Pantomime is constantly evolving. It's steeped in tradition and yet it's ripe for reinvention. While the major producers invest in big effects
When musical theatre collaborators George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Elliot Davis' updated gay version of the Cinderella story premiered in 2012, its
Sam Shepard's Ages of the Moon was written in 2009, the same year he penned his Pulitzer-winning Buried Child. There are themes
The Spirit Young Performers Company has announced the winners of The Stage Scholarship 2019. Musical theatre company scholarships have been awarded to
Whether or not it's a trick of the air-con or simply a fluke, there's a definite chill in the tiny theatre housed
One of the more unlikely liaisons to develop following the First World War was the one between Lord Baden-Powell and Joachim von
Jonathan Larson died in 1996 just before the opening of his first major Broadway musical, Rent. Before this he was a struggling
John Godber is a consummate communicator. His fusion of observational comedy with physical theatre has proved immensely popular since Bouncers premiered in
The Stage Scholarship 2019 in conjunction with London-based Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company has been won by Hannah Roy-Davies and Morgan Summers.
US writer Eleanor Burgess' play The Niceties is a dense, talky two-hander that sets out to explore some meaty questions about race
The twins Aphrodite and Ilithyia are completely unaware of how powerful they are. So powerful in fact that the mighty Zeus himself
It seems ludicrous to imagine that a fledgling stand-up comic, an academic, a music journalist and an admin assistant might be able
Author Frank McCourt faced criticism about the accuracy of Angela's Ashes, even from his own family. He later redefined the work as
Originally played against the backdrop of the Suez Crisis in 1956, John Osborne's The Entertainer used the bickering family of fading showman
The fictional plot: ex-pat Kate (Steph Parry) worked in the costume department of the Mamma Mia! movie when it was filming on
Tony Hawks is probably best known as a successful radio comedian and author of quirky novels such as Round Ireland With a
The really sad thing about Penelope Skinner's tragicomic Eigengrau is that, in the nine years since it opened at London's Bush Theatre,
Ronnie Larsen's previous plays include Making Porn and Sleeping With Straight Men. Possessing a less provocative title, Now and Then is an
Alan Parker's seminal 1980s movie Fame introduced us to the highs and lows of triple-threat training at New York's High School for
Next year, Razzamataz Theatre Schools will be celebrating its 20th anniversary providing classes in dance, drama and singing to thousands of keen
When Harvey Fierstein conceived his original Torch Song Trilogy in the late 1970s the gay liberation movement was still very much in
The audition process can be one of the most raw and uncompromising components of an actor's life, laced with stiff competition and
There has been a change to the advertised lecture today and the professor seems more than usually enthusiastic to explain why. He
For Ed Coleman's new play, which originally saw the light at this year's Vaults Festival, the author questions how much we will
Austin wakes up on a beach and reimagines himself as Black Ulysses, thirsty for adventure but ever fearful of the problems that