If you've ever seen Adam Riches live, he probably made you wheeze with laughter " shot through with a prayer of "please, not me!" The comedian, who netted the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award…
I have a letter from George Bernard Shaw. It is framed and hangs in my study, having been presented to me by a grateful board at the end of my period as director of the National Theatre. Sha…
I have a letter from George Bernard Shaw. It is framed and hangs in my study, having been presented to me by a grateful board at the end of my period as director of the National Theatre. Sha…
The Lyric's Secret Theatre repertory invites you to make a date with shows advertised by number. In this case it is Chamber Piece by Caroline Bird, a pitch-black comedy in which a monstrous …
Joan Littlewood and Peter Brook are revered as theatrical innovators who left a revolutionary mark on the stage. But history will not recall today's generation of directors, who have failed …
Around the World is not by the Orson Welles we know - or, at least believe, we know. It is far more Road to Morocco than Citizen Kane.
There is no doubting that Headlong's production of Orwell's dystopian novel is one of some power and tremendous ingenuity. I left the theatre feeling genuinely unsettled " but not moved. The…
Sun, the latest work by Hofesh Shechter, starts with a whirl of jokes and imagery. At first, the jumble of silky movement and unexpected sights drives forward on its own energy. Then repetit…
Home was written in 1970 for the rarefied viola and oboe partnership of Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud and it hasn't been seen in London since the revival with Richard Briers and Paul Edd…
Next week the curtain rises on a new theatre in London. The Hope Theatre will open in a function room above The Hope and Anchor pub on Upper Street in Islington, best known for staging rock …
They are in different theatres and working on different shows, but Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber are together again in the West End. The most renowned musical theatre writing partnership …
Kander and Ebb used cabaret to counterpoint the rise of Nazism and, in Chicago, they co-opted vaudeville to satirise the corrupting power of publicity. In this brilliantly barbed new musical…
Gemma Arterton is returning to Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London next year to play the Duchess of Malfi.
A top dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre has pleaded not guilty to masterminding an acid attack on the ballet's artistic director.
Sir Tom Stoppard has paid tribute to Lou Reed, whose music inspired his award-winning play Rock 'n' Roll, calling the ground-breaking artist who died on Sunday, a "hero because he was an ant…
This is the third instalment in the adventurous Secret Theatre repertory that the Lyric is presenting during its rebuild. You are invited to make a blind date with shows that are advertised …
The "Crookback King" has been despatched on stages around the world for more than 400 years to Richmond's merciless cry: "The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead."
On the surface, yet another revival of Harold Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal shouldn't be all that notable.
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Theatre
After their glorious Hamlet, David Tennant and Gregory Doran reunite for a lucid, gripping Richard II.
"I thought you didn't do stereotypes," says one of the characters to his wife. "You've restored my faith in them,"she replies tetchily. I wish the same could be said about this energetic new…
The artistic director of the National Youth Theatre has claimed formal three-year drama school courses are a waste of time and money for the "majority of actors".
Rambert has marvellous dancers, but does it have material worthy of them? The company's autumn tour features two new works, Ashley Page's patchy Subterrain and Barak Marshall's spiteful The …
The Five and the Prophecy of Prana puts some of the UK's best hip hop dancers into a mash-up of superhero comics, Japanese manga and kung fu movies. The storytelling is a jumble, but the mov…