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You have to admire the producing chutzpah of Shakespeare's Globe. In the same week that they announced a 2-year tour of Hamlet that will take in every country on earth (all 205 of them), the…
I was hooked on ballet from an early age I was five, watching a class all dressed in pale-pink led by a thin, beautiful teacher dressed in burgundy. She was so different from the other teach…
Does it behove an opera house to host productions that use taped music? It's not hard to guess how it happens. The venue needs revenue, and the visiting company " perhaps a new venture " sim…
Who can you trust? Leopold II, King of the Belgians, claimed he had intended to benefit Central Africa's tribes. In truth, he was a land-grabbing colonialist who, as the de facto sovereign o…
The Old Vic Tunnels " the cult performance space " could be turned into a skateboard park after the theatre from which it took its name withdrew funding.
Fire performer, stilt-walker, rigger and, foremost an aerialist renowned for the art of counterweighting " the process of lifting people or objects by using a pulley system or their body wei…
Back in the West End, Graham Linehan's inspired adaptation of the Ealing comedy converts William Rose's original screenplay into uproarious farce, fizzing with fresh gags.
It's time for Billy Elliot to leave the stage. A dearth of female ballerinas is causing a crisis in the dance world, Carlos Acosta, acclaimed as the greatest performer of his generation, has…
It's time for Billy Elliot to leave the stage. A dearth of female ballerinas is causing a crisis in the dance world, Carlos Acosta, acclaimed as the greatest performer of his generation, has…
Think you know Aesop's fables? Think again. Sally Cookson's production of the famous tales presents a happy-camper tortoise opposite a onesie-sporting hare, a grumpy teenage boy who cries wo…
Breasts, bingo and gay vicars are to provide the crucial background noise to a new drama about hacking, its author has revealed.
Daytona is a new work by the actor-turned-playwright Oliver Cotton and is only the third production to appear so far at the shiny new Park Theatre, which opened in May this year but is alrea…
For their first big London show in six years, Punchdrunk, the pioneering immersive theatre company, have commandeered a cavernous former Royal Mail sorting office next door to Paddington Sta…
It's six years since we last saw him on stage giving an award-winning portrayal of Othello at the Donmar Warehouse. Now Chiwetel Ejiofor is back and in magnificent form as Patrice Lumumba, t…
I wouldn't be surprised if a T-shirt that came through the letterbox tucked alongside the new Jack Reacher novel, Never Go Back (out next month), by Lee Child (pictured), were to become a co…
The launch of the British Film Institute's new season, Gothic, was accompanied by a fabulously eerie visitation " Chrisopher Lee's Dracula cloak, donned for the occasion by a delighted press…
Victoria Barnsley (pictured), the charismatic outgoing CEO of HarperCollins (UK) said she didn't want the authors' party last week to be turned into her impromptu leaving party for her after…
Some shows just seem to be doomed. On opening night, the Russian Seasons of XXI Century dropped one production due to injury, then added an unscheduled interval while they tried to fix the l…
Some shows just seem to be doomed. On opening night, the Russian Seasons of XXI Century dropped one production due to injury, then added an unscheduled interval while they tried to fix the l…
Maureen Lipman has described Culture Secretary Maria Miller as a "nightmare" and complained that most recent arts ministers know nothing about art.
Shakespeare's Globe is set to embark on a "completely unprecedented theatrical adventure" as it seeks to mark the 450th anniversary of the Bard's birth by taking Hamlet to every country in t…
A story about rape, incest, domestic violence and racist abuse is an unlikely recipe for a musical, yet a Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple…
A story about rape, incest, domestic violence and racist abuse is an unlikely recipe for a musical, yet a Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple…
A story about rape, incest, domestic violence and racist abuse is an unlikely recipe for a musical, yet a Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple…
John Zorn is the prodigious exemplar of downtown New York's avant-garde. He's the most uncategorisable of the musicians who made their way during the city's economically bankrupt, artistical…
