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It may look like an uncoordinated display of flailing arms and wriggling torsos, but that has not stopped the Harlem Shake becoming an internet phenomenon, watched by more than 700 million p…
Here's a formula for upping the stakes in a triple bill. First, commission new work from the ballet world's two most-wanted choreographers. Then, drop in a masterpiece. Wham. That's the hand…
The doorbell rings. I hesitate, then head down the stairs to answer it, taking them at a wide-legged stomp, a goatee sprouting a shade too darkly from my chin, a bulge between my legs. It's …
As artistic director Daniel Evans points out, The Full Monty is a pretty unusual feel-good comedy. It mines its laughs from depression and confusion, forging joy from the spirit of men who r…
Ballet Black, the award-winning company founded to provide role models for black and Asian ballet dancers, is now 12 years old. It has established its own identity, which is as much about ne…
Impressionist Rory Bremner is making his theatrical debut, in Bath, playing a butler in a revival of Noel Coward's Relative Values alongside Caroline Quentin and Patricia Hodge.
One of Poland's hottest political topics - abortion and the Catholic Church - is the animating force in this extraordinary three-hander by 22 year old Anna Wakulik. Already seen in her nativ…
It takes a certain bravery to tinker with one of the great plays of the classical canon " let alone rip out two entire acts and replace them with brand spanking new material. True scholars h…
The Rolling Stones are threatening legal action to halt a new musical set in London's Swinging 60s heyday which is set to include one of their biggest hits.
A new musical set in London's Swinging 60s heyday will feature hits by The Rolling Stones after the band agreed to allow their songs to be used in a theatrical production for the first time.
It has been a novel, a Swedish film and an American remake, now Let the Right One In is to be reincarnated for the stage, with a new setting in Dundee.
Film director Joe Wright (of Atonement and Pride and Prejudice fame) has theatre in his blood (his parents ran the beautiful Little Angel Puppet Theatre in Islington), but this is his first …
"I've never gone over the top in the First World War, I've never killed anybody, I've never been a woman…" William Boyd is listing the leaps of imagination he has taken while writing his 1…
Kevin Spacey found an inspired use for Twitter. Last
weekend, he asked his followers: "What book or movie do you guys
think should be made into a stage production?"
Robert Hardy will no longer play Sir Winston Churchill opposite Helen Mirren as the Queen in upcoming theatrical production The Audience.
It began with a picture in my mind, as most of my stories do. A moonlit doorway, an apprehensive old couple looking out, and a little boy in a ragged page's costume saying to them "I was a r…
This new musical bursts onto the stage like a wittily knowing and colourful cross between Mack and Mabel and Hollywood Babylon. It tells the fascinating and ultimately rather heartening true…
24 Preludes, Alexei Ratmansky's magnificent new work for The Royal Ballet, glows at the heart of an awkward triple bill. The new Ratmansky makes the evening a hit, though it's flanked by a s…
Pity John Sessions? Heaven forbid! This, after all, is a man who describes himself as being a "bit punchable". Then there's that Spitting Image puppet: "They did John Sessions going up his o…
The man in charge is a monster. In A Chorus Line " the 1970s New York musical about dancers auditioning for a New York musical " the director, Zach, has dictatorial tendencies. We watch him …
James McAvoy's Macbeth skids across the stage on his knees and chucks up violently with his head down the loo before he launches into the "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well/I…
James McAvoy's Macbeth skids across the stage on his knees and chucks up violently with his head down the loo before he launches into the "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well/I…
"I wasn't being offered any roles," says the north Londoner, "so I wrote Bitch Boxer."
Stephen Unwin delivers an incisive and acidly entertaining revival of the play that catapulted Noel Coward to notoriety in 1924.
Shakespeare's Globe shook off the gloomy predictions around the Olympics to post a "phenomenal" year in 2012, with the most numbers attending one season since it opened in 1997.
