Mark Rylance's star turn as Rooster in Jez Butterworth's play owes much to the time he spent with the hard-drinking Wiltshire wild man who inspired the playwrightWhen Mark Rylance was toast…
Experts ask if the Bard is Britain's only exportable brand as leading organisations recruit playwright for GamesThis country may be the birthplace of Chaucer, Milton, Austen, the Brontë s…
Nottingham's Neat 11 festival opens on 26 MayIt might not seem the right time to launch an international arts festival, but Nottingham is to take this fearless step. Later this spring the ci…
Visiting the UK in tribute to her Labour leader grandfather, the Murder, She Wrote star reveals hope of capping her Hollywood career by appearing on the West End stage her mother once perfor…
Funding cuts threaten the seaside home of work by the celebrated British playwrightThreats to the future of a cherished theatre in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough, a home of Alan A…
Dame Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh and Jeremy Irons among actors voicing dismay at potential impact of cutsA cast of stars from the first rank of British acting talent has sounded the alarm …
Actor goes from hard-drinking cop in The Wire to hard-drinking lecturer in Simon Gray's classic playDominic West, the star of The Wire and the BBC's The Devil's Whore, is to take on one of t…
TV favourite Ruby Bentall takes stage role with director who cast her mother 30 years ago in the classic comedy Abigail's PartyThe distinctive plays and films of Mike Leigh have introduced m…
The new South Bank Sky Arts awards go into orbit with a souped-up theme tune and Anish Kapoor-designed statuettesA lunch with Lord Bragg and others to flag up the new Sky Arts collaboration …
Obituaries of the character actor Peter Postlethwaite reveal the role played by the Everyman Theatre in his successTalent can look like a fluke. An actor with eyes that draw you in, a voice …
Director bows out with New Year's Eve performance of The Magic Flute at the Bouffes du NordFor lovers of Parisian theatre, the first days of 2011 have a slightly melancholy edge. On New Year…
The likes of Helen Mirren, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie show skills rather than surgery are the way to successBotox and surgical artifice are not the way for a woman to prolong a caree…
Gazing at the theatre's extraordinary 18th-century decor, I feel a refurbished Old Vic could better serve this city's creative lifeNeil Hannon's soaring score for Bristol Old Vic's beguiling…
Many are riled each winter by the wealth of family shows on offer " but those open to a bit of campery may be pleasantly surprisedWhen Ian McMillan took a playful tilt at the glitter and tin…
After heart surgery and six years away from the stage, comedian Robin Williams is ready to storm Broadway with his one-man show Continue reading...