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Six years ago, masked theatregoers wandered the gothic corridors of the Battersea Arts Centre for a production by immersive theatre group Punchdrunk.
Six years ago, masked theatregoers wandered the gothic corridors of the Battersea Arts Centre for a production by immersive theatre group Punchdrunk.
A former Bolshoi ballet dancer has called the acclaimed company a "giant brothel".
A former Bolshoi ballet dancer has called the acclaimed company a "giant brothel".
2011, his centenary year, was the annus mirabilis of Terence Rattigan's posthumous reputation, with a spate of excellent revivals and new plays, too, inspired by forgotten aspects of his car…
2011, his centenary year, was the annus mirabilis of Terence Rattigan's posthumous reputation, with a spate of excellent revivals and new plays, too, inspired by forgotten aspects of his car…
Female breadwinners are the focus of the first two thirds of Orange Tree's wonderfully well-integrated winter/spring season of freshly unearthed inter-war plays by women. The venue has j…
Benjamin Zephaniah's second novel Refugee Boy has played a powerful role in humanising the plight of the enforced migrant for a generation of young people. Published in 2001 following his en…
Hit stage show Riverdance is to make a comeback to the UK for the first time in four years with a theatre and arena tour to mark its 20th anniversary.
As material for a ballet, Lewis Carroll's Alice books have clear pros and cons. On the plus side, they have strong imagery and the chance for any amount of theatrical spectacle. On the minus…
The show, it seems, must go on, and on, even on Sundays. And it appears many performers are less than delighted by the prospect. Voting on a controversial proposal that could result in stage…
The dream is over, the enchantment broken. So says Eva when her daughter Lili's hopes have been dashed. It looks as if the young woman's beau, Nick, isn't going to rescue her from her mother…
On the surface, screenwriter and playwright John Logan's latest characters couldn't be more different. There was his Bond, James Bond, a damaged, Martini-swilling, villain-chasing, girl-gett…
Edinburgh International Festival has scored a coup: the UK debut of LA Dance Project. The company is headed by Benjamin Millepied (pictured), known for choreographing the film Black Swan and…
More Hitchcock! Hot on the heels of two films about the director, a new American mini-series will probe the twisted relationship between Psycho hotelier Norman Bates and his mother in Bates …
The Book of Mormon lets UK critics in next week but it has already taken out adverts full of adoring reviews " from the public.
Sarah Silverman has teamed up with Juno star Michael Cera, Reggie Watts, and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (aka Tim and Eric) for a new comedy venture " their own YouTube channel, JASH. Th…
Hugely enjoyable and cumulatively very affecting, the new play by Peter Morgan unfolds as a series of speculative peeks into the weekly confidential meetings between the Queen and the 12 Pri…
Amanda Whittington's new play invites us into the world of Ruth Ellis " the last woman to be hanged for murder in Britain.
Pleas from actors and artistic directors to politicians to protect Britain's rich local theatre heritage from cuts have largely fallen on deaf ears in recent months.
Pleas from actors and artistic directors to politicians to protect Britain's rich local theatre heritage from cuts have largely fallen on deaf ears in recent months.
A former member of the Special Forces, turned stunt man has now forged a career in magic, and his new show has just seen him promoted to the highest level of the Magic Circle achieved by exa…
Fevered Sleep return to the Young Vic for the first time since their remarkable 2010 show in which children delivered the verbatim thoughts and feelings of elderly folk who had been inte…
Last autumn, the Barbican played host to Mademoiselle Julie, a French production of Strindberg's 1888 classic that turned the play into a chicly timeless existential conflict.Â
Two years after its world premiere, the Royal Ballet's first full-length creation in two decades is back at the Royal Opera House, and this time it is coming to a cinema near you. Alice's Ad…
