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The Royal Shakespeare Company has cast a black actor in the role of notorious villain Iago for the first time.
This is the second high-profile verbatim piece about the riots that erupted in the summer of 2011. It's compiled, edited and shaped by Alecky Blythe, who rightly Olivier award-nominated for …
Though I was raptly absorbed throughout by this superb stage version of Pat Barker's award-winning First World War novel (cannily adapted by Nicholas Wright and powerfully directed by Simon …
A little-known Caroline-era play is to be staged for the first time in almost four centuries; the winner of a competition between academics to resurrect an obscure work at the Royal Shakespe…
In recent times, there hasn't been a show that has polarised critical opinion as extremely as Dogfight, the Pasek and Paul musical, set in San Francisco in 1963, about a bunch of marines on …
Richard Bean is so prolific a dramatist that he makes Ernie Wise look as constipated as E.M. Forster.
The premiere of Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage, in 2011, was unlike any other the Royal Opera House has experienced.
With whom would you rather spend the weekend? Chez George and Martha on campus in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Or at the Cookham country retreat of the Bohemian Bliss family in Noel Cowar…
"You have been stabilised so you can be trusted," says one of the two African women, ululating and wiggling in ceremonial triumph, to the teenage girl under the blanket who has been flown fr…
I knew nothing about Alicia Markova before volunteering to help catalogue her personal papers and belongings at Boston University's Gotlieb Centre.
Two men in baggy sportswear and trainers are assaulting a young woman around a car park in south London; they spin and leap around her, throw her against a car's bonnet and clamber over her,…
As Michael Flatley prepares to bid farewell to the West End stage he hopes his new show will usher in a new generation of stars, including a 16-year-old acrobat who won gold for Team GB at l…
Instead of "Four legs good, two legs bad", the animals are whipped up to chant "Four legs badass, two legs wasteman" in this terrifically powerful update " adapted by James Kenworth and dire…
Making your Fringe debut is a nerve-racking enough experience. Making it, having never performed in front of an audience before? And in roles involving complex dance and fight routines? Just…
This reviewer is, by background and temperament, the total antithesis of a farm-boy. So as I journeyed down to Jevington Place Farm in Sussex for this show (and yes, you did read the title c…
The Mariinsky Ballet's Kimin Kim whirls through the air, dives into a quirky forward roll, then shoots straight up into a pure classical arabesque " and all in one exultant phrase.
The Mariinsky Ballet's London season opened with a dated Romeo and Juliet; it closes with a Cinderella that tries too hard to be modern. The constant is ballerina Diana Vishneva, radiant in …
Scotland is on a roll at the moment, although a visit to Edinburgh suggests that the excitement over the referendum may have peaked. Not in art, however. Inspired as much by the Commonwealth…
Dead Centre's play was a hit at Dublin's Fringe; written and directed by Ben Moukarzel with Ben Kidd also on directorial duties, it's dense, difficult, chewy stuff.
She'll forever be known to many as the catsuit-wearing Emma Peel in The Avengers, but veteran actress Dame Diana Rigg has also found a new generation of fans as the wimple-wearing, take-no-b…
One of this year's breakthrough, 'buzzy' shows, So It Goes is a strong calling card for new company On the Run.
The disembodied voice of Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpou speaks to us through a dictaphone, carefully placed under a microphone by a stage manager.
This is, to spit it out directly, not only the most enjoyable, moving and stimulating new musical that I have seen in ages but it is also " for all that it is set in San Francisco in 1963 am…
My Name Is... by Tamasha has been among my top five plays this year. It had a short first run at the Arcola theatre, then went to Glasgow and begins a national tour this September. Being in …
Daphna (superb Jenna Augen) is an intense, frizzy-haired and very voluble Vassar student who intends to move to Israel on graduation where she looks forward to joining the army.
