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They don't make 'em like this any more - well, not quite. Written in 1982 by African-American dramatist Don Evans, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show whisks us back to the 1970s and takes a misch…
The artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre's ballet troupe was splashed with acid and may lose his eyesight in an attack that the Bolshoi said appeared to be linked to struggles for influe…
There's something about Miss Julie. Two productions of Strindberg's play will run concurrently in London this Spring.
The Bush Theatre has hired a bouncer and installed CCTV to police the audience at its next play.
At the grand old age of twenty-six, Polly Stenham is back at the Royal Court with a play that " almost to the point of self-parody at times " works variations on themes she developed in That…
Harlequin is traditionally an agile comic character, fast and acrobatic. Russian theatre troupe Derevo have no shortage of physical skill, but it's stretched out to painful slowness.
Could you bring yourself to forgive the murderer of your child? There are remarkable people who manage to do so " such as Gordon Willis spoke those heart-rending and politically transformati…
In Occupied France, a German officer is billeted on the coastal home of an old man and his niece. They resist with the only weapon that they have at their disposal " total silence.
One of the most significant themes of Our Country's Good is its triumphant advocacy of the power of theatre. A group of downcast and demoralised convicts undertake a production of Farquhar's…
This emotionally gruelling piece, originally performed in 1992, was the debut play by Dea Loher who went on to become one of the most acclaimed and widely produced German dramatists of her g…
The dead sailors stood on the deck and fixed him with a baleful stare. They were a ghoulish crew, fit for a "charnel-dungeon". So says the old seafarer as " haunted by guilt and superstition…
What are we talking about? A new play, which imagines what goes on behind the closed doors of Buckingham Palace, where the Queen has held weekly meetings with 12 different Prime Ministers.
Britain's richest landowner has enraged amateur actors with plans for one of his stately homes that could spell the end for a historic theatre in its grounds.
When the founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté, says he's taken the thing back to its roots for its 20th creation, he doesn't mean street performance, still less holding out a hat. Str…
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's magical realist fable proves to be the perfect vehicle for this bewitching collaboration between Islington's Little Angel Theatre and Cornwall's Kneehigh compa…
We're in uncharted territory, staring at a crystal ball. This glass globe adorns a table at Trinity Buoy Wharf " the Docklands river peninsula devoted to the arts and creative industries whe…
Hamlet will be performed at the Rose Theatre, Bankside for the first time since 1594.
"I'd expected a welcome like the Prodigal Son's," confesses Jan, the man who " in Camus' 1944 play Cross Purpose " returns home after twenty years of making his fortune abroad. But there's n…
While Britain makes plans to eat more salad and go to the gym, The Place's Resolution! season puts more new dance on stage. Run since 1990, it has become the world's biggest platform for new…
Ockham's Razor's aerial performance on the opening night of London International Mime Festival sets out to explore the idea of being lost and visual tales about trust and identity are the ha…
The young Faction Theatre Company made a powerful impact last year with a three-play rep season at the New Diorama. It included an exceptionally persuasive version of Schiller's Mary Stuart …
English National Ballet's Sleeping Beauty is the best in Britain. Kenneth MacMillan's production shows off the ravishing dances, with gorgeous costumes by Nicholas Georgiadis and a vivid sen…
When Headlong, the theatre company behind hits such as Lucy Prebble's Enron, announced last April that it was developing a musical based on Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, many a litera…
Cirque du Soleil offers a bewildering mix of the bland and the flat-out terrifying. As so often with this company, the clowning and the framing devices are all bombast. The acrobatic acts, w…
Fiona Shaw is rightly renowned for her dazzling ability to bring poetry to the stage. Her one-woman performance of The Waste Land was an extraordinary feat of psychic ventriloquism.
