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Josef Herman: Warsaw, Brussels, Glasgow, London, 1938-1944

Josef Herman's early, cathartic work should not be missed

Josef Herman: Warsaw, Brussels, Glasgow, London, 1938-1944

Josef Herman's early, cathartic work should not be missed

Red Army Faction Blues

Red Army Faction Blues persuasively blends fact and fiction in its account of Germany's turbulent times from the '60s to the '80s, writes Paul Simon

On the stage

Crossing Points

Friday 10 February 2012

It's never a good sign when the ideas behind a performance are more memorable than the performance itself.

She Stoops To Conquer

Wednesday 08 February 2012

Director Jamie Lloyd revamps Oliver Goldsmith's 18th-century classic in a production which heightens the sharp wit, brazen punning and farcical asides of the original.

The House Of Bernarda Alba

Monday 06 February 2012

Federico Garcia Lorca's last play was written shortly before his execution by Franco's forces in 1936.

Resolution!

Sunday 05 February 2012

2012 is the 23rd year of the remarkable and richly rewarding Resolution! season.

The Taming Of The Shrew

Monday 30 January 2012

Presumably Shakespeare would not have regarded the treatment of women as any more acceptable than his fellow Elizabethans.

New Variety's New Act Of The Year Final

Monday 30 January 2012

This year's New Act of the Year final was held in the bizarre Olympic leisure farm which has taken over east London's Stratford to accommodate the four weeks of industrial-level grotesquery which is drawing ever nearer.

Travelling Light

Friday 27 January 2012

Nicholas Wright's gently amusing new play is an imaginative representation of rural life in an eastern European Jewish shtetl at the end of the 19th century.

Two

Friday 27 January 2012

As the old saying goes there's nowt so queer as folk and, in Jim Cartwright's quirky play set in a northern pub, a whole host of oddballs drop in for a drink.

Big Society!

Wednesday 25 January 2012

In Edwardian times Britain was run by ex-public schoolboys while the jobless and poor suffered at the hands of political warmongers and corruption.

Better Living Through Comedy

Wednesday 18 January 2012

The Fat Kitten impro group has gone through uncountable line-ups, a sweet dadaism which reflects the ephemeral nature of their partiular comic beast and has served their structured lack of structure laudably in the past.