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Byline: Tim Walker THE DUCK HOUSE ** Vaudeville Theatre, March 29 | 0844 412 4663; the-duck-house.co.uk Toy rubber ducks hung from the ceiling at the retirement party we had at [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Once a CATHOLIC ***** Tricycle, to Jan 18 tricycle.co.uk; 020 7328 10 Theatre-goers are becoming every bit as promiscuous as seasoned restaurant patrons. Just as the 'foodies' [...]

Byline: Tim Walker As the maid Edna Braithwaite in Downton Abbey, Myanna Buring seduced the 'upstairs' Tom Branson. In real life, the actress has found it more of a challenge [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE COMMITMENTS **| Palace Theatre, to Jan 5 | thecommitmentslondon.com; 0844 874 0790 TORY BOYZ| ***** Ambassadors Theatre, to Nov 29 nyt.org.uk; 0844 811 2334 The playwright [...]

Byline: Tim Walker I had a feeling, when I made my stage debut in Top Hat last month, that I would bring the house down. Mercifully, it didn't happen while [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Although it had to be put back by one week because of the indisposition of the actor Mark Bazeley, Scenes From a Marriage finally opened this week [...]

Byline: Tim Walker A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM'| ***** | Noel Coward Theatre, to Nov 16 amidsummernightsdream.co.uk 0844 871 7627 BARKING IN ESSEX | ** | Wyndham's Theatre, to Jan 4 [...]

Byline: Tim Walker It was out there somewhere, beyond the dazzling lights, that great, big, living, breathing, amorphous life form that I had somehow not to displease. My stage debut [...]

Byline: Tim Walker HYSTERIA Hampstead, to Oct 12 020 7722 9301; hampsteadtheatre.com Comedy belongs to the divine space between reality and our peception of it, ruminates Terry Johnson, the director [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE PRIDE| ***** Trafalgar Studios, to Nov 9 atgtickets.com; 0844 871 7627 There has been such a tumultuous and almost intimidating buzz about Jamie Lloyd's revival of [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Cold snaps don't worry West End producers, but heatwaves they dread. Inadequate or non-existent air-conditioning and too much human flesh crammed into too little space keeps the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE AMERICAN PLAN **** | St James Theatre, to Aug 10 | stjamestheatre.co.uk 0844 264 21 One of the most memorable landings I ever made was at [...]

Byline: Tim Walker One directed the British-led division in Basra during our engagement in Iraq in 2007 and served with the Army in the Falklands, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and Bosnia, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG ***** Harold Pinter Theatre, to Jul 27 atgtickets.com 0844 871 76 Out in force in their best bibs and tuckers for the Olivier [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Stand by for Mandrake - the play. Scott Le Crass, the director, is staging the first London revivial of Niccolò Machiavelli's classic - which inspired the name [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE BOOK OF MORMON ***** Prince ofWales, to Aug 24; bookofmormonlondon. com0844 871 7627 THE WINSLOW BOY *** Old Vic, toMay 25 oldvictheatre.com; 0844 871 7628 There [...]

Byline: Tim Walker With his first album in 20 years at Number One, and an exhibition of his costumes a hit at the Victoria & Albert Museum, David Bowie is [...]

Byline: Tim Walker TOP STORY ** Old Vic Tunnels, to Feb 2; 0844 871 7628 oldvictunnels.com For everything there is a season, and, for professional followers of the theatre, this [...]

Byline: Tim Walker IN THE REPUBLIC OF HAPPINESS * Royal Court, to Jan 19; 020 7565 5000 royalcourttheatre.com Time has to be made for great theatre - even frantically busy [...]

Byline: Tim Walker WEST END GIRL Nancy Dell'Olio, above, who attended the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, has surprised her exlover, Sir Trevor Nunn, by writing her own [...]

Byline: Tim Walker At a reading from the Josephine Hart poetry collection Life Saving, the great-nephew of Robert Browning shared the National Theatre stage with the actors Fiona Shaw and [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE GUINEA PIG CLUB ***** York, to Sat 01904 623568yorktheatreroyal.co.uk LOSERVILLE Garrick, to Mar 2 0845 505 8500 londontheatredirect.com Rather in the way that Mohammed looked upon [...]

Byline: Tim Walker LETITBE| * Prince of Wales, to Jan 19; 0844 482 5115 letitbelondon.com It is nothing short of a miracle that this column manages to appear every week. [...]

Byline: Tim Walker PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! ***** Donmar Warehouse to Sep 22; 0844 8717 624 donmarwarehouse.com MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING *** The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford to Sep 15; 08448001110 [...]

Byline: Tim Walker TIMON OF ATHENS *** National Theatre, to Oct 31 nationaltheatre.org.uk 020 7452 3000 The National Theatre has an unenviable job in trying, on the one hand, to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker DANDY DICK ***** Theatre Royal Brighton Tours to Sep 1 0844 871 7650 atgtickets.com For decades a monolithic, if not moribund, place - with its wall-to-wall musicals, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE LAST OF THE HAUSSMANS ***** National, to Oct 10; 020 7452 3000; nationaltheatre.org.uk One looks back with nostalgia to the days when I could fulminate against [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SOUTHDOWNS * THE BROWNING VERSION ***** Harold Pinter Theatre, to Jul 21 londontheatredirect.com; 0845 505 8500 Harold Pinter would doubtless have approved of the Terence Rattigan/David Hare [...]

Byline: Tim Walker BABY STEPS Don't expect Sienna Miller to be taking much maternity leave after she gives birth to her child by Tom Sturridge later this year. The actress [...]

Byline: Tim Walker FAREWELLTOTHE THEATRE *** Hampstead, to Apr 7 020 7722 9301 hampsteadtheatre.com After the Young Vic got everybody talking with its casting of Michael Sheen in the title [...]

Byline: Tim Walker HAY FEVER ***** Noël Coward Theatre, to June 2; hayfeverlondon.com 0844 482 5140 THE LADY FROM THE SEA *** Rose, Kingston, to March 17; rosetheatrekingston.org; 08444 821556 [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THEART OF CONCEALMENT ***** Jermyn Street Theatre, to Jan 28 jermynstreettheatre.co.uk; 020 7287 2875 'You could say that I owed it all to my mother,' opines Sir [...]

Byline: Tim Walker SWALLOWS & AMAZONS ** Vaudeville, London WC2; to Sat, then touring to May 19; swallowsamazons.co.uk; 0844 482 9675 It may be a cliché beloved of theatre critics, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker MATILDA THE MUSICAL **** Cambridge Theatre, London WC2; to Feb 12 0844 800 1110; matildathemusical.com ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS *** Adelphi, to Feb 25 onemantwoguvnors.com 020 7452 [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Even before the critics had reviewed John Hodge's new play Collaborators at the National Theatre, tickets for the entire run had virtually sold out. Sir Nicholas Hytner, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker BROKEN GLASS ***** Vaudeville Theatre, to Dec 10; london theatredirect.com; 0845 505 8500 I recall Antony Sher telling me how, when he was presented to the Queen [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Mandrake has been amused to see Michael Grandage posing in a suit and tie in an all but inescapable advertisement for Dunhill. When I treated the amiable [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Anne Boleyn ***** Shakespeare's Globe, London SE1 (020 7401 9919) to Aug 21 Trudging into a theatre foyer, back when the capital had been all but buried [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Butley *** Duchess Theatre, London WC2 (020 7907 7071) to Aug 27 There was a time in my life - when I had happily had little exposure [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Pygmalion ***** Garrick Theatre, London WC2 (020 7907 7071) to Sep 3 Barely a week before the opening of Pygmalion, Simon Ward became too ill to play [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER The Cherry Orchard ***** National theatre: olivier, London SE1 (020 7452 3000) to JUly 28 Economic downturns always seem to be good for at least two of [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Little Eyolf **** Jermyn Street Theatre, London SW1 (020 7287 2875) to May 28 It was here that you first read of Thrill Me at the tiny [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Penelope * Hampstead Theatre, to Mar 5 One doesn't object to weirdly alternative plays in principle because, goodness knows, life can sometimes be pretty weirdly alternative itself. [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER The Children's Hour * Comedy Theatre, London SW1 (020 7907 7071) to Apr 30 Vernon God Little *** Young Vic, London SE1 (020 7922 2922) to Mar [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Twelfth Night *** National Theatre: Cottesloe, London SE1 (020 7452 3000) to Mar 2 The Knowledge ** Bush Theatre, London W12 (020 8743 5050) to Feb 19 [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Julius Caesar *** Roundhouse, London NW1 (0844 482 8008) to Feb 5 Love Never Dies **** Adelphi Theatre, London WC2 (020 7907 7071) to May 28 Once [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER At its worst, theatre makes you feel as if you're sitting in a room full of people who have nothing better to do with their time. At [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER The Rivals ** Haymarket Theatre Royal, London SW1 (020 7907 7071) to Feb 26 Given the scorched earth policy that Whitehall now has with honouring wrinkly luvvies, [...]

Byline: TIM WALKER Fela! * National Theatre - Olivier, London SE1 (020 7452 3000) to Jan 6 I was not surprised that Sir Nicholas Hytner, when he addressed the press [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Known for his booming voice, Brian Blessed has been forced to withdraw from the stage after suffering from a potentially serious lung condition. The 74-year-old actor and [...]