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The Royal Shakespeare Company is always likely to programme work weighted towards men and one male writer in particular, of course. But this year its deputy artistic director Erica Whyman de…
Tim Crouch's work has long been animated by his frustrated sense that theatre lags behind visual art in its over-reliance on the realistic and the figurative and in its limited range of dema…
The cost of a top-price ticket in the West End has tripled over the past decade, new research has found.
Although written in 1915, and set in 1880, Harold Brighouse's social comedy is updated here to the Sixties by director Nadia Fall. But it keeps the story of the overbearing, drunken Hobson, …
David Schneider's ebullient, clued-up celebration of the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre and its resilience in the face of Stalinist oppression is manifestly a labour of love " as comes across …
The staging for Luca Francesconi's Quartett, with a platform bisecting the auditorium beneath a forest of torn gauze, was intriguing.
The staging for Luca Francesconi's Quartett, with a platform bisecting the auditorium beneath a forest of torn gauze, was intriguing.
This award-winning 1995 played by David Hare was immediately recognised as being one of his richest and most satisfying works when it was premiered nearly two decades ago in a National Theat…
Dada Masilo's Swan Lake starts as a commentary on the world's best-known ballet, then spins into its own world. It makes an exuberant opening to the Sadler's Wells Sampled season, which offe…
A decade ago, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play Behzti, which depicts rape in a Sikh temple, sparked such violent protests that it was withdrawn on the grounds of public safety.
Schlepp, nosh, mishmash, chutzpah, schmooze, bagel, klutz, maven, schmaltz: all words that have made their way into English from Yiddish.
It's a dispiriting but perhaps unsurprising fact that this is the only national newspaper interview that Sam Walters MBE has been invited to give all year.
This is a production for which the phrase "in your face" might well have been invented.
Anne Washburn's serio-comic off-Broadway smash is one of those works that prove to be far more stimulating as a concept than in the actual execution. Subtitled "a post-electric play" and…
Performed by the Bad Boys of Dance, Rock the Ballet is the wrong kind of bad. The posters promise high kicks and big jumps; on stage, the Bad Boys don't know what to do with themselves betwe…
Stellar performances rise above the bustle of English National Ballet's Romeo and Juliet, staged in the round at the Royal Albert Hall. While Derek Deane's production keeps scenery and dance…
It's dawn, and Gordon Brown is looking back over his career before his staff even arrive for a 6am meeting. Protestant work ethic? Not half. And that's just one element of the former Labour …
Having excelled as a Tennessee Williams flaky golden-boy-turned gigolo in Sweet Bird of Youth last year, American actor Seth Numrich returns to the London stage now as the brilliant student …
Twenty years ago, the great Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa used the idea of the video game as a metaphor for the questings of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, played by Michael Sheen. You knew what …
Award season always feels more than a little perfunctory by this point in the year, but How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris made the audience at the Tony Awards sit up and take note …
British actors Mark Rylance and Sophie Okonedo were among those honoured at last night's Tony Awards in New York, hosted by Hugh Jackman.
The big winner at last night's Tony Awards in New York was A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which took home four trophies.
"Civilisations always collapse. We're sort of banking on this one going on for ever, but they always fall apart."
Let's not trust the stage directions," says Tim Crouch with knowing humour. He may be the writer of Adler & Gibb, a new play at London's Royal Court theatre, but he's far from precious o…
If all the world is a stage, there is only one that really matters to players tonight. At the Radio City Music Hall in New York, British theatre's leading ladies will spearhead an unpreceden…
