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Puccini didn't intend Mimi to be black, but a black Mimi sits well in La Boheme, because the Parisian demi-monde has always been a multiracial affair.
There are thousands of good movies, thousands of the good books, thousands of good plays but good musicals? Couple of hundred… if you're lucky?
In the Royal Opera House's airy MacMillan Studio, the young French choreographer Ludovic Ondiviela is rehearsing a pas de deux from his new ballet, Cassandra.
"If there are no losers, how could anyone ever win?" ponders Uteshitelny, captain of the gang of mid-19th century card sharks and conmen planning an elaborate sting operation in this update …
The Barbican's short and highly rewarding International Ibsen Festival comes to an unforgettable climax now with this version of The Wild Duck by Sydney's Belvoir theatre company.
In a rehearsal studio in east London, I have met Lloyd Newson, the pioneering artistic director of dance-theatre company DV8, to discuss his latest piece John, opening at the National next w…
Keira Knightley is to make her Broadway debut next year in a stage version of the famous French novel Therese Raquin.
Actors are "scared" of tackling the role of Rupert Murdoch on stage because he has "so much power", playwright David Williamson has said.
Do outdoor team-building weekends ever work? Do they produce tightly bonded managers who have felt on their racing pulses the power of communication, delegation and clear visionary goals…
Chekhov without an interval? It sounds like a wanton exercise in sadism against the bladder.
Since amateur dramatics are played out weekly in the Premier League, from elaborate goal celebrations to acrobatic dives, few would suggest that players or even coaches need much training fr…
Middle-class roles so dominate British theatre and television that drama schools are training working-class stars to act more posh, according to the director of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art…
On its first outing, Fiona Shaw's production of The Marriage of Figaro was both fussy and unfunny, but in revival it's greatly improved. There are still too many pointless sight-gags, the cu…
Stage musicals of films can seem like cynical beasts, but David Baddiel and Erran Baron Cohen's version of their own 2010 cult film The Infidel bucks the trend: it got off the ground thanks …
In Bosque Ardora, her latest show, flamenco goddess RocÃo Molina ranges from magnificently weird to just plain odd. It's a very mixed bag, but there's never any doubt that she's a major p…
In Bosque Ardora, her latest show, flamenco goddess RocÃo Molina ranges from magnificently weird to just plain odd. It's a very mixed bag, but there's never any doubt that she's a major p…
There are few plays that manage to be so delightful and discomfiting at the same time as East Is East. Ayub Khan Din's wonderfully vivacious and penetrating autobiographical comedy about gro…
Imelda Staunton's knock-out, psychologically searching performance as Momma Rose, the showbiz mother from hell, brilliantly puts the "ow" in "wow-factor" and positions the "wow" up there in …
The third of Anya Reiss' versions of Chekhov sees the young playwright once again bringing him bang up to date. We're in a rural, northern farmstead, though there's enough signal for mobile …
There are no more dreaded words in the English theatre today than "in a version by". Whether it's Ibsen's Ghosts, Euripides' Medea or Sophocles' Electra, nothing will do but that the interna…
The author David Pearce has donated the stage rights to his football novel The Damned Utd, which was turned into an acclaimed film, to help save a struggling Yorkshire theatre company.
FilmI saw A Most Wanted Man, which I liked very much on many levels. Since being introduced to Eleanor Wachtel and her interviews with John le Carré, I have fallen in love with him. That, a…
Fully paid-up shoe fetishists should have it gently broken to them that there is no intricately choreographed fantasia about designer footwear in this disco-musical by David (Talking Heads) …
Fully paid-up shoe fetishists should have it gently broken to them that there is no intricately choreographed fantasia about designer footwear in this disco-musical by David (Talking Heads) …
Converting the words of Sophocles into the argot of 21st century street slang is a highwire act.
