Three years on from its unveiling at Stratford, Rupert Goold transfers to the Almeida his flashy, egregious and unflaggingly provocative Las Vegas take on this most problematic of Shakespear…
You won't find funnier or more dazzlingly synchronised interaction between live performance and a crazily satiric animated world than in Golem, the latest piece by the 1927 company.
On 23 April this year, to mark the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, a company of 12 actors from London's Globe Theatre set sail on an epic journey.
Nutcrackers grow in repertory. English National Ballet's largely traditional production is getting more focused with time, its storytelling tighter. On opening night, it also had a ballerina…
The "memory" lives again, all right, as this most purr-plexing of1980's mega-smash musicals returns to the West End twelve years on from its phenomenal 21 year run at the New London.
So much about Christmas theatre productions is over the top. Flamboyant pantomime dames, brassy songs, big choruses. Not so with Travelling Light Theatre Company's holiday offering at Bristo…
Lizzie Clachan's darkly spectacular set is dominated by the great hulking ribs of a ship that then become the curved ominous trees of the treasure island " a nightmarish place, here, covered…
Matthew Bourne made his name putting a twist on classic tales, most famously in his Swan Lake with male swans. In Edward Scissorhands, he makes a devoted attempt to recreate Tim Burton's fai…
It's not surprising, in this centenary year, that there should now be much commemoration of the Christmas truce, that brief unofficial cessation of hostilities along the Western Front during…
The audiences at the test showings for the movie Little Shop of Horrors shrieked with delight throughout the screening " until the end when (semi-spoiler alert) all the musical's main charac…
The world's most popular song might be all about the season of joy but it has a strangely complex and mournful undertone.
The success of his last two Christmas shows staged at the Crucible set expectation levels at an extraordinary height for artistic director Daniel Evans.
The Edinburgh Playhouse has been forced to apologise after it sent out hundreds of pornographic DVDs to families and children as young as 10.
ZooNation Dance Company's new hip hop take on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland takes off once we reach Wonderland itself. A throng of splendid dancers jump onto the giant tea table, showing …
Ian McDiarmid doesn't hang about: he's straight in before I can even open my notebook. "The alleged anti-Semitism of the play, well of course it's not anti-Semitic, we wouldn't be doing it i…
"Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams," pronounces young John Merrick, the Elephant Man of Victorian Britain, played by Bradley Cooper.
A Madrid theatre company struggling to stay afloat under heavy taxes has come up with a novel solution: pornography.
Theatre and TV actors have rallied together to help a veteran West End costume expert find his terminally ill dog.
Meera Syal believes theatres are "missing a trick" by not staging more plays targeted at Indian audiences, saying they should target the "brown pound".
Tena Stivicic, a Croatian living in London, provides a brilliant window on to her country's history. It's complicated - both the history, and her storytelling approach.
Hope presents an impossible task. A Labour council in an unamed working class town must cut £22million. There's a cap on tax, and they've shut the urban farm; now they must slash care for…
When Kate Champion put an ad on social media calling for "fat dancers" for her next show, she got a mixed reaction. Some people immediately pounced, accusing the Australian choreographer of …
Roll up, roll up… it's time to shoot a president! Jamie Lloyd's production of Stephen Sondheim's 1990 musical pitches its audience into a zanily macabre funfair, the traverse stage littere…
Screen stars Gillian Anderson and Tom Hiddleston picked up the top acting awards at the 60th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards tonight.
The debate over whether William Shakespeare was secretly a Catholic has raged ever since his death, when it was claimed by some that "he died a papist".