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Ab Fab is out and Bertolt Brecht is in ... the Little Voice star says she has found new ways to act now that she's in her forties
The West End is full of American plays. Great, but why must they be performed by actors with such dodgy accents?
Frankly, my dears, I did give a damn but not as big a damn as I had hoped. To put it another way: fiddlededee to some but not all the things that are occurring in a piece I wasn't always sur…
He has every reason for confidence but is surprisingly insecure
Sir Trevor Nunn made his name directing Shakespeare, but made his fortune staging musicals. He tells why he's bringing Scarlett O'Hara to the West End
As his early play mixing physics and espionage is revived, the playwright reveals what he learnt from it - and what he didn't
He's been an actor, a mountaineer, a trainee spaceman. Brian Blessed talks about his many lives
A raucous new Mamet comedy heads up a heartening, record-breaking season on Broadway
American musical-theatre stars, including Faith Prince of ENO's Kismet, are crossing the pond to make it big on the London stage
Hasn't he grown? Daniel Radcliffe talks to Lesley White about life as Harry Potter and the new stage role that spells a radical change of image
It is unusual for Broadway to give a premiere to a play that is as topical as it is serious, articulate, witty and absorbing, and yet I can't say that I exactly warmed to The Vertical Hour. …
This makes Hans Christian Andersen look like a kitchen-sink realist.
But who cares when Brown is on the dance floor or (inevitably) in his bedroom, matching Patrick Swayze, who played Johnny in the film. When he and Rich's Baby are at their sinuous best, you feel what that movie suggested.
Silly? Very. Funny? You bet.
No wonder his Willy Loman, doomed salesman, won him a Tony award in New York. It is a memorable performance that builds slowly but achieves extraordinary highs.
GREAT to have one's flagging faith in musical theatre restored yet again. Last Christmas the stage version of Mary Poppins turned out to be far better than the Disney film and, even though t…
