Ticket-holders heading for a new musical in south London this month will probably check the theatre's whereabouts first: and while the young and dextrous may consult their phones and tablets…
Alex Jennings will replace Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka in the West End adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic tale Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Lingerie queen Stephanie Canworth is rich, successful and beautiful. But guess what? Having it all is not everything it is cracked up to be. Marooned alone in a luxury hotel room with just h…
The background to Abi Morgan's new play about a sexual affair conducted over thirty years under strict rules of engagement is a good deal more interesting, alas, than the foreground of Vicky…
Andrew Hall directs this deeply moving and beautifully acted revival of Diane Samuels' now-classic 1993 play about the psychological scars left on some of the 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish chi…
Mike Noble remembers the night the house came down. It was shortly before the interval during The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The young actor plays Christopher Boone, the …
It has not been easy to reach Wayne McGregor, the Royal Ballet's resident choreographer, but no wonder. Creating a ballet to The Art of Fugue " the most mysterious, complex and puzzling of J…
Schiller began writing this Sturm und Drang classic at the age of nineteen and it created a sensation when it was first produced in 1782, the French Revolution just seven years away.
This debut play by veteran Broadway press agent Larry Belling homes in on the estranged children of recently widowed stroke-victim Lester Riley who, at the memorial service for his wife, sho…
This is one not to miss. David Bintley's sumptuous production of Britten's ballet The Prince of the Pagodas is a feast for the senses.
As the latest addition to the celebrity lecturing line-up at A C Grayling's controversial private educational institution the New College of the Humanities (NCH), Sir Trevor Nunn found the s…
To buy a ticket for a hotly tipped play, within seconds of booking opening, requires perseverance and nerve as websites falter, payments vanish and a confirmation finally limps through. The …
It is not like we weren't warned. "It is not a happy or a nice story," explain the programme notes to this rekindling of Frank Wedekind's epic descent into the obscene heart of the male psyc…
Could it all be over for Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova " the ballet world's best-known romance? The pair, who are thought of as the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of the dance world, were …
"Winnie is one of those parts, I believe," declared Peggy Ashcroft who took it on in 1975, "that actresses will want to play in the way that actors aim at Hamlet " a 'summit' part." Buried i…
A play about tracking down the Tiananmen Square "tank man" picked up three gongs at the 25th Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, which included being named best new play.
Here is an existential matter to chew on at the opera: why are we women so often attracted to men who are total, utter bastards? That question has been tackled in innumerable books, films an…
I love the theatre. I love its immediacy and invention. The places you can travel sitting in one seat. I love the collective experience (as long as fellow audience members don't distract you…
Two's Company present a fascinating commemorative triple bill of dramatic rarities from the 1920s about the experiences of the women left behind in Blighty during the First World War.
When I first interviewed theatre director Indhu Rubasingham, back in the summer of 2010, she was adamant about one thing: she had no desire to become an artistic director, but preferred inst…
Classical ballet is known for slim limbs, fine lines " and for making punishing physical demands on dancers. Horror stories of anorexic ballerinas and bullying ballet masters have a hold on …
How to: Survive Domesday
Simon Russell Beale was not gushing when he described Sam Mendes as his "professional soulmate". For close to a quarter of a century, the pair have brought out the best in one another. Their…
A light-hearted play about Christianity written almost 20 years ago is at the centre of an "astonishing" censorship row after performances were cancelled by councillors in Northern Ireland w…
Angela Lansbury is set return to the London stage after a hiatus of almost four decades, to the theatre where her mother made her theatre debut.