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The Old Vic Tunnels " the cult arts venue that has hosted successful gallery shows, performances by award-winning actors and even a former US President " is to close.
Since 2009, thousands have flocked to the Old Vic Tunnels, a cult venue discovered by chance beneath Waterloo station, which has hosted successful gallery shows, performances by award winnin…
A British man is being in held in a prison in Uganda after appearing in a play which exposed the plight of homosexuals in the country.
Transformers actor Shia LaBeouf will no longer make his Broadway debut in Orphans having been dropped from the play because of "creative differences" between himself and Alec Baldwin.
Anders Lustgarten's play begins, promisingly enough, as a dystopian satire which takes us on a darkly absurd extrapolation of the "market knows best" approach to austerity. A government offi…
Hang on to those golden toppers; A Chorus Line is back in town for the first time in over three decades. And, make no mistake, it's alive and kicking. Michael Bennett's legendary 1975 show h…
A stuntman is suing for damages following a string of injuries allegedly sustained while he worked for the Broadway show Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
It was not easy being a man in the rapidly de-industrialising Britain of the 1980s. Gone was the job for life at the local pit/foundry/ship works where your father had toiled and possibly hi…
Hampstead Theatre will stage a new play about the arrest of Ai Weiwei this spring.
"But it isn't Christmas," was the response when I mentioned Birmingham Royal Ballet's shiny new production of Aladdin.Â
West End hit Sweeney Todd topped the bill at a theatre awards show by carrying off five prizes.
When Stephen Fry made his troubled exit from a West End production in 1995, leaving anger and recriminations in his wake, the actor feared he would never tread the boards again.
It should be a Valentine's dream: your lover crooning Edith Piaf's "Hymne à l'amour" beneath the sheets. Especially when the song has been something of an anthem for the lover in question…
Acompulsive gambler in a business suit, wanting to end it all, checks out of a Las Vegas casino-hotel and wanders into the desert, casting off his clothes as he staggers on under the burning…
It started as an experiment: to see if theatre could spark debate among those living on the fringes of society. Two decades later, the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre compan…
Pina Bausch once said that it sometimes felt as if she'd been working on the same piece for 20 years. It feels that way for the audience too when a distraught, wild-haired woman in a straple…
What are we talking about? A new play at the Royal Court, about a young entrepreneur setting out to make a (financial) killing, in the world of cut-throat free-market economics.
Director Rufus Norris and his team's exhilarating show sees five playwrights from as many countries tell the story of the diaspora of the Yoruba people through a miraculous melding of music,…
It was hailed in America as the "best musical of this century" and "the funniest musical of all time". Now British audiences will get a chance to see what all the fuss is about as the multi-…
If the phrase "rarely performed work" sets off warning bells, hearing that it explores the monotony of existence has them clanging. Pina Bausch was one of the most influential choreographers…
Going into the family business has always been a path fraught with peril. To the uncharitable outside observer success is served up on a plate whilst failure " even mediocrity - is seen as s…
Transferring a show from the regions to the West End is tricky enough, but how to go about it when the original production is in-the-round and the London theatre isn't?
His Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show saw him riff on Daniel Day Lewis with hilarious results.
A collapsed and fragmentary picture frame in bright yellow forms the shattered border of Neil Warmington's striking design for this incisive and acidly entertaining revival by Stephen Unwin …
The RSC round off their "World Elsewhere" season now with Roxana Silbert's astringent and vigorous modern-dress revival of Brecht's Galileo.
