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The ghosts in Ibsen's great play are those patterns of behaviour that we inherit and find it almost impossible to escape.
It's US election night in 2008 and Natasha, a white ex-lawyer who has adopted two Ethiopian children, seizes on this as the ideal opportunity to throw a drinks party in her home for the "ver…
Unless you were part of the counter culture scene of the 80s and 90s you will probably know Chumbawamba best for their infectious hit "Tubthumping" or more likely the sublime moment at the 1…
Nicholas Hytner's refusal to play safe with the musical genre has been one of the glories of his regime at the National. From Jerry Springer: the Opera to the verbatim-based London Road, he …
Roots, the central work in Arnold Wesker's 1950s trilogy, refuses to be rushed and keeps you waiting two and half hours for a turning-point. But the cumulative power of the piece is quietly …
Roddy Doyle's tale of the rise and demise of a young Dublin soul band began life as a novel in 1987 and was turned into a smash-hit movie by Alan Parker in 1991. But, on the face of it, the …
The third play from south London poet/rapper/songwriter/playwright Kate Tempest " who manages to excel in all of those slash-categories " tells the story of two young women in prison, one of…
Anders Lustgarten's powerful new play makes an arresting jump into the near-future. It's set in 2015 in a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe where a Truth and Justice Commission has been instituted to inv…
This was James Brining's debut in the chair as artistic director in Leeds and he was always going to have to opt for something a little more radical than a quick trim and a blow dry to stamp…
We are all going to have to get used to those feelings of intense sorrow and blinding anger which bubble up so readily when confronted with the slaughter of the First World War. Next year ma…
Doctor Who star Matt Smith is to appear in a musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho on the London stage.
Doctor Who star Matt Smith is to appear in a musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho on the London stage.
Doctor Who star Matt Smith is to appear in a musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho on the London stage.
What is it? In Richard Eyre's production of Henrik Ibsen's 1881 play, Lesley Manville stars as the widowed Mrs Alving, confronting the awful truth of her last husband's philandering.
In 2008, David Tennant and Gregory Doran, now the RSC's Artistic Director, worked together on two highly praised Shakespeare productions, Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost.
What is it? Dancer Carlos Acosta turns choreographer in this production, drawing on Marius Petipa's classic ballet version of the Cervantes novel, with music by Ludwig Minkus. He also dances…
"Bond on Broadway? Starring in a play about adultery with his wife? I'm there!" Chris Cohen, a 38-year-old banker living in New York's Upper East Side, might not be the most committed theatr…
The role of Arturo Ui calls for high-definition acting and that's what it gets, in spades, from Henry Goodman in Jonathan Church's splendid production, which began life last year in Chichest…
The ghosts in Ibsen's great play are not wraiths or revenants, but those recurring patterns of behaviour, those dead ideas, customs and orthodoxies that we inherit and find it almost impossi…
Tell me a bit about your character Beatie in Roots.
In Neil Bartlett's staging of Great Expectations at Bristol Old Vic, you hear the story more than watch it. The chains of the convict, the hammering of the blacksmith, the unhinged humming o…
Here's your next ambitious, wide-reaching, politically biting play about China... Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's play inevitably brings to mind Chimerica, Lucy Kirkwood's current smash-hit. It lack…
"Can we get Killian some chips? Please?" It is a Tuesday afternoon, one week until the official opening night of The Commitments in the West End and the show's director, Jamie Lloyd, is stil…
The Queen and Margaret Thatcher are fast becoming as staple a stage double act as Hinge and Bracket. The pair featured in one of the testier confrontations in Peter Morgan's The Audience. No…
Fittingly for a play which is in part about the difficulties of saying what you think, Virgin is a little unclear as to what it thinks it is saying. EV Crowe's play aims to explore how far o…
