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When the Royal Court theatre announced a season of plays about revolution, it didn't seem to have much scope for eight-year-olds.
It was a nine-hour stage epic that helped launch the acting careers of Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy " and led to the backstage conception of a baby girl.
Pudsey Bear will be back in our living rooms tonight as Children in Need returns to BBC One for another charity fundraising bonanza.
There have been few plays this century more mysterious than Jez Butterworth's The River.
You may feel that you've endured an entire lifetime of Christmases, white and otherwise, by the end of this amiable, lavish, dynamically danced, but dramatically insipid and ersatz-seeming s…
"Did he really deserve a place in here?" a mourner at St. Paul's Cathedral asks of T.E. Lawrence at the beginning of Lawrence Of Arabia. David Lean's epic argued the case that Lawrence, for …
The Donmar Warehouse has launched a competition to find the most "electric" speakers of the monologues Shakespeare gave his leading men. The only condition is the entrants must be teenage gi…
Meera Syal, 53, and now three decades into her stage and screen career, knows what it is to be nervous.
Crystal Pite's stunning new Polaris ends this evening of dance to music by Thomas Adès on a thrilling high " and by then, it needs it. With Adès playing and conducting his own works, it's …
Ambiguity dominates the latest Royal Ballet mixed bill. Liam Scarlett's new The Age of Anxiety presents characters from a 1940s world, like an Edward Hopper painting. They're superbly danced…
As the Independent on Sunday celebrates influential members of the LGBT community in its 2014 Rainbow List, Irreverent Dance studio is preparing to open what could be the first wheelchair-ac…
They're an impressive pairing, the Director Designate of the National Theatre and the Pulitzer Prize winner.
First a bestselling book series, then a wildly popular movie franchise and now, a Hunger Games stage show has been announced for 2016.
In the programme for The Last Ship, a new Broadway musical which has been scored by Sting, the former Police frontman notes he is "drawing upon his memories of the shipbuilding community whe…
The second season of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the intimate, candle-lit jewel box of an indoor theatre at Shakespeare's Globe, gets off to a fiercely affronting start now with Michael Lon…
Maggie the Cat's stream of invective fires across the stage like a bullet at the start of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Though the play is set in the 1950s there is something sp…
The parallels with Billy Elliot are unmistakable. The creators of Made in Dagenham have likewise seized on a hugely popular feelgood movie and transformed it into a big-budget, even more cro…
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. Simon Stokes' revival…
Sylvie Guillem, renowned as one of the finest dancers of her generation, is to hang up her ballet pumps in May after 39 years.
Taylor Swift may be currently kicking out against the media's new 'rental' revenue model by removing her music from Spotify, but other, more venerable artists are apparently embracing the di…
Dance 'til Dawn is part musical, part Strictly Come Dancing vehicle, with a big dollop of panto. It's a cheerful affair that doesn't take itself too seriously, but still delivers on its danc…
No one likes to think about tax in their downtime but with her new show, Islands, the playwright and performer Caroline Horton is placing it centre stage. "It's fascinating the way we think …
What do you do with a problem like Annie?
Kristin Scott Thomas has been confirmed to star as the Queen in a revival of Peter Morgan's hit play, The Audience.
New York theatre toasts Tom Stoppard like no other living playwright. To mark the 2006 production of his trilogy The Coast of Utopia, Lincoln Center Theatre created a trio of Russian-themed …
