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Christmas theatre and political subtext may not make the easiest of bedfellows, but this year's pantomime at Glasgow's Tron Theatre works hard to freight a contemporary message where only th…
The Royal Ballet's production of The Nutcracker has a richly traditional air. Snow lies thick on the steeply-pitched roofs of a German town. Christmas tree fairies gleam with gilding, while …
Matthew Bourne's latest production starts with Tchaikovsky, turns left at Dracula and ends up somewhere around Tim Burton Gothic. It's a tussle between Bourne's gifts as a producer and his m…
Carly Bawden, 24, has landed the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at Sheffield Crucible Theatre alongside Dominic West, as Professor Henry Higgins, in his first ever musical. "
What are we talking about? AÂ new play about a young man, Robin, who heads back to his remote family home; apparently, it's an "anarchic twist on the drawing-room drama".
Our fathers' minds are dead, and we are governed with our mothers' spirits. So Cassius whispers, scornfully, in Shakespeare's Roman drama Julius Caesar. Damning such "womanish" cowardice,…
Matthew Bourne is far from the first choreographer to fiddle with the story of The Sleeping Beauty. And he won't be the last, such is the draw of Tchaikovsky's radiant score and the pe…
One shouldn't draw conclusions about a person from the choice of cushion on his office sofa, but in the case of Dominic Cooke I'm tempted. A colourful piece of embroidery with a picture of a…
How would you react if someone stole your life? That's the question posed in Laurence Boswell's Dostoevsky adaptation. Mr Goliadkin is an everyman working in a government office.
Little did we realise, when Jonathan Miller unveiled his Art Deco Mikado in 1986, that the production would run as long as it has, or that it would be so influential: many shows have paid ho…
On the Beeton track
The obligatory row ahead of opening night at La Scala, the most glittering event on the Italian social calendar, has this year assumed international dimensions.
Chapman, Idle, Gilliam, Jones, Cleese, Palin and … Forstater?
Danny Boyle's triumphant Olympic opening ceremony has been nominated for a top theatrical award.
Last King of Scotland and Atonement actor James McAvoy is to make an appearance at London's West End playing the title role in Jamie Lloyd's Macbeth.
The DryWrite company likes to set its authors intriguing challenges. For example, to test the degree to which it is possible to simulate the authentic voice, it once gave a group of dramatis…
The Playhouse needed to do something special match last Christmas's feelgood revival of Annie. But Ian Brown, making a speedy return as director to the house he left just this year after mor…
She is best known as the dozy "Trend Analyst" Coco Lomax in Twenty Twelve and for her stand-up, but Sara Pascoe also moonlights as a playwright.
When Viva Forever!, the new musical inspired by the Spice Girls, opens next week, it will be an opportunity to revisit some old chart hits. "Wannabe", "Mama" and "Goodbye" will all feature, …
Katie Holmes. The name comes up every time Dead Accounts, her new Broadway play, is mentioned.
Women who get a new lease of life through merry widowhood aren't a rare breed in either life or art.
The Bodyguard manages to fall simultaneously into two pretty suspect categories " the screen-to-stage adaptation and the jukebox musical. But the show is an altogether more pleasurable exper…
When the Spice Girls closed the Olympic Games, tumbling out of their glittery taxis in short skirts and too-high heels like the kind of hen party you might cross the road to avoid, they inst…
During their brief lifetime, student band Talulah Gosh was dismissed as the epitome of twee, "shambling" indie pop. But 25 years on the group has spawned a Turner Prize winner, Britain's lea…
Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin were at London's High Court today but, beyond the courtroom being plunged accidentally into darkness for a few moments, there was little comedy about…
