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There was just one problem with this supremely entertaining pantomime and it persisted right until the end, no matter how witty the script, how exuberant the musical performances and how cha…
Simon Russell Beale's Terri is as camp as a row of tents in Privates on Parade, Peter Nichols's 1977 seriocomedy about a British Army song and dance unit in Singapore and Malaysia, entert…
Simon Russell Beale's Terri is as camp as a row of tents in Privates on Parade, Peter Nichols's 1977 seriocomedy about a British Army song and dance unit in Singapore and Malaysia, entert…
If your idea of a good night out at the theatre involves a cerebral interpretation of a classic work, viewed from a comfortable seat, with a discussion of its highlights over a glass of bran…
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Why not give Twitter a rest and catch up on some theatre? The V&A has just launched a new app for iPads which examines the history of theatre since 1945. Narrated by Simon Callow, Played…
The Royal Shakespeare Company is the natural home for Pushkin's great drama, with its echoes of Macbeth and the history plays, and its policy of commenting on the political turmoil of its ow…
Liza Minnelli is returning to the Royal Festival Hall 40 years after her last appearance there as part of a celebration of Cabaret-era Berlin.
Will Tuckett's danced version of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows evokes a tweedy idyll, from woolly ducks to comedy car chases. In 2002, it was the first Christmas show created for…
When she's not directing adult theatre of extraordinary rigour and imaginative reach, Katie Mitchell does a smart line in children's Christmas shows.
Sergei Polunin, the Ukrainian prodigy who stunned the dance world by walking out on the Royal Ballet, is to return to the UK for a brutal show "as far away from Swan Lake as you can get".
Anthony Head brought his school blazer, Freddie Fox a road sign and Meera Syal a belly-dancer's waist chain. But it was Tracie Bennett, last seen playing Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow, …
As a parent, particularly of little girls, one can grow heartily sick of the saccharine world of princesses, fairies and their tyranny of pink.
The Royal Court has a proud tradition of offering alternative Yuletide fare and this year they have surpassed themselves with Dominic Cooke's razor-sharp production of a work that could be d…
English National Ballet's Nutcracker is a muted production lifted by sparkling dancing. From stars Vadim Muntagirov and Daria Klimentová through to the corps of Snowflakes, the company da…
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The Spice Girls were in London last night to promote new musical Viva Forever! penned by their good friend Jennifer Saunders and including their greatest hits from "Wannabe" to "Spice Up You…
Philip Ridley's epic fairy-tale is the last production to be presented in Southwark Playhouse's current venue under the arches of London Bridge Station before it moves to temporary premises …
"Yám Sing!" The phrase, meaning "cheers" in Cantonese, echoes round the theatre at the Arts Depot in north London, as cast and audience drink a toast to the "happy couple" in the play. Th…
1. Church of St Peter and St Paul, Guildford, Surrey23 December, free, 01483 202594Wrap up warm to hear the carols in this ancient church. Mulled wine and mince pies should help to keep you …
Listening to the cast cranking out Spice Girls covers in Viva Forever! " the long-anticipated juke-box musical based around the band's back catalogue " I found myself thinking that it's a…
Manchester has become a rich beneficiary of Carol Ann Duffy's powers of retelling old stories. It's five years since The Manchester Carols premiered in the city, and the Poet Laureate's late…
Call her Comedy Spice? Jennifer Saunders has claimed she is the sixth Spice Girl after penning the nineties girl band's new musical Viva Forever!
At the Royal Ballet, the future's Scarlett. The choreographic whizz kid Liam Scarlett, 26, has just landed the newest job in the company: artist-in-residence, a post created especially for h…
'I rather expected she'd be prettier' says Wendy of Tinker Bell and I imagine much of the audience thought the same. In Sally Cookson's production of JM Barrie's Peter Pan, Tinkerbell is not…
