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Shakespeare's Globe has announced a new indoor venue to allow audiences to see plays all year round.
When they danced cheek-to-cheek in those romantic screwball screen musicals of the 1930s, only one of the said cheeks tended to sport stubble. Cut to 1975. In their affectionately daffy Off-…
Amy Winehouse's father has stopped the performance in Denmark of a play about the late singer, refusing permission for the use of her music and photos.
In a central scene of Unleashed, accounts of the fears and frustrations of young Londoners build into a scene inspired last year's riots.
Danny Boyle's spectacular Olympic opening ceremony has received special recognition at the 58th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
The director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, led a
rally to protect public funding of the arts following a double win
at the 58th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
At just 29, Nick Payne has become the youngest person to win the Best Play category at the 58th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Silence doesn't sit easily in a ballet. And it's the absence of music " or any sound at all other than the urgent smack of mouth-on-mouth in an illicit clinch " that galvanises the openin…
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is awash with romantic confusions caused by cross-dressing. Shipwrecked on a foreign shore and believing that her twin, Sebastian, has drowned, Viola disguises he…
We're about half-way through lunch when Janie Dee's face suddenly crumples. Everything so far has been "such a laugh", but quizzing the actress about her lead role in next year's new musical…
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Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry stand at opposite ends of the acting spectrum. The former is a protean genius; the latter performs subtle variations on the Fry persona.
EastEnders star John Partridge is to head the cast of A Chorus Line when it returns to the West End for the first time in more than three decades.
It's twenty years since Wayne McGregor founded Random dance. He's celebrating with this programme of new works by young choreographers " from within Random and from the Royal Opera House, wh…
Hollywood actor Jeff Goldblum is to return to The Old Vic stage for this year's "24 Hour Play" gala "where this year, for the first time ever, the productions will all be musical.
"One relationship, infinite possibilities" is the publicity phrase for Nick Payne's sparkling two-hander, seen earlier this year at the Royal Court and now concluding the Court's terrific We…
Sir Nicholas Hytner has not yet met the new Culture Secretary, but it is fair to bet that, when their paths do cross there will be a frank exchange of views. While Maria Miller said recently…
Mamma Mia! and Agatha Christie have led the way for European productions in China. And as its theatre market opens up experts predict it will be the third-largest in the world within a decad…
It's twenty years since the death of Kenneth MacMillan, one of The Royal Ballet's defining choreographers. His ballets, particularly his story ballets, are still at the heart of the company'…
Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry stand at opposite ends of the acting spectrum. The former is a protean genius who can lose himself unrecognisably in his roles. The latter performs subtle clever…
He famously hoaxed the art world with his fictitious creation Nat Tate but when it comes to the theatrical sphere, William Boyd hopes the only dissembling will be done by the actors in his n…
Love is a drug, it's often been said. But is that just a metaphor? Romance and medication are intertwined in The Effect, a keenly awaited tragicomedy written by Lucy Prebble and premiered by…
Repetition, so often a source of deep satisfaction in dance, is itching powder in the hands of Jasmin Vardimon. Several times in her new dance-theatre piece, Freedom, a doll-like personage i…
Whether he favours the Funky Chicken, the "Elvis" or freestyle, no one dances quite like a dad. For offspring, the usual response is to cringe, but a new project invites us to celebrate the …
Beneath Lincoln's Inn in Holborn, poor old William Prynne must be turning in his grave. In 1633, the Puritan lawyer wrote a 1,000 page pamphlet called Histriomastix: The Player's Scourge, ar…
