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 …
Amir had a Muslim surname, but has changed it to Kapoor. He has also fudged whether his parents came from Pakistan or India and spurned his mother's virulent anti-Semitism. Now a dapper New …
What are we talking about? A new show from immersive, site-specific theatre company Punchdrunk. It's a promenade performance through a large building next to Paddington station, which they p…
"But must my sons be slaughtered in the streets for valiant doings in their country's cause?" asks Titus Andronicus, mourning a stage full of corpses as prelude to three hours of gratuit…
The room is dominated by a four-poster bed. Its velvet covering glows richly red under the light. In a few moments a young man will be interrupted by his sister, 19-year-old Anne Boleyn.
The Sherlock Holmes franchise has been assiduously exploited on the written page, on stage, cinema and TV ever since A Study in Scarlet announced the arrival of the world's greatest detectiv…
When The History Boys was first performed at the National Theatre in 2004 the reverential cupping of a sixth former's genitals by an appreciative retirement-age teacher was enough to elicit …
Shameless star David Threlfall has landed a role as the late comic Tommy Cooper - just like that.
Amy Herzog's play has travelled, well, nearly 4,000 miles: it premièred in New York in 2011 " winning its young author an Obie " while in the UK it opened at the Ustinov Studio in Bath, dir…
It was always going to be a tall order bringing Khaled Hosseini's mega-selling 2003 novel about friendship, betrayal and exile to the stage.
The only sin Scout Finch, the eight-year-old narrator of Harper Lee's classic novel, has ever heard her lawyer father denounce was to kill a mockingbird; they do nothing but make music for u…
Audrey Niffenegger, author of the bestselling The Time-Traveler's Wife, has never felt that she was cut out for ballet. "I'm five foot nine, I'm not the most athletic person by any stretch o…
Table Manners is a triple bill inspired by that most genteel of gatherings: the dinner party. But this is no cosy, bring-a-bottle, one-pot-on-the-scrubbed-kitchen-table affair. Rather it is …
One of the main attractions of this year's Brighton Festival is a night-time traipse around Preston Manor, a gorgeous historic house in the suburbs which was bequeathed to the city by the St…
Some stars become famous far beyond their own fields. You don't need to be interested in running to know about Usain Bolt; you don't need to be interested in dance to have heard of French ba…
Amonth of ups and downs with difficulties throughout the production stable. Classic FM turned us into the operatic version of the Sex Pistols by banning us from the station; well, not so muc…
Hollywood imports are no longer required to make a buzz on the West End stage, the head of the Donmar Warehouse said, after unveiling a new Autumn season starring Tom Hiddleston and Jessica …
When Dominic Cooke took over at the Royal Court, he said he wanted to stage more plays about "what it means to be middle class". Now, as the reins of artistic director pass to Vicky Feathers…
Ibsen's timeless story of corruption, pollution and courage is revived in David Harrower's powerful new version at London's Young Vic theatre.
You can't fault Northern Ballet for timing, as its new stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby drops on London the same week as Baz Luhrmann's film remake is shown in Cannes. The first night ev…
In the popular imagination, clean living and Scandinavia are firmly associated. The former goes with the latter's terrain, the snow-capped peaks, the mountain lakes. In the 1980s, Norway was…
The French ballerina Sylvie Guillem is one of dance's biggest stars, known for her headstrong charisma and the extreme lines of her long, elegant limbs.
Simon Russell Beale transforms into a manic version of Ronnie Barker in this merciless, very funny revival of Harold Pinter's second major stage play.
It has become the fashion to make musicals out of apparently untouchable subjects. The Ipswich murders in London Road, female genital mutilation in Book of Mormon and now, Mess, which makes …
When Umbrellas, a lost sketch written by Harold Pinter for a revue at Nottingham Playhouse in 1960, resurfaced two years ago, it sent Giles Croft, the theatre's artistic director, scurrying …