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It was horrifying enough on the big screen, but now fans of erotic thriller Fatal Attraction will be able to see the infamous bunny boiling scene in person.
Admirers of the chemistry between Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy can scarcely have dreamt that the next time they saw this pair on stage it would be as Beatrice …
Marcus du Sautoy is famous for bringing maths to the masses. As well as his lively BBC shows, the Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University has helped out behind…
They were at the forefront of a generation of young female playwrights, now Lucy Kirkwood and Polly Stenham (right) are graduating to television.
Orlando Bloom has earned mixed reviews for his Broadway debut in a new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
The Brighton Hippodrome, the Grade II* listed theatre, is among the 48 venues that are at real risk of being demolished or are in critical physical condition.
The Olivier Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear has pulled off the neat trick of being in two places at once in London's early autumn theatre season.
Luke Treadaway is the National Theatre's million-dollar man. Now 28, in the last six years he has taken the lead in two of the most successful shows in the theatre's history. In 2007, he was…
Luke Treadaway is the National Theatre's million-dollar man. Now 28, in the last six years he has taken the lead in two of the most successful shows in the theatre's history. In 2007, he was…
Jasmin Vardimon's Justitia revolves around a murder trial " literally revolves, as Merle Hensel's set rotates to take us from court room to crime scene. With each turn, the show plays out a …
Waiting for the bus can be pretty tedious. But a young woman from Eastleigh who decided to pass the time on the pavement by tapping her feet, swaying her hips and dancing to herself can have…
They've been presented, in recent years, as everything from a bevy of bolshy St. Trinian's types in tutus and Doc Martens to a gang of faintly menacing Indian street performers. Now, in his …
Clive Exton is best known for scripting such well-loved TV series as Jeeves and Wooster and Poirot
Clive Exton is best known for scripting such well-loved TV series as Jeeves and Wooster and Poirot
Actor Ben Miller is to star in a new West End production ridiculing the Parliamentary expenses scandal which led to a number of MPs being jailed.
With his male-model good looks and sparkly smile, Max Irons (the womanising King Edward in the TV adaptation of The White Lady) is natural casting as a golden boy. In this UK premiere of Bea…
What is it? A new play by Dennis Kelly (Matilda the Musical), directed by incoming Royal Court head, Vicky Featherstone. A dark morality tale, it relates the life of Gorge (Tom Brooke) as he…
It's a delight to discover that playwright Rachel De-lahay speaks in the same sparky, urban-inflected way as her characters. "Amazing" is a word that recurs frequently in her conversation an…
Directed with mordant verve by Lyndsey Turner, Mark Ravenhill's witty, astringent response to Voltaire's 1759 novella suggests that optimism as a form of denial may have modern equivalents i…
The known quantity is a factor that London theatre has a depressing habit of unduly relying upon. Think of all those screen-to-stage adaptations that angle to clean up at the box office …
For her first full scale production as artistic director of the Royal Court, Vicky Featherstone has chosen to direct The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas " a twisted, darkly witty moralit…
Susannah Fielding's debut as a professional actress was a baptism of fire. Six months before appearing at the National Theatre, she was an usher there, selling ice-creams in the foyer and sn…
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to put on three Jacobean plays with the "some of the greatest parts ever written for women" to raise the question of gender inequality on the British stage a…
In Joseph Conrad's great 1907 novel, there's a botched attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. One of the central ironies of the book is that the atrocity is instigated not by the anar…
The return of Miss Saigon to the London stage prompted the largest single day of sales in West End history on Monday.
