1,044 stories by "Chris Wiegand"
From the story behind Sondheim's Broadway flop to political theatre during South Africa's apartheid, these films capture the power of plays
The stage on screen: our guide to films about thea…
Curve, LeicesterPowerhouse renditions of songs from Joseph, Phantom, Superstar and more " plus memories from the man himself " dazzle in an inventive show
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the first to…
Singer to star in 'bloody scary' 2:22 " a Ghost Story, written by Danny Robins
Lily Allen is to make her West End theatre debut in a "bloody scary" supernatural thriller opening in London th…
Actor will perform two tales with a musical theme featuring characters confronting their mortality with defiance
A pair of Julian Barnes stories about old age are to be performed by Ian McDi…
The comedian will play the Prince of Wales in The Windsors: Endgame, due to play for 10 weeks in London this summer
A new stage version of the TV hit The Windsors will star Harry Enfield bot…
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonBased on Christie Watson's incisive memoir, this dance-theatre show creates choreography from daily life on the wards
In The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story…
CentrE17, LondonKilter's touring production invites audiences of one or two to watch a quartet of short monologues performed inside a hut
Last June, with England's venues closed due to the …
Criterion, LondonIt irons out the eccentricities in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film but this show has a timely message and delights in small pleasures
Twenty years ago, Jean-Pierre Jeunet introduc…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonGoody-bag props, party-hatted fairies and a donkey-shaped piñata sweeten the bard's dark comedy in a revival of Sean Holmes's vibrant 2019 production
A donkey-s…
Steve Coogan's blazered broadcaster promises to bring a touch of TV evangelism and hatred of speed bumps on tour next year in venues across post-Brexit UK
Alan Partridge is to embark on a UK…
A performance of Walden at the Harold Pinter theatre in London was cancelled on Tuesday but all cast and crew 'remain negative for Covid' after the alert
The West End play Walden, starring G…
Our series on films about theatre ends with Kermit staging a musical spectacular with the help of some famous friends
The stage on screen: read the full series
Two classic New York musicals …
Soho theatre, London, and onlineAn impressive cast " including Greg Germann via video link " deliver a revival of Lucinda Coxon's jittery examination of intimacy and exploitation
Lucinda Cox…
The actor's first West End role in 10 years will be directed by Rebecca Frecknall in a bespoke recreated Kit Kat Club
Eddie Redmayne will return to London theatre, for his first West End rol…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonWendi Peters seizes the role of a suburbanite who is inspired by the lunar broadcast to embark on a spontaneous trip
Two men walked on the moon in the summer of 19…
Four-time Oscar nominee reunited with James McArdle in the Almeida theatre's staging of the Shakespeare tragedy
The four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan is to make her UK stage debut as Lad…
Twenty-five years before the hard-bitten Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard, Swanson played a small-town waitress with a dream to act
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Gloria Swanso…
AudibleEmma Thompson plays the poet and Sinead Matthews is the breathy movie star in Simon Berry's compelling audio play
Truman Capote called Sunset Tower, an art deco triumph on Hollywood's…
Flexibility and childcare are 'part of the conversation' for the team behind Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's psychological drama about motherhood
A new theatre production about motherhood and mental …
In the town where the playwright was imprisoned, a new venue for the Reading Rep company is to run a 'radical' version of The Picture of Dorian Gray
A new theatre is to open in Reading this …
The artistic director looks back at a year of crisis for the arts and ahead to a celebratory, livestreamed summer season
When Shakespeare's Globe announced its reopening plans for spring, th…
Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
At the start of Death o…
Freelance performers 'forgotten' during the pandemic says top choreographer as he launches Cygnet School training programme to diversify industry
Sir Matthew Bourne, one of Britain's most su…
Part of the New German Cinema boom, Helma Sanders-Brahms' 1975 film about two actors asks if theatre still has revolutionary potential
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Grischa H…
Actors roam Madrid, springing provocative performances on passersby, in Achero Mañas's vibrant faux-documentary
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Can theatre change the world?…
