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…
It's 10 years " if you exclude his rendering of the "isle is full of noises" speech from The Tempest at the Olympics opening ceremony " since Kenneth Branagh trod the boards in Shakespeare. …
Playwright and composer Tim Firth has emerged as inheritor of a British musical tradition laid down by Lionel Bart and Willy Russell. Director Daniel Evans meanwhile, is being seriously talk…
The bright lights of New York's theatreland will go out tonight in honour of The Sopranos star James Gandolfini who died a week ago aged 51.
The launch of the new family West End production Charlie And The Chocolate Factory falls short of real magic, according to mixed opening night reviews.
Who, in their right mind, would choose to be an Oompa-Loompa - part of what is effectively a sweet-toothed slave-labour force? Still, they are full of vim, ingeniously created (a hectic hybr…
Who, in their right mind, would choose to be an Oompa-Loompa? They are, after all, effectively a sweet-toothed slave-labour force. Still, they are full of vim, ingeniously created (a hectic …
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes will treat audiences to a musical feast when his new stage version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory opens in the West End tonight.
The most successful films of British director Joe Wright announce themselves with a certain cinematic swish, all period charm and romantic froth, whether it be the muddy skirts and country b…
Pushing the envelope. It's a strange phrase, is it not? It appears to have crept into general use in the late 1970s, having originated in the field of maths, where the "envelope" describes "…
Amovie is about to be shot, and some ordinary folks will get to star in it, if they make the grade. Yes, in Martin McDonagh's revived 1990s tragicomedy The Cripple of Inishmaan " set on Galw…
What are we talking about? The troubled Russian company comes to London " on the 50th anniversary of its first visit " with a season of five works: Swan Lake, La Bayadère, The Sleeping Beau…
'Oh, for a muse of fire that would ascend, the brightest heaven of invention…" So begins William Shakespeare's Henry V; but it was a wish that would come back to haunt the playwright with …
After the National Theatre's hit Goldoni update, One Man, Two Guvnors, the RSC and Sean Foley have relocated Thomas Middleton's city satire to a mid-1950s Soho of criminality, pervy repressi…
Experience Shakespeare's powerful story of murder and revenge, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The best play to date about the tragicomic compromises and ignominious ironies of coalition politics is Michael Frayn's Democracy (2003) about the unstable, ill-natured, ideologically bizarr…
Kim Brandstrup's new Ceremony of Innocence is the highlight of the Aldeburgh Festival's danced celebration of composer Benjamin Britten. Set to the Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, it …
The publisher of a national newspaper has agreed to pay "substantial" damages to a psychic after an article suggested she had "perpetrated a scam" on a theatre audience, a High Court judge w…
He has already wowed Broadway and sold Gavin and Stacey to Fox. Now James Corden is bidding to become a star of the American small screen too.
Taking the lead from her younger brother, Jake, Maggie Gyllenhaal will star in a hit of the London stage in New York next year.
Miss Saigon, the musical that brought a real helicopter onto the West End stage, is descending on London again.
The summer belongs to Conor McPherson at the Donmar Warehouse. Hard on the heels of Josie Rourke's pitch-perfect revival of his most acclaimed play The Weir, the Irish dramatist now directs …
'Try to look as if nothing has happened, and when you analyse it, nothing much has.' Those words spoken by Patricia Hodge's character in Trevor Nunn's production of Noël Coward's Relative…
It may not quite recreate the atmosphere of a full West End production, but at least fans won't have to make a coach trip to London to hear the top stage talent. A radio station playing excl…
You have to hand it to Daniel Radcliffe. Whether baring his all in the West End and on Broadway in Equus, or winning the New York Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Music…