Arthur Pita's A Dream Within A Midsummer Night's Dream shows Ballet Black's dancers at their most classical " then gleefully twists that upside down in a burst of Shakespeare-inspired mayhem…
It is more than 20 years since Sally Potter's ravishing cinema adaptation of Virginia Woolf's time-shifting odyssey wooed art house audiences. With Tilda Swinton in the title role as the gen…
It is more than 20 years since Sally Potter's ravishing cinema adaptation of Virginia Woolf's time-shifting odyssey wooed art house audiences. With Tilda Swinton in the title role as the gen…
"Committed contrariness" is how Daniel Kitson describes his new theatre show at one point. It's a description that could just as easily be applied to much of his career so far.
Never let it be said that thongs ain't what they used to be.
For 45 years, the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Tim Rice have defined the genre and broken box-office records. But now, the theatre pioneers are united in failure, after the ambiti…
For 45 years, the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Tim Rice have defined the genre and broken box-office records. But now, the theatre pioneers are united in failure, after the ambiti…
Phyllis Pearsall created the London A-Z in 1936, walking 23,000 streets by herself. Or so the story goes… it's the basis for this new musical, by playwright Diane Samuels and singer-songwr…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Stephen Ward has been axed from the West End following poor ticket sales after a run of just over three months.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Stephen Ward has been axed from the West End following poor ticket sales after a run of just over three months.
At the beginning of Theatre Royal Stratford East's revival of Joan Littlewood's 1963 musical Oh! What a Lovely War, a Pierrot clown describes a series of pre-war Bank holiday scenes, while a…
The story of Israel and its agonising contradictions has been told many times but this piece, by the acclaimed Theatre Ad Infinitum company, surely has the distinction of being the first to …
Shelagh Delaney, then an eighteen year old working-class Salford girl, famously wrote A Taste of Honey after seeing Terence Rattigan's Variations on a Theme at the Manchester Opera House.Â
After the lacerating force of his Pulitzer-winning drama August: Osage County, the rueful humour and essential benignity of Tracy Letts's follow-up play come as something of a surprise.
When the new wave of feminism meets the thorny subject of child sexualisation, sparks fly. From worrying about Miley Cyrus and Rihanna as tween role-models to plastic-surgery game apps for k…
It's so weird how Dobby became a sex symbol [Suttie played the geeky IT worker in Channel 4's long-running sitcom Peep Show until 2012.] I tried not to think too deeply about it, as it would…
Hollywood star Carey Mulligan is to make her West End debut, starring opposite Bill Nighy.
Two years after stepping down as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Sir Michael Boyd is enjoying being forced to learn new skills.
If Michael Gove gets his way, this year's centenary will teach us to ditch the Blackadder-myths that have misled us into believing the First World War was some kind of misbegotten shambles.
"You may remember me as the waiter who has all their lines cut in the first Sherlock Holmes film?" Judging by his career trajectory since, self-deprecating poshboy comic Miles Jupp protests …
"I've done an awful lot of musicals and I have an abysmal track record," admits Sir Alan Ayckbourn, choosing an unusual way to promote his latest project.
At just 50 minutes in duration Brian Friel's two-handed homage to Chekhov is a short piece. In the hands of the intoxicating Niamh Cusack and Sean Gallagher it flashes past in an instant. No…
Wayne McGregor's new ballet Tetractys " The Art of Fugue has already proved unlucky. Star ballerina Natalia Osipova was concussed at the second performance. With no second cast available due…
To recordings of Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow", the dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch stroll across the real turf floor and arrange themselves to sunbathe.
"All I know is that this is the system we have got," explains maid Christine, still shaking with anger at the discovery her valet fiancée John has shacked up for a night of alcohol-fuelled …