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Privileged dysfunctional families are to Polly Stenham what daffodils were to Wordsworth. You don't brace yourself for shocks reminiscent of Sarah Kane's Blasted, another piece set in a …
It's been three years since artistic director Kevin Spacey last performed at the Old Vic in Richard III.Â
"It feels a bit like playing for England, or something," says Polly Stenham, gazing out of a window on the fifth floor of the National Theatre. Not that Stenham, 27, is daunted by the prospe…
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey told off an audience member on the opening night of his one-man show on Wednesday, when their phone rang during a powerful speech.
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey told off an audience member on the opening night of his one-man show on Wednesday, when their phone rang during a powerful speech.
When will prime time television wake up to the charms of steam detective Jim Stringer?
We are used to cycles of ingeniously interlocking plays " such as Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests, a trilogy in which the events of a weekend are depicted from three distinct vantage p…
Natalia Osipova moves through Connectome like a connecting spark. Alastair Marriott's new work for The Royal Ballet was inspired by the wiring of the brain, connections that make up identity…
In this stage adaptation of Dalton Trumbo's 1939 novel, Jack Holden delivers a stunning tour de force as Joe Bonham, the young American soldier who fought in the First World War and comes ro…
Two senior dancers with the Royal Ballet are to boycott the company's first visit to Russia for more than a decade in protest at President Vladimir Putin's anti-gay legislation.
The most talked-about theatre production in London is Titus Andronicus, currently playing at Shakespeare's Globe. It has become notorious for racking up a body count in the audience as well …
Salford is to celebrate the life of one of its "most famous daughters", Shelagh Delaney, amid calls for an official apology over an alleged smear campaign against the late playwright by the …
The most talked-about theatre production in London is Titus Andronicus, currently playing at Shakespeare's Globe. It has become notorious for racking up a body count in the audience as well …
In a departure from custom at Shakespeare's Globe, the company do not perform a rousing life-goes-on-style jig at the end of Jonathan Munby's revival of Antony and Cleopatra.
He is a director with an abundance of epic blockbusters to his name; they are a global phenomenon that has entranced more than 100 million people.
Indicating his leg shackles, the caged cell, his garish uniform, and his female visitor, the mass murderer makes a semi-humorous allusion to The Silence of the Lambs.
The author of the bestselling thriller novel Gone Girl is to retell the story of Hamlet, saying she had "long been fascinated" by the play's themes of murder, betrayal and revenge.
In Polly Teale's slick English premiere of this Stephen Sachs two-hander, Kathleen Turner returns to the London stage as a character based on the real-life Teri Horton, an uneducated former …
The priest's arms end in a pair of shiny metal hooks. His hands were blown off by a letter-bomb sent to him in 1990 by the South African government's security apparatus. He says, without a t…
On 1 June, the London landscape will look a little different. Or a small, very busy, corner of it will. For 12 years a 20ft-tall gold statue of Freddie Mercury has glittered above the Domini…
If audiences at A Bunch of Amateurs find the play's plot a little far-fetched " cue an ageing Hollywood legend unable to learn his lines even when they're plastered across a fellow actor's b…
When Alan Bennett wrote Enjoy in 1980 he was - by comparison with his present reputation " little more than a jobbing writer. The global triumphs of The Madness of King George III and The Hi…
Miss Saigon has been off the West End stage for 15 years, but any doubt it may no longer find an audience was put to bed when its return broke the record for opening day ticket sales.
Miss Saigon has been off the West End stage for 15 years, but any doubt it may no longer find an audience was put to bed when its return broke the record for opening day ticket sales.
Sir Cameron Mackintosh is to add two more of London's major theatres to his empire and is planning major redevelopment works for both.
