The dancing you hear in the Barbican's new Duchamp exhibition may not be the dancing you see. Philippe Parreno's exhibition design includes sound recordings of Merce Cunningham dances, feet …
Andrew Lloyd Webber may be at home in the glamorous surroundings of the West End stage, but his charitable foundation is backing a portable theatre that will bring exciting new work to locat…
Return of the prodigals: The Royal Ballet's latest mixed bill is a celebration of choreographer Frederick Ashton, but the news of the evening is Sergei Polunin with Tamara Rojo in Marguerite…
Who but Robert Lepage would set a piece that is partly about the Iraq War in a Las Vegas hotel and its desert environs?
It was probably the most cataclysmic moment in the history of music. On 29 May 1913, the curtain rose at Paris's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on the new ballet Le sacre du Printemps (…
For Northern Broadsides, Jonathan Miller has just revived Githa Sowerby's best play, Rutherford and Son, which caused a sensation when it opened at the Royal Court in 1912.
You might imagine that a rainy Wednesday night in Huddersfield is one of the less likely places that you might happen across a theatre well-stocked with eager viewers for a French-language, …
On screen, Tom Hanks has fought on the beaches of Normandy, jogged from coast to coast and back, and even contracted Aids. But now the two-time Oscar-winning star of Saving Private Ryan, For…
There's something really wrong here: the whole social system is unjust, our skint protagonist exclaims. A scallywag in tattered boots and a squashed felt hat, Antony Sher's Wilhelm Voigt sou…
Vivaldi knew a thing or two about making art accessible, so it's hardly surprising that his set of fiddle concertos known as The Four Seasons is the call-waiting music of every other high…
Kristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams continue the theatrical tradition of the role-swap in Ian Rickson's compelling revival of Harold Pinter's 1971 play.
Nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow is to become a father again at the age of 72.
Theatre-goers are used to solicitous, nannying notices about strobe-lighting, nudity and even cigarette-smoking at the entrance to productions.
Rupert Goold has been confirmed as the new artistic director of the Almeida Theatre in Islington London.
Merlin star Colin Morgan has lined up another magical role - on stage at Shakespeare's Globe.
Just over 550 years on from the "largest and bloodiest battle" fought in England, Shakespeare's dramatisation is to be performed at the site it took place.
David Baddiel is coming out of stand-up retirement, again.
Last week, at the opening night of Old Times, Kristin Scott Thomas stated that she "hates doing films" and would always prefer the stage to the film set.
There have many screen and television adaptations of Dickens's great novel, the latest opening just a couple of months ago.
Last year Blanche McIntyre officially became theatre's Next Big Thing when she was named Most Promising Newcomer at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, a title previously given to, among oth…
First produced in 1931, a couple of years before Hitler came to power, Carl Zuckmayer's comedy pokes risky, spirited and oddly charming fun at the German inclination towards militaristic con…
When baby-faced 33-year-old James McAvoy, star of the X-Men movies, Atonement and The Last King of Scotland, takes to the specially reconfigured stage of the Trafalgar Studios in London, thi…
A fire-breathing stiltwalker has suffered 'severe' burns to his face, neck and hands after a mask he was wearing caught fire.
If you think a play that sets out to celebrate the 400th anniversary of UK-Japan relations sounds in danger of becoming a dry history lesson, you'd be right.
"It's a bit of a problem. My bosom is mentioned in nearly every scene," Olivia Poulet says, with a wry glance at her lack of cleavage. "In the script my bosom is constantly described as 'hea…