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The new Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, north London, is a spanking new five-star neighbourhood theatre opening with a three-star play about girls in a 1920s Chicago watch-making factory who …
Stars were gripped by Great Gatsby-mania last night as they flocked to the London premiere of a new ballet based on the in vogue Jazz Age tale.
Thomas Eccleshare's first play won the 2011 Verity Bargate award, so named in honour of the Soho's founding co-director, and it arrives in London from a season at the High Tide Festival in H…
A tale of corruption, greed and the responsibility of the press, states the Young Vic's publicity, and you can't say fairer than that. Ibsen's perennially pertinent dissection of spa town fa…
No play currently in London has made a more powerful impact than Mies Julie. But as the production was being bedecked with five-star reviews for supercharging Strindberg's 19th-century drama…
No play currently in London has made a more powerful impact than Mies Julie. But as the production was being bedecked with five-star reviews for supercharging Strindberg's 19th-century drama…
The Suffolk town of Halesworth might look idyllic but don't be fooled, there's darkness lurking behind the half-timbered facades. This year's High Tide festival of new writing tackles everyt…
Daniel Kitson's new show is a reflection on reality, memory and our sense of self. Hardly wall-to-wall giggles, you might think, but this publicity-shy, TV-shunning, Perrier Award-winning co…
As a study in the personal trials and tribulations of life in the office, John Van Druten's 1931 play is a little closer in style and banality to Ricky Gervais than to the advertising agency…
We used to have angels on our shoulders, according to the old morality plays. There would be a bad one whispering devilish suggestions in our left ear while a good one " on the right side " …
The reason fairy stories have endured in the collective consciousness is not just that successive generations have been offered them as childhood fare. It's that they give a manageable shape…
Everything is weird about Chekhov's first play, best known as Platonov, and here given a tremendous, roistering, sex-and-vodka update by Polish director Helena Kaut-Howson that suggests life…
What a moment it must have been when Dame Helen Mirren walked
into the street in the interval of the West End production of The
Audience in which she plays the Queen and reprimanded a bunch …
CULTURE CLASH: LONG-RUNNING MUSICALS
The world-famous dancer and former star of the Royal Ballet, Sylvie Guillem, has strongly criticised Britain's biggest dance company, and revealed her dislike of its recently departed direct…
The Menier Chocolate Factory's superlative Sondheim revival is all the more astonishing in that it marks the directing debut of singer/actress Maria Friedman.
At 48 she sells out dance houses around the world. On stage she is simply mesmerising. It is not only her long legs, which seem to stop only just before her mane of red hair. It is her uniqu…
Simon Russell Beale has transformed himself into a manic version of Ronnie Barker in this merciless, very funny revival of Harold Pinter's second major stage play, one he wrote and discarded…
Warnings of strobes and loud bangs are commonplace at the theatre. Now lily-livered audiences are being protected from trailers too.
A controversial staging of Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser set in a concentration camp during the Holocaust has been cancelled after it proved so shocking some audience-members were force…
Turning Hansel and Gretel into a ballet, Liam Scarlett is determined to be very, very dark. Updated to the 1950s, his version of the fairy tale features domestic violence, a paedophile witch…
A controversial staging of Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser set in a concentration camp during the Holocaust has been cancelled after it proved so shocking some audience-members were force…
When Peter Nichols's searing play of a modern marriage hit with a disruptive blast of sexual infidelity opened in 1981, one critic recounted a joke about Moses coming down from Sinai with th…
Some Like It Hip Hop sails back into the West End on wave after wave of brilliant dancing. ZooNation's irresistible comedy is a whirlwind of hip hop dance, bright storytelling and boundless …
Harold Pinter didn't think much of his second play initially. "It was heavily satirical and quite useless," he wrote later. "I never began to like any of the characters, they really didn't l…
