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Questions about the purpose of preservation are raised in Alan Bennett's highly entertaining new play, which takes an outrageously funny swipe at the National Trust.
Last night's slam poetry showcase at the pop-up Arcola Tent (a temporary off-shoot of the Arcola Theatre in Dalston) was ostensibly to celebrate the launch of Sam Berkson's new potry compila…
The beautiful poetry of Edward Thomas " ostensibly pastoral but
often leading us to the mysterious, unsettling edges of
consciousness " came in a late spurt of creativity.
Miranda Hart and Hugh Bonneville are to be among the well-known names at a star-studded gala performance to celebrate the 60th anniversary of record-breaking stage show The Mousetrap.
Sir Kenneth Branagh will direct and star in a new production of Macbeth as part of next year's Manchester International Festival.
The Olympic opening ceremony
was championed around the world as it portrayed a rich vision of Britain's
cultural heritage. Yet the mastermind behind the event fears the future of
regional th…
British towns and cities would be more enriched if the love of "Wetherspoon's and Walkabout pubs and Mario Balotelli and John Terry" was replaced with the "sense of wonder" people can get at…
Reinventing Chekhov has been all the rage this year " from the existential slapstick approach to Uncle Vanya taken by Moscow's visiting Vakhtangov company to Benedict Andrews's radical makeo…
Anton Du Beke's Easy To Love shows a ballroom dancer dipping a very cautious toe in contemporary waters. The Strictly Come Dancing dancer doesn't move very far from the ballroom, sticking to…
Sir Kenneth Branagh will direct and star in a new production of Macbeth as part of next year's Manchester International Festival.
There's a chance to catch Kieran Hurley's
mind-altering rave/ play Beats at the Bush Theatre in London next week.
A Shakespearean flashmob plans to stage a protest against BP sponsorship at the British Museum this weekend.
In 2007, I went to the Royal Court to see Free Outgoing, a play by Anupama Chandrasekhar, from Chennai. It was directed by the then rising star, Indhu Rubasingham, who has recently replaced …
Dramatist Lucy Prebble and director Rupert Goold certainly can't be accused of dodging difficult subject matter. They scored a huge success with Enron, which drew high praise for the vivid p…
Twenty years ago Sir Kenneth MacMillan suffered a heart attack at the Royal Opera House during a performance of his ballet Mayerling. At the end of the evening, the stunned audience was info…
A theatre in Catalonia has started selling carrots in lieu of tickets in protest against a 13Â per cent rise in VAT on cultural activities in Spain.
Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett has been shortlisted for a major theatre award for her first stage performance in 13 years.
Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett has been shortlisted for a major
theatre award for her first stage performance in 13 years.
Nathaniel Martello-White's stinging satire is inspired by frustration at the dearth of quality roles for black actors in this country. Premiered in a production by David Lan that pulsates wi…
To hijack the words of Mark Twain, reports of the death of ballet have been greatly exaggerated. True, at the turn of the present century the art form was in a critical state of health. The …
Anyone who has enjoyed a straight play in the West End over the past decade, perhaps with some well-judged star casting, will almost certainly have seen something from Sonia Friedman Product…
The aristocracy is struggling to make ends meet. The ancestral pile has become unsustainable in People, a country-house comedy for our shamelessly capitalist era, written by Alan Bennett and…
Ah, the smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd… or should that be the whiff of damp community halls and the shuffle of family members with a sense of duty?
"It's about finding your own identity." It can't be easy
living in the shadow of his famous uncle, Carlos, who helped get
him into the Cuban National Ballet School, aged 10, and with whom
he…
"Woody is still a complete enigma to me. I adore him," the actress Sally Hawkins tells me. "He's incredibly complex but brilliant. At 76, he's just perpetual forward motion. He's so differen…
