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Terence Rattigan's vindication as a playwright of emotional intelligence, elegant wit, and a gift for expressive construction continues with Lindsay Posner's consummately acted production.
There were moments, during the three hour slog through The Low Road, when I found myself thinking that I would rather tak' any road than have to watch it again.
Maria Aberg is talking about falling in love with just a hint of breathlessness. It is partly because she is directing As You Like It, in which Orlando falls head-over-heels in love with Ros…
David Farr's new take on Hamlet takes place in what looks like the fencing gym of a run-down public school.
David Farr's new take on Hamlet takes place in what looks like the fencing gym of a run-down public school.
Even before she becomes a ghost, Natalia Osipova's Giselle defies gravity. Running out from her rustic cottage, she hangs in the air with each glowing, skipping step. Osipova and her partner…
Nora in A Doll's House is right up there on the list of big theatrical roles for women; Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play provides a richly complex female central character, who ultimately leaves her…
Nora in A Doll's House is right up there on the list of big theatrical roles for women; Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play provides a richly complex female central character, who ultimately leaves her…
Film and television stars have stormed the stage at Britain's showpiece theatre awards, with Helen Mirren, James McAvoy and Kristin Scott Thomas vying for the top acting gongs.
The American Plan is bit like a hyper-literate variant of Henry James's novella Washington Square, but this play by Richard Three Days of Rain Greenberg boasts its own splendidly astringent …
Film and television stars dominated the nominations for Britain's showpiece theatre awards, with Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Rupert Everett and Kristin Scott Thomas vying for the top acting …
Peter and Alice seemed to have everything going for it. It marks the reunion of director Michael Grandage and the three-times Oscar-nominated author, John Logan, with whom he had such a succ…
Peter and Alice seemed to have everything going for it. It marks the reunion of director Michael Grandage and the three-times Oscar-nominated author, John Logan, with whom he had such a succ…
It's a case of Bart " as well as Bats "Â in the Belfry in Quasimodo.
The Book Of Mormon has set a record for the biggest day of sales in West End and Broadway history.
War Horse author Michael Morpurgo has written a new play about the Christmas truce of the First World War.
It doesn't bother Michael Frayn that he has a doppelgänger in Hampstead. In fact he seems quite pleased.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the American duo behind the gleefully rude, animated sitcom South Park, have romped into London's West End to cock a snook at religious claptrap. Their satirical …
At the dog-end of a British winter, there's nothing so welcome as a blast of Spain. Sadler's Wells clocked this 10 years ago when it scheduled its first annual flamenco fortnight, a table of…
The Book of Mormon has scored the highest one-day box office sale in London's theatre history.
Does Shakespeare always have to be our contemporary? Many theatregoers will surely have had moments when they answered "no" " when the prospect of a period production of the play they're wat…
Proof tells the story of Robert (Matthew Marsh), a one-time maths genius who, now middle-aged, suffers from an unspecified, sporadic madness and general mental decline, after his skills peak…
The Book Of Mormon penned by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame and Robert (Avenue Q) Lopez, fetches up in the West End with the garland/albatross of 9 Tony Awards round its neck …
Russia's state audit agency is looking into the Bolshoi, a probe that comes amid allegations of mismanagement and corruption at the famed theatre, officials said today.
