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It's a decision worthy of that tyrannical stickler for the rules, Miss Trunchbull.
Stage hit Matilda: The Musical and a show adapted from a low-budget British movie were the toast of Broadway today as they headed the nominations for the Tony Awards.
The Chichester season (reduced in scale this year as the main theatre is renovated and the big shows are housed in a tent) kicks off in the Minerva Studio now with Richard Eyre's irrepressib…
British theatre is set to take the limelight at America's equivalent of the Olivier Awards today.
One of the creative forces behind the play that swept the Oliviers has fired a broadside at Culture Secretary Maria Miller and said the economic case for theatre was "done and dusted".
The oldest theatre still in its original form in Britain faces closure unless it can raise about £120,000, the latest regional arts centre to run into financial problems since the recessi…
It has been a knockout in Germany, and now Sylvester Stallone hopes a musical based on his beloved boxing film Rocky will also be a hit on Broadway.
Here are the full list of winners at this year's Olivier Awards:
The last time Helen Mirren portrayed the Queen she was rewarded with an Oscar and a Bafta award. After returning to the role on stage she has also been crowned with British theatre's top act…
The last time Helen Mirren portrayed the Queen she was rewarded with an Oscar and a Bafta award. After returning to the role on stage she has also been crowned with British theatre's top act…
The last time Helen Mirren portrayed the Queen she was rewarded with an Oscar and a Bafta award. After returning to the role on stage she has also been crowned with British theatre's top act…
The last time Helen Mirren portrayed the Queen she was rewarded with an Oscar and a Bafta award. After returning to the role on stage she has also been crowned with British theatre's top act…
The last time Helen Mirren portrayed the Queen she was rewarded with an Oscar and a Bafta award. After returning to the role on stage she has also been crowned with British theatre's top act…
As Helen Mirren and Kristin Scott Thomas settle into their seats at the Royal Opera House in London tonight, they might look warily over their shoulders, for trouble is afoot at theatreland'…
Where's a good doctor when you need one? Iago implies that he has, personally, administered some physic. His practice is to kill, not cure, though. In Nicholas Hytner's keenly awaited NT sta…
What are we talking about? The NTS's stage version of the Swedish vampire film, which follows a young boy's unlikely friendship with a little girl who has a taste for blood.
Interviews with artistic directors come and go. Sometimes they are interesting, sometimes they are boring, and just occasionally they make you drop the proverbial marmalade. Step forward Mik…
It's difficult to see that attitudes to extreme disability have improved much since Peter Nichols first wrote his groundbreaking black comedy, inspired by the experience of bringing up his o…
Arts prizes clearly have a function beyond making obscure artists more visible and a little less poor. In the case of The Place Prize for choreography, now in its fifth edition, it also enab…
Conor McPherson's The Weir established itself as an instant classic when it opened at the Royal Court in 1997.
This revival begins in a sombre mood with the thrust stage covered in crunchy desiccated leaves which a bleak Orlando, in servitude to his abusive older brother, and the loyal ancient Adam (…
Dennis Potter's death in 1994 was mourned in some quarters as the passing of Britain's greatest ever television writer. But the searing inventiveness of Brimstone and Treacle, Pennies from H…
Propeller Arts is an all-male-troupe, which is unusual in itself when gender-blind casting in Shakespeare is on the rise and more women are taking leading male roles.
Draft Works is a platform for new choreography, works created by dancers of The Royal Ballet and associate artists.
You're sitting comfortably at the theatre. The show begins and you dig into your chocolate Minstrels. But some annoying person close to you starts moving around too much, making loud noises …
