"Pardon me, while I have a strange interlude," said Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers, initiating one of very few jokes ever made in the cinema about the late-1920s experimental American theat…
In debates about Scottish independence a theory is regularly put forward that Scotland more resembles a Scandinavian country than an Anglo-Saxon one. The political implications of this aren'…
Jeeves and Wooster are heading for the stage, with the adventures of P G Wodehouse's most famous comic creations being adapted into a West End play for the first time.
Forget Billy Elliot the musical and remember Billy Liar, the novel by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, template for all northern working-class, aspirational escape stories in the 1960s, the…
Jeeves and Wooster are heading to the West End stage, with the adventures of P G Wodehouse's most famous comic creations being adapted into a play for the first time.
Sunday night at the London Palladium used to be hosted by Bruce Forsyth or Jimmy Tarbuck. This Sunday, and for one night only, the great Al Pacino trod, or rather, slid across, the hallowed …
Sunday night at the London Palladium used to be hosted by Bruce Forsyth or Jimmy Tarbuck. This Sunday, and for one night only, the great Al Pacino trod, or rather, slid across, the hallowed …
Middle-class problems: Provenance
A black woman has accused a rich white guy of raping her in a hotel room. He's asking a law firm, comprised of one white and one black man, Lawson and Brown, to represent him. Add into the e…
Keep ploughing the same furrow. That's what artists tend do in a crowded field, and what our two best-known dance-makers, Wayne McGregor and Akram Khan, have been doing in different ways for…
What are we talking about? The Manchester International Festival " the city's fourth biennial event, combining new art, film, music, theatre, dance, talks, and installations.
The programme for the recent and excellent Royal Opera production of Verdi's Nabucco must have left a few people at Covent Garden with red faces. An essay on exile, one of the themes of the …
Out of ideas for a dinner party? Why not serve up a dish made out of the heads of two children stewed in their own blood encased in a pie-crust of their ground down bones? Such is the notori…
Robert Sean Leonard gives a quiet, shadowy but highly effective performance as Atticus Finch, the Alabama lawyer who makes a stand against the rape and racism that disfigure a small town in …
Proving that she's as good an essayist as she is brilliant an actress, Michelle Terry discusses the role of Hippolyta, Theseus' bride and Amazonian queen, in the programme, suggesting that h…
Audiences will be reminded to leave their mobile phones on at a new play at Pulse Fringe Festival in Ipswich on Monday.
Weeks after the dramatic escape of three kidnap victims in Cleveland, Ohio a new one-woman show set in a basement will put the harrowing story of a young, female abductee on stage. Inside, w…
This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be bigger than ever before, with a record 2,871 shows.
Sitting awkwardly at the centre of David Mamet's eighty-minute play about race called Race is a four-letter word about sex.
Akram Khan's new iTMOi (in the mind of Igor) starts with a roar, a bellowing shout that makes the audience jump. The confrontation goes with the theme. iTMOi marks the centenary of The Rite …
Lucy Kirkwood has taken her title from a coinage in Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money and the mystery at the centre of her play from one of the most evocative photographs of the last cent…
To the Broadway and Hollywood establishments, it was as though Edward Albee had let it be known that he had joined the National Rifle Association or that Tony (Angels in America) Kushner had…
There's an unnerving frisson of electricity running through this new American play by New Yorker Ayad Akhtar. Disgraced won last year's Pulitzer prize for drama, not usually a signal of qual…
The Sussex company Park Bench Dance Theatre's show opens with two barefoot, smartly dressed women shuffling on to a empty stage with a dining table. They disappear again and return with some…
Like its heroine, the new collaboration between choreographer Wayne McGregor and author Audrey Niffenegger is neither one thing nor the other. Caught between worlds, the ballet has striking …