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Looking for inspiration? Check out our picks of the best London shows in the West End and beyond
From the rogue ringing mobile to the scrunch of gobbled food, some failures of audience etiquette do not go unpunished
Irish actor paused ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy as spectator decided to open computer to answer emails in theatre faux pas
From Sarah Jessica Parker’s West End debut to Succession's Sarah Snook playing 26 characters in an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Conversations with Friends actress is a revelation – but the Almeida's staging doesn't make the case for reviving this now-clichéd play
Sally Rooney drama Conversations with Friends set Oliver on the road to fame. Next stop? The primal tragedy of Portia Coughlan
The Golden Globe winner reports that she’s been ‘very childlike’ and ‘punched pillows and kicked bushes’
Jonny Lee Miller is on fine form in this study of art and censorship, but the play collapses under the weight of its own self-importance
How the Trainspotting star put his testosterone-fuelled party days behind him to land his dream role: real-life fireman
Dark, inventive, mercifully un-modish and yet beautifully fresh, Rebecca Frecknall's new production of Shakespeare's tragedy is unmissable
His Stovepipe was praised as ‘the most exciting theatrical thriller in town’, but not long afterwards he gave up writing plays to direct
This adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's 2001 novel, set against the background of the civil rights movement, has charm and warmth to spare
Rupert Goold's Almeida production promises temptation and terror, but it is ultimately hard to care about
It’s no surprise that the run at the Almeida Theatre, starring 'hot property' Paul Mescal and rising star Patsy Ferran, has already sold out
The playwright famed for A Streetcar Named Desire is often painted as a purveyor of Southern heat – but really he’s a social commentator
Fresh creations are up against revivals, movie adaptations and jukebox shows, explain industry big-hitters
This new play about a middle-class British Nigerian family has a muddled plot and message, but it's still well worth catching
The West End, and indeed Broadway, should surely ready themselves for a benign Russian invasion as Peter Morgan's drama hits the Almeida
Beth Steel’s new decades-spanning epic chronicles how the party poisoned its relationship with the working class
'Black Out' performances of racially-charged shows for all-black audiences can be empowering and unifying. But does it risk segregation?
Claes Bang stars in American provocateur Jeremy O Harris's frustratingly self-conscious play about a racially problematic relationship
The heartening solidarity of this new play cycle at the Almeida feels incredibly poignant in the light of the conflict in Ukraine
Leading venues are increasingly using non-professional actors in the name of inclusivity. Not everyone is convinced