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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…
It would help if you read Daniil Kharms' short story before you go to see The Old Woman which opened this year's biennial Manchester International Festival. It would help. But not a lot.
A film producer who claimed to be the "the seventh Python" won a royalty battle with the comedy team yesterday " but said his victory was tinged with sadness.
A film producer embroiled in a High Court battle with the surviving members of Monty Python over hit musical Spamalot has said his victory today was tinged with sadness.
A film producer today won a High Court royalty fight with the Monty Python comedy team - but he said his victory was tinged with sadness.
Coupling star Ben Miles has been cast as Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company's double bill of Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
Back in London for the first time in 30 years, Boston Ballet look fresh, fast and strong. Balanchine's Serenade, the first work on the company's opening night, is both lyrical and democratic…
West End transfers from Chichester have become practically a matter of course during Jonathan Church's remarkably rich and fertile regime there and the latest production to make the leap fro…
As far as it is possible for us mere mortals to tell, Derren Brown only made one slip tonight. It came right at the end of the evening and it was a literal one, caused by a piece of paper di…
Of all Coward's plays, Private Lives remains the most pristine, elegant example of his art. It is deceptively simple. "Minimal as an art deco curve," wrote John Lahr of The New Yorker, "Priv…
"Weekly rep" in Sloane Square? The idea might seem about as likely as a season of drama based on strict Dogme principles in Frinton-on-Sea.
Of all Coward's plays, Private Lives remains the most pristine, elegant example of his art. It is deceptively simple. "Minimal as an art deco curve," wrote John Lahr of The New Yorker, "Priv…
Thornton Wilder won the second of his three Pulitzer Prizes for Our Town in 1938 and the play has been performed somewhere in the United States every night since.
A Cirque du Soleil performer plummeted 50ft to her death, after slipping during a performance of Ka in Las Vegas.
A Cirque du Soleil performer plummeted 50ft to her death, after slipping during a performance of Ka in Las Vegas.
A Cirque du Soleil performer plummeted 50ft to her death, after slipping during a performance of Ka in Las Vegas.
What could possibly be more curious than a dead dog, skewered by a garden fork? How about the peculiar case of the Bond boffin Q trying to stop Sherlock Holmes's arch enemy Moriarty from wip…
What are we talking about? The yearly Edinburgh Festival showcasing opera, music, dance, theatre, visual arts, talks and workshops. Not the Fringe Festival.
A country churchyard lush with meadow flowers, a coop of happy hens nearby …. The seductive location is typical of where The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company nightly strikes its stage. Each…
Would Roald Dahl have been such a big deal without his illustrator Quentin Blake? The question nagged silently during years of reading aloud stories often clumsy, even cruel. And here is Bla…
An all-star team of dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, actor Willem Dafoe and pioneering director Robert Wilson create a new production for the Manchester International Festival.
Daisy (superb Alice Sykes) is nearly sixteen and might have expected to be tumbling through the teenage rites of passage with her peers " from studying for mock-GCSEs to trying to sneak into…
Buying a ticket for a named play is so 2012. The Lyric Hammersmith has announced an entire season of plays in which neither the play nor its writer will be named, while St James Theatre is s…
He has left Homeland but David Harewood is not quitting America just yet. The British actor, who played CIA chief David Estes in two series of the US television series, will next appear as O…
You can't accuse Lenny Henry of lacking intrepidity. Back in 2009, he dived in at the deep end as a classical actor in the titanic role of Othello and pulled off the extraordinary feat of pe…
