The creative team behind a new musical adaptation of Adrian Mole are scouring the iconic character's home city of Leicester to find the child star to play the self-proclaimed "13 ¾ year o…
Record-breaking musical Cats is getting a modern makeover complete with a rapping cat when it heads back to the West End later this year.
Record-breaking musical Cats is getting a modern makeover complete with a rapping cat when it heads back to the West End later this year.
Martin Freeman fans have been accused of "ruining" the West End production of Richard III with their relentless clapping and cheering.
Martin Freeman fans have been accused of "ruining" the West End production of Richard III with their relentless clapping and cheering.
Nick Payne's 45-minute monologue, which he performs himself, builds into a moving meditation on how we could better help the dying to die.
In many ways, it would be simpler to list the venues that Haworth Tompkins haven't worked on during their unrivalled 14-year-spell as the go-to theatre architects in this country. But that w…
The Scottish play is not on the programme but a Macbeth-like curse hangs over France's prestigious Avignon theatre festival this year.
Surely after a lifetime of service to theatre, television and film Richard Wilson deserves better than to be locked in a sound proof box and spun creakily in the darkness of an overheated an…
It is fascinating to think what we would make of Beryl Burton had she been racing today, the benefactor of sponsorship deals, personal appearances, endless TV interviews and relentless media…
Louise Lecavalier has always been an extreme performer. Dancing with Édouard Lock's La La La Human Steps in the 1980s and 90s, collaborating with Frank Zappa or David Bowie, she would hu…
This powerful play about the 1984-85 miners' strike and the profound cultural change that Thatcher's defeat of the NUM betokened comes with the endorsement of David Hare. He is quoted in…
Clearly nobody from a rival outfit has been hacking the phones of dramatist Richard Bean and the National Theatre's artistic director Nicholas Hytner or they wouldn't have been able to sprin…
The director clears her throat before addressing the cast: "OK, can we go from the magic out-of-my-fanny-conjuring bit...?" Anyone who chanced upon afternoon rehearsals in a room above a Lam…
Some people just cannot do anything right. Take the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare. Centuries after he made his name, he is being blamed for bringing misery to millions. No…
The Crucible first came into my consciousness as a 13-year-old, living in the white suburbs of South Africa in the mid-Eighties. Apartheid was in its most violent throes. The government decl…
The road from the motorway to the theatre is lined with yellow flowers, yellow bicycle symbols fastened to the lamp-posts, and yellow-sprayed full-sized bikes pinioned to trees and the facad…
How can you tell when an audience is laughing with someone or laughing at them? There is a moment in Sam Yates's production of the 1960 classic Billy Liar which made that clear.
Two former members of Anonymous are advising on a new play about the "hacktivist" group that targeted corporations' websites and the FBI, which is to be staged at the Royal Court in London l…
Legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals Cats and Evita are set to return to the West End stage.
Former wild child Lindsay Lohan is set to make her stage debut in the West End " in a play about the hysteria of Hollywood.
Marriage is a booze-fuelled Strindbergian blood sport in Edward Albee's 1962 classic and Tim Piggott-Smith and Clare Higgins land viciously funny linguistic blows on each other with a shocki…
The National Theatre has responded instantly to the verdicts reached in the phone-hacking trial with a "fast and furious" satire about the press, politicians and police that opens on Monday.
Claire Forlani's star was on the rise in the mid-1990s as she landed major roles in big-budget films alongside Brad Pitt, Sean Connery and Ben Stiller. At the same time she built a solid tra…
Twenty years ago, having taken myth as far as it can theatrically reach in the mighty nine-hour Mahabharata (all human and cosmic life was there), the great director Peter Brook made his fir…