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If you want to recharge with positivity and laughter, this show will definitely do the trick.

Benighted playwright Duncan Gates discusses the process of adapting J.B. Priestley's 1927 novel for the stage — and the lessons he's learned along the way.

Pros: An abundance of alliteration, insatiable innuendos, lots of laughs and hilarious heroines. Cons: Soft toy abuse and a sometimes frenetic pace. A pub theatre seemed a fitting venue for a raunchy Mills and Boon parody. A slightly sozzled Friday night audience would be the best group to respond to the sexually fraught narrative of Harriet and Molly: two characters who journey through The Throes of Modern Courtship and step out of reality into the pages of the Gothic novel ...

Pros: A perfect venue dripping with atmosphere and an eerie sense of expectation. Cons: Hysterically shrieking members of the audience breaking the tension. Plays in the West End are often short lived as they can rarely depend on customers returning to the same show.  The ultimate exception is of course Agatha Christie’s  Mousetrap, which has been running continuously in London since 1952.  A distant but creditable second is The Woman in Black, a mere stripling of only 25 years standing. ...

A unique take on a classic story that welcomes you with open arms with its expert humour.

Ahead of their production of Christmas Gothic at artsdepot, Dyad Productions producer and performer Rebecca Vaughan discusses giving a voice to the 'everyperson'.

A thoroughly enjoyable Christmas play suitable for all of the family whose performers wow with song, puppetry and more!

A relevant and thought-provoking 2016 kitchen sink drama from a theatre that can be relied upon to present the best in new writing.

Wickedly sharp and frightfully funny. Not to be missed!

Neil Johnson offers his first-person account of this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.