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There has never been a shortage of stage and film adaptations of A Tale of Two Cities. The unique selling point of this production is that it is the professional premiere of a version of Dic…
With heart-warming tales of talent-spotting and a starry cast that ranged from Sergei Polunin to Imelda Staunton, the gala in aid of the Yorkshire Ballet Summer School came out as a cheerful…
Arguably Ian Rankin's pre-existing fame as a crime novelist of some note is what holds his first play, written in collaboration with Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson, back the most. For…
If anyone can advise today's politicians how to avoid a career-shattering scandal, it is Mandy Rice-Davies. "As soon as a rumour starts going, just stand up and say 'Mea Culpa'," cautions th…
If anyone can advise today's politicians how to avoid a career-shattering scandal, it is Mandy Rice-Davies. "As soon as a rumour starts going, just stand up and say 'Mea Culpa'," cautions th…
If anyone can advise today's politicians how to avoid a career-shattering scandal, it is Mandy Rice-Davies. "As soon as a rumour starts going, just stand up and say 'Mea Culpa'," cautions th…
Opening Tuesday at London's Finborough is Black Jesus, activist playwright Anders Lustgarten's imagining of Zimbabwe's political future, directed by David Mercatali (to 26 Oct).
Trevor Nunn revisits Joanna Murray-Smith's caustic stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's dissection of matrimony in a superlatively well-acted production, starring Mark Bazeley and Olivia Wil…
X-Files star Gillian Anderson is returning to the London stage to play Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
The hospital bedside of your cancer-ridden husband of forty years is perhaps not the most tactful place to be flipping through glossy magazines in search of ideas for home redecoration. But …
In that seemingly endless hinterland south of Croydon and north of Brighton lies Purley, a fully-detached commuter nirvana whose very name has become a byword for suburban contentment. Despi…
The role of Arturo Ui calls for bravura, 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…
The Broadway production of Betrayal starring real-life couple Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall finally opens on Tuesday night.
Bridget Christie won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award this year for her feminist stand-up show which includes a long routine about her sneaking into newsagents and supermarkets and throwi…
The days of dressing up for the theatre and enjoying an undisturbed night of entertainment are over, according to a new report.
It's said that Scandinavian divorce rates doubled in the year after Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From A Marriage was transmitted in its original form, as a mini-series, on Swedish television in 1…
There's the atmosphere of an end-of-term romp at The Lightning Child which is both the last show in the Globe Season of Plenty and the venue's first attempt at a musical. Playwright Che Walk…
You needed stamina for this one: two hours-plus without an interval, standing in the open air at an ex-military barracks in Derry-Londonderry, as rain clouds threatened and a stiffening bree…
Sunday A night off! I hot-foot it to Soho Theatre to catch the last night of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman show Fleabag. It's filthy and brilliant.
We say: Michael Grandage sets Shakespeare's magical comedy in the 1960s, with Sheridan Smith as fairy queen Titania and David Walliams as her donkey-headed lover, Bottom.
What is it? The premiere of the late Clive Exton's 2005 foul-mouthed comedy about a family of hapless Essex criminals, starring Lee Evans, Sheila Hancock, and Keeley Hawes.
I run my own acting agency for short people We have more than 100 short actors on our books at Willow Management, though I run it slightly better than the version of me that I play in [BBC s…
West London's Lyric Hammersmith is holding a Secret Theatre season while its building is redeveloped, using the upheaval as a chance to explore new ways of working. First up are two classic …
I run my own acting agency for short people We have more than 100 short actors on our books at Willow Management, though I run it slightly better than the version of me that I play in [BBC s…
The writer Chris Hannan and director Dominic Hill (the Citizens' artistic director) make staging Dostoyevsky's hefty meditation on the causes of murder look easy.
