James Franco and Chris O'Dowd have made their first appearances as George and Lennie in an official poster for the upcoming Broadway revival of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
One hesitates to use the phrase "a marriage made in heaven" in the vicinity of Henry VIII but that would be a fair way of describing this brilliant union between the RSC and Hilary Mantel.
International circus troupe Cirque du Soleil opens its performance of Quidam with an announcement of thanks to its sponsors, including an obscure Japanese car company and a photocopying firm…
Award-winning West End play The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time is moving to a new venue after the ceiling collapse at the Apollo Theatre which injured audience members.
Benjamin Millepied met his wife, Hollywood star Natalie Portman when he choreographed her for the film Black Swan. Now they are set to become France's new golden couple, when Millepied takes…
A cramped, basement room in the bowels of a suburban repertory theatre seems an unlikely place to be getting a lesson in cool from the man who defined the very notion for a generation of kid…
The Prince of the PagodasBirmingham Royal Ballet dance the UK premiere of David Bintley's production, a fairy tale with a brave heroine and a salamander prince. It's danced to Benjamin Britt…
King LearThis production reunites Simon Russell Beale with director Sam Mendes, for whom he has given many of his greatest performances, and with Adrian Scarborough (once perfectly paired in…
Jamie Lloyd has become the youngest director to break into The Stage 100 power list since Sam Mendes.
The inspiration for Johnny "Rooster" Byron, the heavy drinking lead in the transatlantic stage hit Jerusalem, died last week outside his local pub.
The Spooks actress Keeley Hawes has quit the West End show Barking in Essex after continually clashing with her co-star, Sheila Hancock, in what one source described as "a battle between two…
The Spooks actress Keeley Hawes has quit the West End show Barking in Essex after continually clashing with her co-star, Sheila Hancock, in what one source described as "a battle between two…
The London International Mime Festival takes place next month across the capital and, in its 38th year, it promises to be more striking than ever. Forget Marcel Marceau being trapped in a bo…
Natalia Osipova as Juliet with The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London
Booing and hissing ex-soap stars and Eighties musicians has become an integral, if confusing, part of the Christmas tradition in the UK. As a kid, I remember pulling at my mum's ski-pants to…
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Anton Chekhov is remembered for his great works of fiction and " after Shakespeare " is the second most performed playwright in history. But he was also a qualified doctor who made a curious…
The National Theatre is to tackle the "resurgent" issue of gender inequality with a new play created by two rising stars of the theatre world, using controversial hit "Blurred Lines" as its …
As the title indicates, Peter Pan, the "Boy Who Would Not Grow Up" cedes centre stage to Wendy, the girl who had to, in Ella Hickson's entrancing feminist reboot of the J M Barrie classic. S…
As the title indicates, Peter Pan, the "Boy Who Would Not Grow Up" cedes centre stage to Wendy, the girl who had to, in Ella Hickson's entrancing feminist reboot of the J M Barrie classic.Â…
Investigators were on Friday trying to discover if heavy rainfall played a part in Thursday night's ceiling collapse at Apollo Theatre which injured 79 people.
Tim Price, whose play, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, caused a stir last year has got a bit political again with a one-man play based on the Occupy movement that grew outside Sai…
A new stage play based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter series is due to open in the West End within two years.
It began with a dash to the theatre in the rain. I had been in Chinatown for an early dinner with Jess, my girlfriend. Earlier yesterday she had revealed my first Christmas present " tickets…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's crusading new musical proposes that the chief victim of the Profumo scandal of 1963 was not the disgraced Minister for War but Stephen Ward, the fashionable osteopath w…