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At odds with its basking height-of- summer premiere, the National Theatre of Scotland's stage adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's cult supernatural coming-of-age novel " later adapted for …
An evening spent inhabiting Harold Pinter's tensely disconcerting world is never going to be a sunlit stroll through the daisies.
I wrote the play Hard Feelings " which will be revived tonight by Defibrillator Theatre at the Finborough " in early 1982, in the aftermath of the previous year's riots which had torn a grea…
Coppélia, one of the bounciest of 19th-century ballet classics, is a good vehicle for emerging ballerinas. In Birmingham Royal Ballet's revival, 23-year-old soloist Maureya Lebowitz made a …
Andrew Lloyd Webber missed last night's Tony Awards celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway due to ill health.
A friend of mine recently got married in Las Vegas and celebrated by going to see Rod Stewart in concert there. He was enchanted by the whole glitzy glamour of the experience, and yet he's a…
Feelgood musical Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, won six 2013 Tony Awards, including best musical, best score and best leading man.
Feelgood musical Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, won six 2013 Tony Awards, including best musical, best score and best leading man.
Feelgood musical Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, won six 2013 Tony Awards, including best musical, best score and best leading man.
Feelgood musical Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, won six 2013 Tony Awards, including best musical, best score and best leading man.
Feelgood musical Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, won six 2013 Tony Awards today, including best musical, best score and best leading man.
Charting the life of a would-be free spirit, Nina, and her menfolk through the decades, Eugene O'Neill's inter-war saga Strange Interlude isn't often staged. Uncut, it can last five hours. S…
Five years from now, popular cinema may have shaken off its infatuation with 3D, but for the moment, the movers and shakers are in thrall to its peculiar approximation of the way the eye see…
I found myself wondering the other day whether the theatrical aside is an essentially comic device. The occasion was the first night of Simon Godwin's new production of Strange Interlude at …
One of the showpiece productions of the forthcoming Royal Opera season is in turmoil after artistic differences saw the Royal Ballet pull out of Les Vêpres Siciliennes just months before …
In 2008, Steve Wright, a forklift truck driver dubbed the "Suffolk strangler", was jailed for life for murdering five women who worked as prostitutes in Ipswich.
In 2008, Steve Wright, a forklift truck driver dubbed the "Suffolk strangler", was jailed for life for murdering five women who worked as prostitutes in Ipswich.
An unnerving frisson runs through the nimble wit, toughness and pressing "now-ness" of New Yorker Ayad Akhtar's new play.
Take That star Gary Barlow is heading to the West End to co-write a new musical based on the Johnny Depp film Finding Neverland.
Strindberg's The Dance of Death (1900) is a play in two parts. Although Laurence Olivier and Geraldine McEwan played the full saga at the National Theatre in 1966, you only usually see Part …
At the end of the new hit play on Broadway, a Chekhov spoof called Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, David Hyde Pierce as a modern Vanya in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, delivers a comic ti…
Roll up for a whole new concept of a cookery show with a special menu of fried murderer, stoned adulteress, tortured terrorist and, the ever popular old favourite, the slaughter of the innoc…
Andy Warhol's set for RainForest " a group of silver helium pillows, suspended in the air or floating free " started out as an art installation.
At the end of the new hit play on Broadway, a Chekhov spoof called Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, David Hyde Pierce as a modern Vanya in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, delivers a comic ti…
Creators of the new West End stage version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory have given their first glimpse of the production.