It's the role that keeps on yielding gongs, for one actress at least. Having already picked up the Olivier, Bafta and Oscar statuettes for her two portrayals of the Queen, Dame Helen Mirren …
What is it? A stage version of P G Wodehouse's 1938 novel, Code of the Woosters. Stephen Mangan stars at Bertie Wooster, while Matthew Macfadyen is his man Jeeves, and Mark Hadfield is serva…
What is it? Frank Skinner is back, with his first stand-up show in six years, Man in a Suit, designed for smaller theatres rather than stadium tours.
It's a necessity, a pleasure, and as key to art as it is to life. From sumptuous still lifes to signature dishes in cult TV, food sustains many of our great cultural works. It can persuade, …
It seems a suitably Orwellian reward to the extraordinary success story that is Nottingham Playhouse's co-production of 1984. On the day that tickets for its keenly-awaited opening at th…
Shakespeare in Love is set to become the latest hit film to travel to the West End, with the adaptation of the multiple Oscar winning movie opening next summer.
Stephen Mangan is the Platonic ideal as Bertie Wooster, as is clear from the moment he clocks the audience and bares his teeth in the most adorably asinine and good-natured grin in captivity…
The Human Seasons, David Dawson's new work for The Royal Ballet, is speedy, athletic and hectically busy. The curtain rises and falls on four couples, already in the middle of over-the-head …
Christine Keeler is certainly in the limelight: 2013's already seen Profumo: the Musical, while Andrew Lloyd Webber's Stephen Ward opens next month.
For a play with such a tight focus on a single room, Twelve Angry Men has been on quite the journey. In 1954, writer Reginald Rose served on a jury, which fought for eight hours over a mansl…
The oldest continually working theatre in Britain is going back to its roots with plans for a radical multi-million pound facelift that will give patrons a taste of theatre-going in the 18th…
First it made the move from the South Bank's Globe Theatre to the Apollo in the West End. Now the sellout Shakespeare production is taking the biggest step of all " across the Atlantic to Br…
John Martyn and Nick Drake have just tipped up backstage at an Oxford College Commemorative Ball. It is 1973. The older, newly successful man, Martyn, is performing tonight and is having a r…
Claudia O'Doherty is a Foster's Award-nominated stand- up touring the UK as part of The Invisible Dot's New Wave tour. She tells Charlotte Cripps about her current reading, watching and list…
Helen Mirren, Billie Piper and Kristin Scott Thomas will go head to head at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Helen Mirren, Billie Piper and Kristin Scott Thomas will go head to head at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
"Orgasms for all the family," is not the usual manner in which way a director might describe his play, but then In the Next Room or the vibrator play is not your usual play. Indeed director …
From Cabaret to Chicago, Kander and Ebb made some of the finest musicals ever to hit the stage. Now John Kander has returned to the theatre for the first time since the death of his writing …
Tall, rumpled and angular, Sir Jonathan Miller, CBE, FRCP, doctor, legendary theatre and opera director, polymath, polyglot, comedian, savant and titan of the two cultures, stands outside th…
Sadler's Wells plans to become a world-leading dance venue with plans for a new theatre in London, after attracting audiences of nearly half a million last year.
New York's Chelsea Hotel has been a home to artists, writers and musicians for more than a century. The latest touring work from Cardiff-based dance theatre company Earthfall evokes the hote…
Courtroom drama " suspense, inquisition, revelation and justice " is the lifeblood of theatre, from the Greeks to Agatha Christie, and the return to the West End of one of the great modern e…
The title might lead you to expect that the main focus of David Pinner's bilious 1973 comedy would be on the "Big Four" " Truman, Stalin, Churchill and Atlee " and their meeting in Occupied …
Anniversary celebrations can be self-indulgent, long-winded affairs, but the National Theatre's 50th birthday bash " broadcast live from the Olivier on BBC2 on Saturday night " was a marvel …
Roxana Silbert is the artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre where her latest production, Molière's comedy Tartuffe, runs until 16 November. She tells Charlotte Cripps about …