If you're imagining a stage version of a cosy tea-time telly adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic, think again. Experimental theatre-maker Peter McMaster leads this troupe of four young, Sco…
You remember Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr and their passionate snog in the surf, naturally. Ditto: the brooding intensity of Montgomery Clift and the terrifying bombardment of Pearl Harbo…
In this powerful and haunting new play, the Indian writer Abhishek Majumdar explores the human cost of the conflict in Kashmir through the trials of two young Muslim siblings and a Srinagar …
Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko denied any guilt as he went on trial today over an acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet.
Property tycoon Peter Beckwith, father of the socialite Tamara, has sold his stake in the world's biggest live theatre company, Ambassador Theatre Group, which he co-founded more than 20 yea…
No English director is a better advocate for the glories of Spanish Golden Age drama than Laurence Boswell " as he proves once again with the richly enterprising three-play repertory he has …
Returning to the stage after a long injury, the Royal Ballet's Lauren Cuthbertson is back in peak condition. She takes real risks in the giddy, swooning steps of Kenneth MacMillan's duets, s…
The stars of the British stage will gather at a glitzy gala to celebrate 50 years of the National Theatre next month. Yet as the great actors return to briefly reprise some of their best-lov…
Many pages of newsprint and hundreds of blog inches have been devoted this week to declaring how much of a "daring choice" Rufus Norris is to succeed Nicholas Hytner as the National Theatre'…
With every Cabinet reshuffle it's a while before new incumbents make their mark. And so it is in the world of dance. Big changes at the top " the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, and S…
In keeping with Nicholas Hytner's refusal to play safe with the musical genre, this collaboration between Tori Amos and the dramatist Samuel Adamson " brilliantly staged by Marianne Elliott …
Le Corsaire is a statement of intent for Tamara Rojo, the first full-length production she commissioned as director of English National Ballet. It's also the first time this 19th-century war…
The trial of the Bolshoi Ballet acid attack is set to begin in Russia, and is expected to shed light on the infighting and fraught politics of the world-renowned dance troupe.
What is it? David Tennant and director Gregory Doran reunite at the Royal Shakespeare Company, with Tennant as the eponymous, capricious king.
They covered themselves in glory five years ago with Hamlet; now David Tennant and Gregory Doran join forces again for this lucid and gripping account of Richard II. Having played the most i…
They covered themselves in glory five years ago with Hamlet; now David Tennant and Gregory Doran join forces again for this lucid and gripping account of Richard II. Having played the most i…
Simba could not wait to be crowned king, and now he reigns supreme over Broadway.
Solzhenitsyn's play draws on his hellish experience of eight years in the gulags from 1945 and it hasn't been seen in London for some three decades. Given that it has over fifty characters a…
The daunting task of filling the shoes of National Theatre director Sir Nicholas Hytner has been handed to Rufus Norris, prompting cheers from inside and outside the institution.
The daunting task of filling the shoes of National Theatre director Sir Nicholas Hytner has been handed to Rufus Norris, prompting cheers from inside and outside the institution.
The daunting task of filling the shoes of National Theatre director Sir Nicholas Hytner has been handed to Rufus Norris, prompting cheers from inside and outside the institution.
Rufus Norris has been named the new director of the National Theatre.
Candidates for the British stage's most influential role are jostling for position after it emerged that Sir Kenneth Branagh has been approached to become the next artistic director of the N…
What is it? A new musical from singer-songwriter Tori Amos, a dark coming-of-age fairytale, finally arrives at the National Theatre. Samuel Adamson provides the libretto; Marianne Elliott di…
What is it? Handel's witty comic opera, about scheming and jostling for the Roman throne. Staged by English Touring Opera, it's directed by James Conway and conducted by Jonathan Peter Kenny…