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Roger Allam has promised to get back to me about his testicles. Yes, really. This is not some dubious chat-up line from a man famed for playing "louche bastards", as he puts it. He is, quite…
When people book tickets for a premiere they generally have some idea what they're buying into. And the Parisians who arrived at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913 to see…
Is this going to turn into Alan Bennett: The Musical? That's what you wonder, watching Untold Stories, a double bill of Bennett's dramatised memoirs with Alex Jennings as the playwright, acc…
Stephen Sondheim is two weeks away from his 83rd birthday on the windy, rain-tossed March day when I visit Broadway's reigning king of music and lyrics at his Manhattan home. He hasn't stepp…
Stephen Sondheim is two weeks away from his 83rd birthday on the windy, rain-tossed March day when I visit Broadway's reigning king of music and lyrics at his Manhattan home. He hasn't stepp…
The Royal Shakespeare Company is offering its Stratford theatre up as a venue for marriage ceremonies " and has just held its first ever wedding open day.
There are yelps of scandalised laughter throughout Matthew Dunster's miraculously acted revival of a 1949 gem by Rodney Ackland.
Husband and wife Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz will play an adulterous couple on stage on Broadway.
Wittgenstein famously remarked that "If a lion could speak, we would not be able to understand him" (because, as a different form of life, he would play wholly distinct language games).
Sergei Polunin, who shocked the dance world when he quit the Royal Ballet last year, has pulled out of a new show leaving some of those involved fearing for his welfare.
Sergei Polunin, who shocked the dance world when he quit the Royal Ballet last year, has pulled out of a new show leaving some of those involved fearing for his welfare.
Sergei Polunin, who shocked the dance world when he quit the Royal Ballet last year, has pulled out of a new show leaving some of those involved fearing for his welfare.
The Robinsons - the clan at the heart of Richard Bean's latest, intermittently uproarious new play - are to drug-dealing, money-laundering and protection-racketeering in Petersham what the v…
Monks from China's Shaolin Temple stand perched on tall wooden boxes. Swaying from side to side, they rock the crates until they fall, leaping free at the last moment. Famous for their warri…
The first memory which might be stirred by this complicated but ultimately gripping psychothriller about truth and perspective from rising star Rob Drummond is a faded one of evenings watchi…
Can you say of a face that it is "bunched" with artless merriment in the way that a fist can be said to be bunched in anger or frustration? You'd swear that that perception was permissib…
Laurencia, which continues the Mikhailovsky Ballet's London season, is a curious hybrid. The Spanish dances, castanets and local colour suggest the exotic ballets of the 19th century, with t…
The more plays I direct, the more I know that I don't direct them well unless I bring my own experiences into the rehearsal room.
A first for Tom Hanks? The Oscar-winning actor, director, writer and producer appears too have done it all " and won it all " in a Hollywood career spanning more than three decades. But unli…
Natalia Osipova suddenly launches herself sideways, sailing through the air to land in the arms of Ivan Vasiliev, half a stage away. The Mikhailovsky Ballet's Don Quixote is full of impossib…
Once the audience gets onto its wavelength, there are yelps of scandalised and delightedly incredulous laughter throughout Matthew Dunster's miraculously well-acted revival of this forgotten…
A first for Tom Hanks? The Oscar-winning actor, director, writer and producer appears too have done it all " and won it all " in a Hollywood career spanning more than three decades. But unli…
Something's rotten in the state of Russian ballet. That much is clear from news reports (and we surely haven't heard the last) of simmering resentments and violent recriminations at the Bols…
Second star to the right, and straight on till morning. That's the route to Neverland in Disney's version of Peter Pan. At last week's opening night of Peter and Alice " John Logan's biodram…
John Tiffany turns out to be such an ebulliently Puck-ish figure that halfway through our time together I decide to take a risk and tell him the truth: that I didn't want to see his producti…
