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My play Visitors tells the story of the last few weeks an elderly couple spend together on the farm where they have lived their lives. It's a story about ageing and care, about rural life in…
Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan stand face to face, hands held, arms rippling in a winding ribbon of movement. Sacred Monsters is a meandering, sometimes self-indulgent show, but there's real …
Despite the grandeur of the RAH, Damon Albarn's second-night performance is fairly raucous.
The last time the musical version of Pedro Almodóvar's 1988 film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was staged " on Broadway, in 2010 " it's fair to say it was only on the verge of…
The flop sequel to cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show is to be adapted for the London stage.
It's fair to say that Havana won't have seen anything like it. On Christmas Eve, a new production of Rent " the smash hit, Pulitzer and Tony award-winning musical about drag queens, homeless…
Previously unpublished letters written by a young Harold Pinter showing the depth of his personal ambition and early devotion to Samuel Beckett have come to light " but could only be dated t…
Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan stand face to face, hands held, arms rippling in a winding ribbon of movement. Sacred Monsters is a meandering, sometimes self-indulgent show, but there's real …
To describe any play as charming risks sounding luke-warm, but this much-garlanded musical has charm in abundance and that makes for a delightful evening.
Plays about politics have always made me nervous. Both as a viewer and a writer. I think everyone has sat in a theatre and felt lectured to. I hope I haven't written any of those plays, but …
Sting still packs out venues around the world for his catalogue of hits but the British pop star is about to find out whether he can do the same on Broadway.
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It was the ballet that never made it to opening night. On 8 April 1931, the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich presented the dress rehearsal for The Bolt, a tale of an indolent worker who …
First look pictures have been releasing showing Ronan Keating as the new lead in award-winning musical Once.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has gone the extra mile to recreate a rather painful-sounding prop for its major new production of Henry IV parts I and II.
Politicians are being "unfairly" portrayed in West End plays as self-serving individuals, according to Sir John Major, who claims it discourages people from voting.
Everything in Triptych, Rambert's latest mixed bill, is too long. Mark Baldwin's new The Strange Charm of Mother Nature has some sumptuous dancing, slowed down by episodic structure and dim …
The shadow of a mighty passenger jet flies low over the Olivier stalls, the nearness of its deafening roar making the scalp tighten. Then, like a cloudburst of blessings, a great cascade of …
The third leg of Paul Miller's opening season as AD strikes out into calculatedly unsettling terrain now with Ned Bennett's ace production of this brilliantly creepy and compelling new work …
It's hard to credit that a play as frank about sexual behaviour as this one got past the censor unscathed in 1950.
Gillian Anderson, Tom Hiddleston and Kristin Scott Thomas are among the nominees for acting prizes at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
So legendary were the gory, blood-spattered productions of Paris's Theatre du Grand Guignol at the end of the 19th century, the name itself became shorthand for horror.
The police have often featured in the plays of Roy Williams. One thinks of his penetrating treatment of the conflicted post-Macpherson team investigating the murder of a studious black teena…
