The dancer on fatherhood and the environment, patriarchy and myth " and the feminine nature of danceBorn in Wimbledon, where his father ran an Indian restaurant, Akram Khan, 44, is one of Br…
As Sweat opens in London, the only female dramatist to win two Pulitzers talks about America's left-behind, her intensive research " and why she's writing about Michael Jackson nextIt's the …
The queen of the whodunnit has never gone away, but with John Malkovich playing Poirot and two radical stage adaptations, it's no mystery why a new generation is falling for herThe interior …
He was an explosively powerful dancer whose grace and beauty revolutionised ballet. Has anyone ever leapt higher? As two Nureyev films appear, we remember the impoverished Russian kid who el…
Sadler's Wells, LondonA French hip-hop dance show is elegant and intellectually robust but it never really gets going"This is hip-hop dance theatre at its most curious," the programme announ…
The dance titan has returned to his home country, and classical dance, after years spent reshaping the art form in EuropeAt the age of 68, choreographer William Forsythe finds himself coming…
The actor-director's latest film, Murder on the Orient Express, boasts a stellar cast, including Branagh himself as Poirot. He discusses magnificent moustaches, moral brooding and the passio…
Royal Opera House, LondonEven when ballet gets silly, the Mariinsky's dancers are in a class of their ownThere are two processions in La Bayadère. The most famous is in the scene known as t…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe British dancer is made a company principal after starring as Prince Siegfried opposite the dazzling Viktoria TereshkinaAt the beginning of the lakeside scene in …
Boris Charmatz's blistering new work is, he says, like life " a blizzard of unique moves, never repeatedIt's the idea of dance, the thought behind movement that most fascinates the radi…
What you go to "42ND Street" for is the endless catalog of catchy songs from "Lullaby of Broadway" to "Shuffle off to Buffalo" and tap routines by RANDY SKINNER so vigorous they make your f…
Vincente Minnelli's daring MGM musical starred the 17-year-old Leslie Caron, had a staggeringly ambitious ballet sequence and became a surprise Oscar winner. Now it's become a Tony-winning s…
As they prepare to stage Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre, Ruth Wilson and director Ivo van Hove discuss a character who is at once tragic heroine and conniving monsterIn the summer of 1…
The story of Russia's flagship dance company, from the patronage of the tsars to surveillance by the KGB, mirrors the country's tempestuous recent historyThis massive survey of the 240-year …
Forsythe's 1987 ballet In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated was commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev and starred the young Sylvie Guillem " and it electrified the ballet world. So what made this work …
Festival theatre, EdinburghPite's Emergence works wonders with the hive mind, while Preljoçaj's MC 14/22 visits male bodies by way of the apostlesEvery ballet company in the world current…
Playhouse, EdinburghDance company Holy Body Tattoo and cult band Godspeed You! Black Emperor combine to exhausting but euphoric effect"Warning. This performance contains loud music", read th…
Royal Opera House, LondonDivine dancing, evocative staging and a sympathetic adaptation make perfect sense of Shakespeare's difficult playWatching the Bolshoi in Jean-Christophe Maillot's ve…
Royal Opera House, LondonStrutting matadors, fiery señoritas and outstanding soloists show the scandal-hit company at its virtuoso bestWhen I was first learning about ballet as a child I …
When crisis hit the Bolshoi, choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot assumed his new production would be postponed. In fact, he tells Sarah Crompton, his ballet has united a divided company""I…
This summer Sadler's Wells stages a season of Cuban dance. Sarah Crompton travels to the island to talk to returning hero Carlos Acosta about setting up a new company in a society on the ver…
Prince Edward theatre, LondonDisney's Broadway hit is an energetic, Lurex-lined extravaganzaDisney's Aladdin, arriving in the West End two years after its Broadway debut, is a strangely old-…
The author, director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne spent two years collaborating on The Cursed Child. On the eve of the theatrical event of the year, they discuss bringing the Pott…
Guantánamo and the 2011 UK riots are subjects on which director Nicolas Kent and novelist Gillian Slovo have collaborated. But what was it like to work on their most provocative challenge…
Whether it's Richard Bean's new snooker drama at the Sheffield Crucible or plays about cycling or football managers, sport is coming to a theatre near you. So why has it become such fertile …