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It's the talk of Scotland " but not of the Edinburgh Festival.
The Traverse Theatre's artistic director Orla O'Loughlin commissioned I'm With The Band
from Tim Price, whose previous Salt, Root and Roe at the Donmar was
nominated for an Olivier award. Th…
The Traverse Theatre has always been the powerhouse of new Scottish writing for the stage and, as it enters its 50th year, now under the tutelage of its impressive new artistic director Orla…
When David Beckham turned up at the Royal Wedding, many were baffled by the friendship between the footballer and the future King. What on earth could they have to talk about? Grammar and ha…
If there were an award for "strongest bladder of the year" amongst the annual acting gongs, it's a safe bet that in 2013 it would go to Rob Crouch who has to down worrying quantities of liqu…
The Bolshoi Ballet's Olga Smirnova dances with a moonlit glow. In the "Kingdom of the Shades" scene of La Bayadère, she gives the ghostly heroine a hypnotic beauty. Her bursts of dazzling s…
The latest play by Yael Farber, the South African director and playwright whose show, Mies Julie was a massive hit at Edinburgh last year, is based around the bus gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pa…
Derren Brown makes a living by bamboozling his audience into behaving in extraordinary ways. But the illusionist described the "terrifying" moment a man plunged over a 45ft balcony during on…
The latest play by Yael Farber, the South African director and playwright whose show, Mies Julie was a massive hit at Edinburgh last year, is based around the bus gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pa…
In King Lear, the dispossessed monarch famously runs mad on the heath. However, we're talking urban turf in director Lucy Bailey's new staging for Bath Theatre Royal " turf of the gangland v…
Inspirational ballet star, Cuban cultural ambassador and man of letters (a debut novel, Pig's Foot, will soon follow his best-selling autobiography), Carlos Acosta has grabbed his destiny an…
The mystery at the centre of Lucy Kirkwood's play, transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre after a lauded opening at the Almeida, resides in one of the most evocative photographs of the las…
When an audience-member responded with "disgust" to an unexpected gay kiss at a London theatre this week, one of the play's actors decided to take a stand against homophobia.
Sketch realignment is a feature of this year's Fringe with various groups combining or downsizing, splintering off into solo ventures and so forth. The scene has never been so varied and the…
The last time Phoebe Waller-Bridge appeared on stage, in Jack Thorne's Mydidae, she was naked in a bathroom and going through her ablutions. In her hot new solo show for Edinburgh, she's no …
"One year mair, one year less," rumbles Gordon Brown, thinking back to the homespun sayings of his hometown of Kirkcaldy - this one a somewhat cynical birthday greeting.
The cover, which has been 'The prophets of doom had a field day over Maury Yeston's musical Titanic when it was launched on Broadway in 1997 ahead of James Cameron's blockbuster cinematic we…
The last words of the actor Edmund Kean are alleged to have been "dying is easy, comedy is hard." He passed away (with relative ease) in 1833, more than a century before the outbreak of the …
Richard Eyre turned 70 last March and to say that he shows no sign of a drop in productivity would be a major understatement. By the time he has directed Stephen Ward, Andrew Lloyd Webber's …
Oscar-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has been awarded a major freedom-of-speech prize for his determination to "tell things as they are."
The author is on stage, doing what authors do. He tells stories and talks about himself, with one or two knowing insights into the writing life. Then suddenly " hello, what's going on here? …
The author is on stage, doing what authors do. He tells stories and talks about himself, with one or two knowing insights into the writing life. Then suddenly " hello, what's going on here? …
Arriving for a London summer season, the Bolshoi Ballet is overshadowed by appalling backstage dramas. The great Moscow company has been plagued by factions for years; in January, artistic d…
Alice is here. She took nearly two years, yet still we had last-minute dramas, sets built on the fly and rehearsals following builders from site to site. Lesley Travers, confident of his dea…
No shortage of thought and effort has gone into making this updated working of the Arthurian legend more than just a hot afternoon or evening at the theatre.
