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"Why am I leaving?" ponders Vicky Featherstone, standing in the National Theatre of Scotland's HQ and looking out over an impressive panoramic vietw of Glasgow's high-rise skyline. "I'm leav…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realist fable proves to be the perfect vehicle for this bewitching collaboration between Islington's Little Angel Theatre and Cornwall's Kneehigh company.
I've played a number of buttoned-up British women There is something in our national characteristic that is naturally repressed, and I do find that fascinating. Why do we repress so much? I …
Never mind the new year sales: there are now only 38 shopping days till Valentine's Day, and, for lovers of dazzlingly inventive theatre, the hottest ticket on that February night will surel…
In a new, four-hander play called Hero, the actor is Jamie, a primary-school teacher. He's not gay, but it seems that some of his seven-year-old charges think he is. His colleague Danny (pla…
As belts continue to tighten, don't be too surprised by a sense of déjà vu, as theatres pad their schedules with known quantities (hello again, 50th-anniversary revival of West Side Stor…
As a parent, particularly of little girls, one can grow sick of the saccharine world of princesses and fairies. What a relief, then, to see Mike Kenny's Sleeping Beauty, which runs in multi-…
The actor Jonathan Slinger is clearly unfamiliar with the concept of playing down expectations.
Farce " with its panic-propelled exits and entrances " should not work in the round. But at the Orange Tree, which has a rich festive tradition of staging the works of Feydeau, they make min…
More Hollywood-friendly stars than ever are swapping screen for stage in 2013.
Scottish-American actor John Barrowman, 45, was playing the lead in a matinée performance of Jack and the Beanstalk when a live horse was spooked and threw him on to the stage at the SECC C…
Olympians may have dominated 2012, but it seems theatre-goers have had their fill of Britain's sporting triumphs as the West End adaption of Chariots of Fire ends a month earlier than planne…
Scots Cambridge graduate, James, has it all " or what passes for "all" in our materialistic culture. Having made a packet from computer games, he's the self-made metropolitan man incarnate, …
He's been called the "antithesis of feel-good" by at least one critic but the playwright Martin Crimp has released an album titled - ironically? - 100% Happy.
Since his breakout hit, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Judd Apatow has barely been out of the multiplexes, writing, producing or directing some 18 movies since 2005. Now he has his eye on Broadway.
A play featuring black actors in "blackface" will be the centrepiece of this year's High Tide theatre festival.
Scottish Ballet's Nutcracker is a deliberate step away from Christmas sugar. There's a cartoon edge to Antony McDonald's designs, while choreographer Ashley Page is determined to make the st…
Fuerzabruta is a big, loud, cheerful burst of images. A running man breaks through walls, giggling aerialists chase each other and women swim, in real water, over the heads of the audience.
I last saw Nick Payne when he was working full-time at the National Theatre bookshop. Fast-forward four years and he has just become the youngest ever winner of the Evening Standard's best p…
Solo shows have a bad rep. When fringe theatre gets parodied, the image is often a lone actor droning on about some hobbyhorse subject. At the other end of the spectrum, are deranged, egotis…
Paul Sirret has a long creative association with the Theatre Royal Stratford East where his works include the Olivier-nominated Ska musical The Big Life. This, though, is his first ever pant…
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