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Corruption (like charity) begins at home, we perceive in Alan Ayckbourn's play, written expressly for the Olivier Theatre in 1987 and now revived there in this spirited production by Adam Pe…
Chekhov's three sisters languish in a remote garrison town seven hundred miles from Moscow. Anya Reiss's new version relocates the play in 2014 in the ex-pat community around the British Emb…
Jeremy Paxman is set to make his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his one-man show, PAXO.
George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion between March and June 1912, but it's opening night in London was on 11 April 1914 " almost 100 years ago, and some 15 weeks before Britain declared war o…
The news that the League of Gentlemen's Steve Pemberton has written a new BBC adaptation of E F Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels snared my interest " and not just because Benson's fictional to…
The gritty story of life on a 1960s housing estate in the South Yorkshire coalfield is among the more unlikely subjects to be turned into a balletic, dance-theatre production.
Roy Williams' spirited, raging drama investigates police corruption in Jamaica, as he returns to the theatre that staged his first ever play in 1996 - and returns to his own roots, exploring…
Sherlock star Martin Freeman will play his first Shakespearean role as Richard III on the London stage this summer.
Our fascination with the Cambridge spy ring is undimmed, and Julian Mitchell's renowned 1981 play " which originally starred Rupert Everett and Kenneth Branagh, with Colin Firth playing the …
Inspired by the First World War, English National Ballet's Lest We Forget is both moving and ambitious.
Every adaptation is burdened by the question 'What's the point?'Â If the West End's two movie-to-stage shows in as many weeks has proved one thing, it's that an adaptation has to be prett…
It's not every day that the cast of The Lion King spontaneously break out in song on your way home, but that's exactly what happened during a recent plane journey from Brisbane to Sydney.
It's not every day that the cast of The Lion King spontaneously break out in song on your way home, but that's exactly what happened during a recent plane journey from Brisbane to Sydney.
Courtney Love has hinted that a Kurt Cobain musical is "very likely" to go ahead, as the 20th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death draws closer.
Courtney Love has hinted that a Kurt Cobain musical is "very likely" to go ahead, as the 20th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death draws closer.
Courtney Love has hinted that a Kurt Cobain musical is "very likely" to go ahead, as the 20th anniversary of the Nirvana frontman's death draws closer.
A radical ballet based on the life and works of Virginia Woolf that aims to evoke her "elegiac" writing style is to be the centrepiece of a new season at the Royal Opera House (ROH).
Premiering almost six months to the day before this autumn's Scottish Independence Referendum, it feels as though erstwhile filmmaker and screenwriter Tim Barrow's Union has fired the starti…
Premiering almost six months to the day before this autumn's Scottish Independence Referendum, it feels as though erstwhile filmmaker and screenwriter Tim Barrow's Union has fired the starti…
Steve McQueen's powerful and uncompromising 12 Years a Slave, winner of three Oscars including Best Picture, has been hailed as a milestone in black artistic success and truth-telling about …
What a conundrum the Royal Ballet is. On the one hand, here is a world-class company delighting sold-out houses with electrifying performances, and creating a real buzz.
"Sang et nerfs/Sang et nerfs" sing the excellent chorus at the start of this visceral, darkly imaginative musical version of Emile Zola's 1867 novel in which a torrid, adulterous affair lead…
Making his Royal Ballet debut in The Sleeping Beauty, Vadim Muntagirov gave a stellar performance. He's a prince to his fingertips, effortlessly elegant, with a purring ease to the high leap…
There is nothing like patching up a problem " but doing it ingeniously. The National Theatre of Scotland's hit vampire play Let the Right One In re-opens at the West End's Apollo Theatre thi…
A satire on The X Factor that's been endorsed and partly financed by Simon Cowell sounds an improbable proposition " equivalent to imagining a big West End revival of Pravda blessed and part…
