"I know what it is to be bad. I've been bad, I know what it is to be lost." These are the first lines Lindsay Lohan will speak, all things being well, when she makes her West End debut in Da…
Doreen (superb Lorna Gayle) who is the black Miss Adelaide figure in this wonderfully winning joint production with Hackney Empire, is devoted to the titular Rudy, the ageing Jamaican propri…
The refurbished Dominion Theatre has reopened after a 14-week dark period with Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber's classic, directed unimaginatively by Bob Thompson.
The Lion King musical has grossed more money at the box office than any other film or stage show in history, the Walt Disney Company said last night.
Critics highlighting inequality in the theatre have pointed out that only one play written by a woman will be staged in the West End this week: The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie.Â
You might be tempted, early on, to lose patience with this peripatetic production of Romeo and Juliet. But that would be a big mistake, for it concludes with one of the most breath-taking sc…
Dyad Productions have found a niche telling stories of real-life and fictional women; they're had previous Fringe hits with Marilyn Monroe, Lizzy Bennet, and Elizabeth I. In tackling Virgini…
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A play about far right politics, told through the medium of karaoke?
Brighton Hippodrome, one of the last remaining Victorian circus buildings in the UK, has been named as the most threatened historic theatre in the country, topping a list of 33 "at risk" ven…
So, what's Ballyturk all about? Frankly, dear reader, I don't give a damn. Or rather, I've given up trying to figure it out.
Eleven men crouch in a pack, until one surges upwards, leaning out like the figurehead on the prow of a ship. Alexander Whitley's new The Murmuring, which opens a triple bill by BalletBoyz: …
Halfway through the first half of Maxine Peake's Hamlet she pulls a strip from the tape holding down the floor covering and pulls it up. Beneath the Michelangelo overlaid circle and square a…
Emma Thompson has admitted she has "never been so frightened" as returning to the stage earlier this year after more than two decades, and hopes she can beat the nausea when the show transfe…
Feminism has a long history of reclaiming words and phrases " and surely none in recent years was more ripe for re-tooling than David Cameron's patronising instruction to MP Angela Eagle to …
Feminism has a long history of reclaiming words and phrases " and surely none in recent years was more ripe for re-tooling than David Cameron's patronising instruction to MP Angela Eagle to …
The Menier Chocolate opened for business ten years ago, under the creative partnership of David Babani and Danielle Tarento.
The Bristol Old Vic's first collaboration with Liverpool's Everyman & Playhouse is appropriate, given both port cities' historical links with Ireland.
James Rhodes sits in a white T-shirt and looks at his piano's keys, as if wondering what will happen next. Then he plays slow and soft, fingers poised before touching the keys.
For a playwright, Shakespeare's Globe is the most experimental theatre in the country and not at all the dead, heritage, "merrie England" theme park which the more snooty members of the Brit…
The rarest creature on the operatic stage is the true Heldentenor, or "heroic tenor": a singer who has the stamina for Wagner's enormous operas, who can nail the high notes and whose sound c…
Myth takes over the Royal Opera House in this year's Deloitte Ignite festival, from the flaming braziers at the entrance to the Leonardo drawings around the Floral Hall.
The revolution is coming and it's going to be led by Anna Chancellor.
Blanche McIntyre makes a formidable debut in this special space with a production of The Comedy of Errors that is as enchanting as it is hilarious.Â
Performers in a 'human zoo'-inspired performance coming to London this month have hit back at claims that the exhibit is racist.