So, when shall we do this again? It's the question three female friends, who bond at university, keep asking " fondly or bitterly or mournfully " as the decades pass in Di and Viv and Rose. …
Over the past 10 years, dance has impinged on the public consciousness as never before, but it's not all down to celebrity antics on Saturday night TV. The BalletBoyz, aka Michael Nunn and W…
What are we talking about? The Tony- and Grammy-winning satirical musical, following a pair of good American Mormon men who go on a mission to Uganda to try to convert the natives, arrives i…
David Hare was spot-on when he said that "there's a sort of line where you can't tell where Wilde ends and Rupert [Everett] begins".
By the time Verdi was writing this opera, in his early seventies, he had dispensed with preludes, and this greatest of tragic operas opens with a cataclysmic orchestral explosion.
Henry James's story has spawned some persuasive and genuinely disturbing adaptations " foremost amongst them, Britten's opera and The Innocents, Jack Clayton's great 1961 black-and-white mov…
There is a myth, peddled by Manchester City supporters, that most footballing Mancunians support their team; Man Utd fans, they claim, fly up each week from London. A survey by estate agents…
Hans was Heiri is built around a rotating house. The set looks like a dolls' house, a square of four rooms with simple furniture. Then it starts to spin. The performers stay upright as the f…
Hampstead Theatre is riding high at the moment. Their splendid revival of David Hare's The Judas Kiss has just moved triumphantly into the West End. And now they are celebrating a transfer o…
David Tennant is to return to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Richard II, five years after audiences and critics hailed his performance as Hamlet.
David Tennant is making a return to the Royal Shakespeare Company five years after his critically-acclaimed appearance in Hamlet.
David Hare was wittily spot-on when he said recently that "there's a sort of line where you can't tell where Wilde ends and Rupert [Everett] begins". And Hare is not the only person to n…
This co-production between the Lyric and Icelandic company, Vesturport, began life in 2006. It has since become an international hit. Catching up with it for the first time here, I have no d…
The Old King shows a man reduced to wordlessness, fighting to communicate or connect with an audience. Dancer Romeu Runa flails about, putting himself through gruelling tasks.
BalletBoyz William Trevitt and Michael Nunn have always been ambitious. This latest double bill shows off ten strong and charismatic male dancers in new works by big name choreographers Liam…
John Cranko's Onegin feels like the ballet-of-the-opera, a watered-down version of a stronger story.
Chandeliers hang over the vast space of Birmingham's indoor arena, twinkling with fairy lights. The set design pretends to evoke a ballroom, but really represents a television studio, all li…
When a masked assailant ran up to Sergei Filin outside his Moscow home, splashing his face with liquid that turned out to be acid, the long-simmering conflict within the Bolshoi Ballet took …
Aman is in a box. But this isn't one of those air-drawn, measured-in-handspans boxes that dog the popular perception of mime " the London International Mime Festival was shot of those long a…
Is Robin really worth his salt as a composer of piano music? He argues that he is, most defiantly in the final scene of No Quarter " another dysfunctional family drama by Polly Stenham who, …
Playwright E V Crowe was meant to be writing a prequel to King Lear. At least, that's what the Unicorn Theatre in London commissioned from the 32-year-old. The script that Emma Victoria Crow…
My favourite Broadway story is of the late theatre producer David Merrick. Annoyed by poor reviews for one of his productions, he used the phone book to find a bunch of people with the same …
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Its new London show received sceptical reviews, and now Cirque du Soleil faces questions about its future - after announcing plans to axe 400 jobs to cover spiralling costs.
The artistic director of Russia's most famous ballet troupe is in hospital with severe chemical burns after an unknown assailant threw acid in his face outside his central Moscow home.