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Millicent Binks is the kind of woman who is pursued at all times by an imaginary spotlight. Heads turn as she moves through the crowd with a wiggle and a wink.
For fans like me coming from out of town, the walk to Southampton Football Club's stadium from the city's train station is pretty familiar: up the hill, across the park, past the Premier Inn…
Xander Parish has certainly come back in style.
This is an acutely intelligent play about cyberbullying amongst teenage girls, a situation here worryingly exacerbated by the social insecurities and the differing attitudes towards social m…
As Scotland's Yes campaign looks to Scandinavia for political and cultural inspiration, Sophie Grabol, Danish star of The Killing is in Edinburgh, holding the stage like a 15th century Angel…
Adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Jonathan Munby, this is a highly intelligent and horribly compelling stage treatment of Zola's great 1867 novel of adulterous love, murder, and the…
Fans hoping to catch Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch in the ultimate Shakespearean role of Hamlet will have their chance from 10am today.
My mother says I always wanted to be famous There are certainly times when it's fun and I enjoy it, but not always. Sometimes it's nice to walk down the street and be recognised but other ti…
As a stand-up comedian, Larry David once took to the stage, silently assessed his audience and, deeming them unsuitable recipients of his act, announced, "This just isn't going to work", bef…
A respected West End producer has accused the largest theatre company in the UK of exploiting audiences, charging "ramped up" booking fees and even billing performers for water drunk on stag…
A respected West End producer has accused the largest theatre company in the UK of exploiting audiences, charging "ramped up" booking fees and even billing performers for water drunk on stag…
A respected West End producer has accused the largest theatre company in the UK of exploiting audiences, charging "ramped up" booking fees and even billing performers for water drunk on stag…
Solo for Two brings together two of the most exciting dancers in the world, and doesn't quite know what to do with them.
Actors performing in the West End have demanded a pay-rise of up to a tenth more a week after a change in their employment status landed producers with a "National Insurance windfall".
She brought Queen Elizabeth II to the big screen and to London's West End, and now Helen Mirren is due to reprise her critically-acclaimed role across the Atlantic.
It sounds a potentially grisly and exploitative scenario for a two-hander about the Beatle's enigmatic manager.
A theatre has refused to host the Israeli Embassy-backed UK Jewish Film Festival (UKJFF), in a protest against the ongoing crisis in Gaza.
Reg must be the most tirelessly promiscuous off-stage character in world drama (unless we are to fantasise that the mysterious Godot is a bit of "go-er"). We can only say with certainty that…
Safety fears, political opposition and controversy have prevented the majority of Western acts scheduled to appear in Israel over the past weeks from doing so.
Drugs. Isolation. Suicide. Depression. Self-harm. Confidence issues. Paranoia. A group of year 8 pupils at Hampton Academy in south-west London are discussing the consequences of bullying. T…
There's a changing of the guard at the Mariinsky Ballet. In this London summer season, the celebrated St Petersburg company is promoting its young artists, showing off a new generation of Sw…
David Eldridge's fantastically ambitious play colonises the Globe in a flamboyantly orchestrated production of great sensuous sweep and dialectical dazzle by James Dacre. It's a "fantasi…
It's the dawn of the newly independent Scotland and the nation's Foreign Minister designate - heavily pregnant, oh irony, with an Englishman's baby - is preparing to deliver her first speech…
The Mariinsky Ballet opens its London season with radiant young lovers in a creaky old production.
Fans have been given their first glimpse of Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet in a new production of the Shakespearean tragedy - but it might not be what they quite expected.
