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A play debuting at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is aiming to "set the record straight" about the Oscar-winning screen star Jane Fonda and her involvement in a controversial 1970s protest ag…
The rising popularity among young Muslim women of lacing up their boxing gloves and getting into the ring will be explored in a new show to hit the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
It's an uproariously funny drawing-room comedy in the tradition of Noël Coward and Oscar Wilde " except that all the characters are gay. In 1994, Kevin Elyot's play My Night with Reg open…
It's taken 300 years for America to fall for panto's thigh-slapping mix of slapstick humour and classic fairy tales. But the version which is now packing theatres in Los Angeles is a Disneyf…
The BalletBoyz' Roundhouse shows are an end and a beginning: London's last chance to see the admired double bill of Serpent and Fallen, plus a sneak preview of material from Young Men, the c…
The hairs on the back of your neck stand to attention so repeatedly during Timothy Sheader's gloriously sung production that they are quite worn out by the end (and this is the streamlined v…
The roof might be falling in at some venerable venues but London has supplanted New York as the most significant theatre capital in the world, a new report claims.
The roof might be falling in at some venerable venues but London has supplanted New York as the most significant theatre capital in the world, a new report claims.
When he was the artistic director of the Tricycle, Nicolas Kent was renowned for the creative tenacity with which he kept the heat turned up on the issue of Iraq " not least in the tribunal …
The Mariinsky Ballet opens its London season with radiant young lovers in a creaky old production. In the leading roles, Diana Vishneva and Vladimir Shklyarov are stellar as well as star-cro…
You can say what you like about this production, but it's definitely not underwrought. No, sir. We're in New Orleans though not as we have known it in previous stagings of Tennessee Williams…
When the curtain rises on Tennessee Williams's classic play A Streetcar Named Desire at London's Young Vic theatre tomorrow, the audience will include a very special guest " a close friend o…
It sounds a cock-eyed compliment to say that I wouldn't want to see Jeremy Herrin's brilliant production of Jennifer Haley's deeply disturbing and very responsibly provocative play again in …
A seaside sandpie is scattered across the stage with a single violent kick at the start of Gareth Farr's scream-of-rage of a play Britannia Waves the Rules.
Coppélia is classical ballet at its bounciest, complete with clockwork toys, a resolute and stroppy heroine and a tuneful Delibes score. English National Ballet's happy revival sails along,…
The beginning of the 2014 BBC Proms season was also the end of an era, as Roger Wright officially ended his time in charge. Rather than go out with fanfares however, Wright's final night was…
"Planes don't just go missing!" As an expression of exasperation, it probably seemed innocuous enough a year or so ago; Tom Basden's comedy was a hit at Edinburgh last summer. Now, of course…
"Comedy, love " and a bit with a dog. That's what they want," declares Thomas Henslowe, the debt-ridden theatre manager in Shakespeare in Love. We'll come to the love in a moment. But fi…
"Nothing to be done" is the opening line of Samuel Beckett's best-known play, Waiting for Godot. Yet, when faced with the German occupation of France and confronted by what the Nazis were do…
School's out and in celebration the Royal Exchange is offering an exhilarating version of Round the World in Eighty Days which is as near to a sophisticated summer panto as could be imagined.
CubanÃa, an evening by ballet star Carlos Acosta, has fine dancers and thin choreography, covering the gaps with plenty of energy.
Titus Andronicus, the "grotesquely violent" Shakespearean tale of revenge, has 14 deaths, many violently bloody, as well as rape and mutilation.
This is, incredibly, the first ever staging of Medea in the National Theatre's 50 year history. It's an omission all the more remarkable, given the complex feminist issues raised by Euri…
When Kevin Elyot's My Night with Reg opens at the Donmar Warehouse next week it will be a revival that is more than tinged with sadness. Just six weeks ago the playwright died. The show's di…
When Errollyn Wallen was 17 she was nearly murdered, more than once. She and a friend were hitch-hiking around Europe; several times, she says, men who had offered to help them then drew a k…
