Deservedly transferring from Bath - having been imported from the US - Joshua Harmon's 90-minute blast of family drama is drawn so sharply you'd think he'd sliced it out of his imagination w…
Bradley Cooper will be bringing his Broadway play The Elephant Man to London's West End this summer.
The new head of the National Theatre has made a passionate defence of Britain's subsidised theatre calling it the "fertiliser of world culture".
Damon Albarn has created a new musical version of the literary classic Alice In Wonderland, which will be staged this year.
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling is as much a pitch-black comedy as a tragedy, the grisly plot of murder, adultery and deceit shot through with comic business. Dominic Dr…
Brian Blessed has collapsed on stage while playing King Lear, only to return shortly afterwards to finish the show.
With a swinging pair of silver bollocks, Mary is the god of her island, floating "30ft above Shitworld". She's called it Haven. The rest of this comedy about tax evasion is about as subtle -…
What depths will we sink to for love? In The Changeling, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's blackly comic Jacobean tragedy, the answer is very, very murky ones. Lovers murder, bed-hop and…
What gives us the right to be better off than the poor? How can we enjoy the privileges of a comfortable life in a Western democracy when these advantages owe so much to the misery of the ex…
Dame Judi Dench, 80
I decided to write Di and Viv and Rose in 2009 when I saw a woman's calves that were just like the calves of a friend, Anne, who I hadn't seen for months. The lurch of longing to see her (pr…
It is nearly 50 years since Tom Stoppard made theatre history at the National Theatre with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an existential tragicomedy featuring bit-part characters dra…
The audience are packed round a kind of corporate boxing ring, replete with water cooler, for Mike Bartlett's short, shocking play about office politics and bullying.
This Othello smashes you in the face like a broken bottle. Even before it begins hard pounding music spills out from the auditorium into the theatre foyer. Once inside the stage looks like a…
The controversial American playwright Neil LaBute is better known for his West End plays, including In a Forest, Dark and Deep, than he is for writing a five-minute play about freedom of exp…
Darcey Bussell will front a BBC search to find a new young dance star in a competition which places hip hop moves on an equal footing to ballet.
Diana Nneka Atuona's remarkable debut play was originally aired at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence and now kicks off the Royal Court's year in Matthew Dunster's powerfully disturbin…
"The most expensive out-of-town try-out in theatre history," is director Bartlett Sher's joky description of the brief New York run in 2010 of this musical comedy adaptation of Pedro Almodov…
Wannabe rock-musical stars have been queuing for auditions this week in New York. They're all hoping for a part in Andrew Lloyd Webber's theatrical version of the Jack Black film, School of …
When the writer and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein purchased Highland Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1940, he had just spent an unsuccessful decade in Hollywood, and may have believed the b…
The Icons season in the studio has begun strongly with this wittily macabre bitch-fest, scripted by James Greaves and co-devised by the performers. It imagines Bette Davis (Sarah Thom) on he…
English National Ballet's Swan Lake opens with a real coup: not just bagging a guest appearance from Ivan Vasiliev, the ex-Bolshoi star famed for his superpowered jump and strong charisma, b…
There is something to be said for going back to basics. Cirque du Soleil has been getting bigger, flashier and flabbier too in some theatrically over-poised, acrobatically underwhelming show…
Writer Jon Conway has performed snippets from his controversial new play about Princess Diana.
For the theatre designer Tom Piper, 2014 was a year like no other. Together with the artist Paul Cummins, he was co-creator of the commemorative the Second World War installation, Blood Swep…