Shakespeare should be "at the core of the British education system," according to acclaimed actor Simon Callow, saying the Bard's work teaches "basic life lessons. Like empathy and how peopl…
Olwen Fouere begins by removing her shoes and walking barefoot over a pattern of salt crystals to the microphone which is propped on a sinuously curved stand.
When the people of Liverpool were asked what they would like to remain in their newly rebuilt Everyman Theatre they wanted three things.
There's a one-act play by Thornton Wilder called The Long Christmas Dinner which is rarely seen in this country but was eloquently revived a couple of years ago by the Savio(u)r Theatre Comp…
Queen musical We Will Rock You is to close in London at the end of May after a 12 year run.
How does anyone transform something as well known and loved as Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood into an opera? The Welsh poet's 1954 masterpiece is a radio play with more than 50 characters, p…
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Britain's most prestigious theatre awards has three women in the running to be named best director for the first time in its 38-year history, while the number of nominations for black actors…
The full title of Jackie Sibblies Drury's inventive and challenging play is We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From theÂ…
The stage is dark. A voiceover begins to describe a nude painting of Venus in the style of a museum audio guide. Then the lights go up, to reveal a teenage boy, masturbating furiously " whil…
It has the backing of the undisputed king of television talent shows, but the first performance of the X Factor musical didn't exactly run as smoothly as a Saturday night ratings grabber.
It has the backing of the undisputed king of television talent shows, but the first performance of the X Factor musical didn't exactly run as smoothly as a Saturday night ratings grabber.
American dramatist David Lindsay-Abaire first sprang to our attention on this side of the Atlantic when, in 2004, Sam Mendes chose to launch a new production company with Fuddy Meers, a rele…
IJAD Dance's In-finite Space takes place underground, but still manages to be driven by Twitter. It mixes audience tweets with ideas of space and science from the medieval Arabic world to th…
The most striking thing about this well-crafted adaptation of John Steinbeck's exam staple comes with the addition of the music of Heather Christian.
Vicky Jones's award-winning debut play is a savage, uncomfortably funny dissection of a relationship in which desire has turned to destructiveness.Â
Gemma Arterton is "beyond thrilled" to have landed the lead role in a new West End adaptation of hit British film Made in Dagenham.
"Make sure your phones are not on silent." Not something you hear often in the theatre - but in Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe's interactive show, your mobile is crucial. We leave voice…
You would think when trying to encourage audiences to take a risk on a new musical, that rule 101, to use American parlance, would be to avoid using the word "urine" in the title.
Who's afraid of adapting Virginia Woolf? It is a scary prospect " the modernist is famously experimental with form, a pioneer of stream-of-consciousness writing. Her novels are concerned wit…
Its producers hope it will be the biggest new musical to hit the West End since The Book of Mormon launched last year, but the future of I Can't Sing!, a parody of The X Factor, has been cal…
Two dancers in lucha libre masks mirror each other's movements on stage as traditional Mexican Ranchera music plays in the background.
As we mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, there has been a profusion of books and articles focusing on its much-disputed causes.
As we mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, there has been a profusion of books and articles focusing on its much-disputed causes.
The fourth wall is boisterously breached and meta-theatrical mayhem breaks loose in Francis Beaumont's 1607 play, now spiritedly revived by Adele Thomas.