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Sons Without Fathers

Another week, another extraordinary Chekhov revival. The plays may be well over a century old, but no living playwright has caught the temperature of our times half as well.

The Ghost Hunter

If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, the ghost hunters won’t even need calling. They’ll already be there, herding tourists into dank corners and peddling their hokum for a fiver a pop.

The Hothouse: Harold Pinter's hauntingly prescient nightmare

Harold Pinter didn't think much of his second play initially. "It was heavily satirical and quite useless," he wrote later. "I never began to like any of the characters, they really didn't live at all. So I discarded the play at once." The script went int

RSC and Google team up for online Midsummer Night's Dream

After their last social media experiment suffered a critical mauling, this new digital collaboration will allow audiences to watch and interact with play on Google+ over three days in June Forget putting a "girdle round about the earth in 40 minutes", th

The Seagull, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton/touring, review

Headlong Theatre's sharp, contemporary reading of The Seagull at Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, is extraordinary, says Matt Trueman.

Beckett's Not I returns - faster than ever

Irish actor Lisa Dwan will set a new record for the performance of Mouth, one of theatre's most challenging roles, for the 40th anniversary of the play's British premiere A disembodied mouth hovers eight feet above the stage in a tight spotlight. The lip

Billy Elliot audience puts Thatcher to one last vote

Theatregoers at the West End production elect to have song calling for the late prime minister's death performed as normal Margaret Thatcher's days of fighting elections may be long over, but in theatreland her legacy is still being put to the popular vo

Andrew Lloyd Webber to stage School of Rock

Theatre composer plans School of Rock musical based on the Jack Black film to follow Profumo affair 'chamber musical' What do Stephen Ward, the man who triggered the Profumo affair , and Dewey Finn, the rock-star-turned teacher played by Jack Black, hav