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The Independent

The Diary: Jolly jihadi japes; Russell Brand; Rachel Getting Married; C4's new little chef

Observations: Amid the credit crunch comes a Hogarth for the 21st century

Financial Times

The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, Wilton’s Music Hall, London
This play is neither dramatically nor intellectually interesting, writes Ian Shuttleworth

The Times UK

Presumption, Southwark Playhouse, London
The piece points up some unpalatable aspects of coupledom, but at times familiarity means that the play lacks freshness

The Guardian

Christmas picks 2008: Theatre and panto
Our critics pick the season's most beautiful and beastly shows, including Simply Cinderella, Mother Goose and Loot

Christmas 2008: Panto and Theatre
The best nights out at the theatre, from the soap star-studded festive favourites to more high-brow performances

Clive Barnes
Obituary: Englishman who became the US's most revered theatre critic

Zero, Tristan Bates, London
The latest from Theatre Absolute is an absolute mess, but a gripping mess

TheStage UK - Blogs

Mark Shenton: Phoney philanthropy and other headline(r)s….
As if the credit crunch isn’t going to affect the ever-burgeoning development departments of theatres up and down the land, who have been learning from the American way of supplementing their grant incomes by corporate and private donations but...

Daily Telegraph

Surprise Yourself: Nuclear: art & radioactivity
Dominic Cavendish recommends an nightmarish excursion to BANG.

Imagine This: melodrama shows off a dubious imagination
Charles Spencer reviews Holocaust musical Imagine This at the New London Theatre.

Whatsonstage.com

Sadie Frost Is Touched by One-Woman Madonna in Feb
As previously tipped, Sadie Frost (pictured) will make her West End debut in a new comedy in the new year. Four months before her ex-husband Jude Law takes to the stage in Michael Grandage’s Donmar Wes...

Lion King Back in Royal Favour, Disney Celebrates
Disney’s The Lion King will next month become the first West End musical to give an encore performance at the annual Royal Variety Performance. The current cast, led by Shaun Escoffery as Mufasa, will perform “The Circle of Life” live in fr...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

One to Watch … Julian Armistead
After a Classics degree, Julian Armitstead trained as an actor at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. In his late twenties he became a teacher of English and Drama, working in schools, adult education, and with prisoners. His first professional stage production was The Name of the Son, directed ...

Whatsonstage.com - Blogs

Michael Coveney: London lads: Clive Barnes, Anthony Newley…and Danny
Two lively London lads are in the news this week: Clive Barnes, the dance and drama critic, who died in New York on Wednesday; and Anthony Newley whose songs and shows are celebrated in a new musical, The Fool Who Dared to Dream, in a Highgate pub.