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The case for replacing nurses with robots

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Tending is a work of activism on behalf of the NHS. The script brings together the testimony of 70 nurses…

Those behind this fabulous new comedy are destined for big things

19 April 2025 9:00 am

Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco is a period piece from 1959. It opens with the invasion of a French village by…

Tedious and threadbare: Unicorn, at the Garrick Theatre, reviewed

22 February 2025 9:00 am

Unicorn, Mike Bartlett’s new play, involves some characters in chairs discussing a sexual threesome. That’s the entire show. Polly (Nicola…

Wonderful comedy of manners: Kiln Theatre’s The Purists reviewed

30 November 2024 9:00 am

A slice of the ghetto arrives at the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn. The Purists is set on the stoop of…

Eddie Izzard’s one-man Hamlet deserves top marks

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Every Hamlet is a failure. It always feels that way because playgoers tend to compare what they’re seeing with a…

An exquisitely funny sitcom that should be on the BBC

4 May 2024 9:00 am

Agathe by Angela J. Davis follows the early phases of the Rwanda genocide 30 years ago. The subject, Agathe Uwilingiyimana,…

A must-see for Westminster obsessives: Riverside Studios' Bloody Difficult Women reviewed

19 March 2022 9:00 am

Bloody Difficult Women is a documentary drama by the popular journalist Tim Walker, which looks at the similarities between Gina…

Is this the worst production of all time? Royal Court's The Glow reviewed

5 February 2022 9:00 am

It’s getting silly now. London’s subsidised theatres aren’t just competing to put on the worst play of the year but…