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Ballroom show Burn the Floor pushes from tireless into relentless. It's slick and brisk, with a hard-working cast who are always ready to throw themselves into kicks and tricks. Everybody is…
In the imaginative world of Graham Greene, "Leaving the miraculous out of life is rather like leaving out the lavatory or dreams or breakfast," wrote Kenneth Tynan in a 1953 profile of the a…
In his play The History Boys, Alan Bennett raised eyebrows with his sympathetic portrayal of Hector, the teacher forced to step down for fondling his teenage pupils.
The time is coming - maybe sooner than you expect - when you look at Daniel Radcliffe and don't think "Harry Potter."
There are some lovely things in it, and there's one riotous surge of profane comic energy, but a faint sense of disappointment lingers over this much-anticipated reunion of director Tom Morr…
To play one British monarch named Elizabeth may be considered fortunate; to play two looks like calculation. When Helen Mirren followed her portrayal of Elizabeth I in 2005 with Elizabeth II…
There should be no need for a company called Ballet Black, just as there should be no need for all-female political party shortlists. But there is, and for two reasons: to offer a platform f…
Everyone needs a shoulder to cry on. Or is a stiffer upper lip what's required? When John Major starts blubbing, the Queen resorts to her patent-leather handbag, whisks out a hankie and flut…
One of Poland's hottest political topics " abortion and the Catholic Church " drives 22-year-old Anna Wakulik's extraordinary three-hander.
After his recent stint as Richard III the actor Mark Rylance
is to take on another major period of British history in a television
adaptation of Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels.
Chekhov is amongst that very rare breed of author who is a genius in two distinct forms " the play and the short story. Michael Frayn, not un-incidentally a fine translator of Chekhov, is an…
The Bolshoi ballet star Pavel Dmitrichenko claimed from inside a metal cage in a Moscow court that the acid attack on the company's artistic director was "a mistake".
The life of Isabella Blow, the late stylist and muse, is to be made into a play. It will be written by Tim Fountain, whose plays include Sex Addict, in which he sent himself on a series ofÂ…
London's Southbank Centre is to bring its Festival Wing out of the 1960s and into the 21st century with a £100m overhaul that marks the "final piece in the jigsaw" in the transformation o…
The Southbank Centre is to bring its Festival Wing out of the 1960s and into the 21st century with a £100m overhaul that marks the final step in the transformation of the site.
A comrade of a deceased combatant visits his bereaved family. We know the drill, we know the score of this time-honoured dramatic trope. Don't we?
For a slim book, The Great Gatsby has more plot than you'd think. David Nixon's new production for Northern Ballet races through it, spelling out the ambiguous relationships of F Scott Fizge…
His best roles on the Bolshoi stage have been villains; at a recent premiere he played Ivan the Terrible, hunched and gurning as the brutal but psychologically tortured Tsar. Even so, there …
A soloist with the Bolshoi ballet has confessed to ordering the acid attack on the troupe's artistic director, Sergei Filin in January.
"Prime Minister, everything you say in this room stays between us," the Queen reassures John Major before he shamefacedly reveals his "dubious distinction", as a Downing Street incumbent, of…
I had been in New York for less than 24 hours when my sister abandoned me in a warehouse. "I've got to find the naked rave," she whispered, eyes crazed behind a white beaked mask. And off sh…
English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer Award is a feelgood occasion that ticks any number of balletomane boxes. Set up to encourage young dancers within the company, it celebrates up-and-…
Russian police this morning arrested a suspect in the acid attack that nearly blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre.
"We're like racehorses," said Darcey Bussell of ballerinas, "with the things we put our bodies through." The nation's favourite ballet star looked poised and elegant on the Banqueting Room s…
Film director Joe Wright, who gave Anna Karenina an elaborate theatrical framework, slips backstage again in Trelawny of the Wells, his first stage production. Arthur Wing Pinero's 1898 come…
