For their first-ever exercise in creating a show for children, the renowned Theatre Complicite has chosen to present a piece based on the trilogy of best-selling books by Zizou Corder (aka L…
When the interval arrived during The Machine I realised I had been so engrossed by the play that I had forgotten to take a single note during the first half. A play about a chess match betwe…
One of the little touches of genius about this year's Manchester International Festival has been the imaginative choice of venues with which the artistic director Alex Poots has given extra …
The head of a leading charity for people affected by eating disorders has called for stricter regulations in dance schools over concerns that ballet dancers are not given enough support at a…
Achaise longue stretches, like a languorous temptation, across the middle of Reverend James Morrell's drawing room. In Candida " George Bernard Shaw's rarely staged yet surprisingly gripping…
Sergei Polunin has a reputation to live down, and another to live up to. After the spectacular no-show of the young Ukrainian at his last major London engagement (when he went Awol days befo…
The new comedy from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg is The World's End, a genre-mashing midlife-crisis comedy about a pub crawl which is rudely interrupted by an invasion of body-snatching alien…
It is said to be bad luck to say the name of "the Scottish Play" aloud. And perhaps an unfortunate actor did just that while playing opposite Sir Kenneth Branagh in his acclaimed production …
Kenneth Branagh delivers his first live Shakespeare performance in 11 years in a deconsecrated Victorian church as part of the Manchester International Festival.
Faced with the prospect of an American play about a drama therapy group, even the least cynical soul might brace himself or herself for grating theatrical in-jokes or an icky re-tread of A C…
Graham Linehan's adaptation of this classic 1955 Ealing comedy rightly won rave reviews when it opened at the Gielgud Theatre in 2011. Sean Foley's production is back in the West End now wit…
Past the wood-panelled wall and its morbid zoo of animal skulls, through the trailer park and around the corner into a shop filled with a hundred flying stetsons and " is that a warthog? "Ye…
National service ended fifty years ago in this country but, around the world, young men and women are still conscripted into their country's armed forces.
The Russian government has replaced the head of the Bolshoi Theatre, six months after a hit man hired by one of its dancers threw acid in the face of the company's artistic director.
The Russian government has replaced the head of the Bolshoi Theatre, six months after a hit man hired by one of its dancers threw acid in the face of the company's artistic director.
The Russian government has replaced the head of the Bolshoi Theatre, six months after a hit man hired by one of its dancers threw acid in the face of the company's artistic director.
The Russian government has replaced the head of the Bolshoi Theatre, six months after a hit man hired by one of its dancers threw acid in the face of the company's artistic director.
Abi Morgan, the writer of The Iron Lady, is to make her bow at the Royal Court Theatre with the extraordinary true story of a woman who drew up a contract agreeing to be the mistress of a we…
Abi Morgan, the writer of The Iron Lady, is to make her bow at the Royal Court Theatre with the extraordinary true story of a woman who drew up a contract agreeing to be the mistress of a we…
Abi Morgan, the writer of The Iron Lady, is to make her bow at the Royal Court Theatre with the extraordinary true story of a woman who drew up a contract agreeing to be the mistress of a we…
Eve Best made her first appearance at Shakespeare's Globe as Lady Macbeth some twelve years ago in a studiedly abstract, black-tie production that won few fans. Â
Eve Best made her first appearance at Shakespeare's Globe as Lady Macbeth some twelve years ago in a studiedly abstract, black-tie production that won few fans. Â
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Turn, hellhound, turn! So cries Macduff in the climactic battle scene of Macbeth, mustering all his strength to slay Shakespeare's eponymous tyrant and deliver Scotland from the forces of ev…
Turn, hellhound, turn! So cries Macduff in the climactic battle scene of Macbeth, mustering all his strength to slay Shakespeare's eponymous tyrant and deliver Scotland from the forces of ev…