Lennox Robinson’s theatrical satire is comically enhanced in the Abbey’s slapstick-accentuated Christmas production

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’

The West End hit at the Abbey hovers somewhere between fairy tale and horror story

This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them

Everybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious play

Nina Raine should know. Her father, a critic, once told her: `Your business is not to be worrying about people’s feelings. Because otherwise you will never write'

Amy Huberman and the rest of the cast seem lost in the weird comedy and supposed drama of this show

Turgenev’s play gets a stately pace as Brian Friel smuggles the radical energy of passion into a distinctly Irish word play

‘Strumpet City’ actor described as a woman with great love for words and family

Written fitfully during the first World War and finally presented to an utterly changed world, Shaw’s experimental play remains tangled and complex. Can the Abbey make sense of it?

A daringly modern telling of Shakespeare’s comedy of desire, disguise and deception makes the play seem more true to itself