production of a conceptually flawed opera.

For an eighty-year-old play about the perils of capitalism and human-nature born kicking and screaming amongst the political turmoil of Weimar Germany, it neither looks nor feels like it has aged a day.

What did our critic think of NO I.D. at Royal Court?

Here it is, opera's answer to A Little Life: Kaija Saariaho's Innocence follows the aftermath of a school shooting and the emotional destruction felt by those connect to the event. An elegant but devastating meditation on the nature of violence and collective guilt.

Katie Mitchell breathes dangerous life into Rebecca Watson's disarmingly experimental novel

A gem of 17th century Spanish theatre gets the David Lynch treatment in Cheek By Jowl's latest show

BroadwayWorld caught up with Joe chatting about everything from Olivier nominations to what the future holds for this up and coming writer. The Olivier-nominated writer talks about the transfer from his play to Hampstead Theatre's main space.

An arduous deep dive into the moral murkiness of alcoholism and grief

Cordelia Lynn’s atmospheric new play treads familiar waters

A jagged knife of a play that could cut deeper. Chronicling Russia's first annexation of Crimea, Pussycat in Memory of Darkness is wielded like a jagged blade goring its victim in a furious trance of savagery. Its prophetic vision of violence as relentless as it is terrifying to watch.

For all the gleeful whimsey and creative flare, this stage adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s critically acclaimed eco-thriller lacks bite

Annilese Miskimmon directs an arresting new production of Korngold's cult operatic meditation on melancholy