Abstract artist Gerhard Richter and Radiohead drummer Philip Selway have been recruited by Britain's leading contemporary dance company to broaden the cultural appeal of its new production.
This one was Nick Thornsby's idea. As Mrs Malaprop says in Sheridan's play 'The Rivals', 'If I reprehend anything in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of…
They say that you should never meet your heroes, so for me it is something of a gamble going to interview Sir Richard Eyre. As a teenager in the London suburbs, I was drawn by the irresistib…
With 14 murders, mutilation and a final scene in which revenge is served to a mother as a pie containing the flesh of her two sons, Titus Andronicus is arguably Shakespeare's bloodiest play.
No one needs another jukebox musical, least of all The Kinks. Joe Penhall and Ray Davies instead offer the biography of a strange and unruly band, uncovering the pressure points, business de…
A confession: I fainted. I'm not alone: audiences are dropping like flies at this revival of Lucy Bailey's infamously gory 2006 staging.
Mark Rylance will go head to head with Stephen Fry for a Tony Award, on a "good day" for British productions which secured 14 nominations at the US theatre's equivalent of the Oscars.
I am sitting in the stalls at the London Coliseum watching a rehearsal for this weekend's world premiere of the opera Thebans. The artistic director of ENO, John Berry, leans over and whispe…
We've had no shortage of interesting, inventive Chekhov plays staged in London in recent years, and so the company of Moscow's Mossovet State Academic Theatre have their work cut out to make…
At the beginning of Derren Brown's latest stage show, Infamous, the illusionist declares he's gay, or as he puts it, "I'm a puff".
The spoof talent show musical I Can't Sing!, written by comedian Harry Hill and backed by Simon Cowell, is to close its doors after just six weeks and three days.
The spoof talent show musical I Can't Sing!, written by comedian Harry Hill and backed by Simon Cowell, is to close its doors after just six weeks and three days.
When asked later in life by an interviewer why he had never written a book quite as good as Catch-22, Joseph Heller hit back acidly. "Who has?" he replied.
Not content with recently making the most successful James Bond film ever and directing Simon Russell Beale in the National Theatre's hit production of King Lear, Sam Mendes is now at the st…
How do we balance the right to privacy with the demands of security, in a post-Snowden age? An age where we also, quite voluntarily, upload reams of information about ourselves every day? Pr…
"The Queen is dead: after a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule?"
Gregory Doran launched his new cycle of Shakespeare's history plays last year with the hugely successful Richard II starring David Tennant. He now follows that up with this spacious, viv…
When I was very little I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to be a butcher. Or a goalkeeper. Early in my adolescent years I took the risk of appearing as Sir Epicure Mammon in The Alchemi…
"When it rains in the winter, we'll just say to hell with goin' to work," observes migrant worker George, played by James Franco in John Steinbeck's 1937 stage adaptation of his classic nove…
We're used to heroines in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays who disguise themselves as boys for protection or in order to pursue the men they love. But once the barriers to marriage are sur…
We're used to heroines in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays who disguise themselves as boys for protection or in order to pursue the men they love. But once the barriers to marriage are sur…
The sculptor Auguste Rodin could make clay evoke the weight and power of flesh.
One of the aim's of the Globe's indoor Jacobean Playhouse was to experiment with theatrical traditions of the era. And with this debut show by The Globe Young Players, that intention is in p…
Richard Armitage will be the latest big screen actor to take to the London stage when he stars in a new production of The Crucible in June.
Catch-22 has long since left its story behind. The syllogism that lent its name to Joseph Heller's dazzling debut novel about an US air-force squadron in the Second World War now nestles in …