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With vigorous renditions of the songs of Ian Dury, an adept cast and Gaelle Mellis’ busy, bright set design, there are many reasons to be cheerful about this new musical if you’re a Blockheads fan […]

The National Theatre is set to change the name of the smallest of its three theatres from the Cottesloe to the Dorfman following a £10 million personal donation by Lloyd Dorfman. The currency exchange millionare, […]

In the wake of swingeing arts cuts, does it qualify as consorting with the enemy? Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have taken the time to recommend their favourite children's books […]

Ena Lamont Stewart’s 1947 play Men Should Weep has received a rare revival at the National Theatre, where it opened in the Lyttelton Theatre this week (26 October 2010, previews from 18 October). In the […]

The all-star revival of JB Priestly’s When We Are Married opened at the Garrick Theatre last night (28 October 2010, previews from 19 October) where it is booking for a limited season until 26 February […]

I have mixed feelings about the re-naming of the Cottesloe Theatre in the National as the Dorfman. This will happen once the extensive refurbishments are complete, in honour of Lloyd Dorfman, chairman of Travelex, who […]

Forty years ago, producers Duncan Weldon and Paul Elliot launched their partnership with this imperishable J B Priestley play, and they’re back in harness for Christopher Luscombe’s cheerful, well paced, if rather strenuous, revival. Act… […]

As previously tipped, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group (RUG) will sell four of its seven remaining West End theatres to former BBC and ITV chairman Michael Grade. RUG announced today that, after an “unsolicited […]

On the same day that it learned that it – along with all other organisations regularly funded by the Arts Council – would receive a 6.9% cut to its subsidy (of £2.3 million in 2010/11) […]

The full-text Hamlet at the National has prompted a splendid Radio 4 programmme by Michael Sheen who is himself slated to play the princely Dane at the Young Vic next autumn, directed by Ian Rickson. […]