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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…
Dame Helen Mirren has admitted being "more Duke of Edinburgh than the Queen" when she scolded a group of street drummers outside a London theatre.
When he played Falstaff at the Globe, and the weather turned nasty, Roger Allam sidestepped nimbly into a bit of King Lear ("Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks…you cataracts and hurricanoe…
Dame Helen Mirren "effed and blinded" at a group of drummers playing outside the West End's Gielgud Theatre.
As Breakin' Convention reaches its tenth birthday, it celebrates generations of hip hop dance. The youngest performers on stage on Sunday night were B-Girls Eddie and Terra, who are nine and…
Dame Helen Mirren "effed and blinded" at a group of drummers playing outside the West End's Gielgud Theatre.
Dame Helen Mirren "effed and blinded" at a group of drummers playing outside the West End's Gielgud Theatre.
Have the galloping, whinnying heroes of War Horse inspired a new generation of theatre-makers? It would seem so. The Girl with No Heart from Sparkle and Dark, a promising young company which…
You do not go to meet Simon Russell Beale without the accompaniment of a certain musical fanfare. It's not audible, this fanfare, you can't hear it in the air around you, but it's neverthele…
I struggled for 10 years as a jobbing actor Dad [the actor Tom Conti] was always very helpful. He said acting was about being real. It's a simple view, but it's difficult if you are not gett…
History rarely supplies plots for full-evening ballets, and with good reason. Dance tends to be strong on feeling, weak on facts. As George Balanchine once drolly observed, ballet has no way…
Our little life may be rounded with a sleep, as Shakespeare wrote poetically, but no one's gonna be nodding off during The Pajama Game. As the factory whistle shrills at the start of Ric…
Despite a sombre beginning, Maria Aberg's production establishes itself as the most joyous " and truly ensemble " take on this lovely but tricky comedy in more than 20 years.
In Gravity of Center, RUBBERBANDance Group literally pushes its dancers to the brink. Early on, the five dancers scurry up to the front of the stage, where one of them lurches out, starting …
Battersea Arts Centre has a fine track record for picking out fresh talents, nurturing them and then letting them bloom in the nooks and crannies of its magnificent building. Jerry Springer …
Forget Viva Forever!, Jennifer Saunders' Spice Girls musical which is to close after just six months, here are some of the most embarrassing theatrical flops the other side of the pond.
It was called, optimistically, Viva Forever! But six months of scathing reviews and audience indifference has forced the producers to call time on the Spice Girls musical which is to close, …
It was called, optimistically, Viva Forever! But six months of scathing reviews and audience indifference has forced the producers to call time on the Spice Girls musical which is to close, …
It's getting to be a habit for the Menier Chocolate Factory to transfer their acclaimed Sondheim revivals from the quirky intimacy of their own venue to the big bad world of the West End.
The critics are unanimous in their praise for A Chorus Line. The 'sizzling and exhilarating' (Independent) show that revolutionised Broadway is now back in the West End for the first time si…
Spice Girls musical Viva Forever! is to close after six months, it has been announced today.
That didn't take long. The first plays about the death of Margaret Thatcher have been commissioned and will be performed at Theatre 503 in Battersea, south London next month.
Zoë Wanamaker is no stranger to playing sorely tried wives. Her populous gallery of women in this fix includes, at one end of the social scale, a gutturally Germanic and frizzy-wigged Pri…
Zoë Wanamaker is no stranger to playing sorely tried wives. Her populous gallery of women in this fix includes, at one end of the social scale, a gutturally Germanic and frizzy-wigged Pri…
In the past year, we have been treated to a slew of high-profile French, South African and home-grown takes on Strindberg's 1888 masterpiece. But it would be a shame if theatregoers felt too…
