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A new work by Olympic opening ceremony dance star Akram Khan will be the centrepiece of a centenary celebration of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite Of Spring.
Imogen Stubbs looked bashful at the curtain call, as if embarrassed by all the fuss. This may have been because one of her defining moments in a theatre audience was watching Vanessa Redgrav…
Three Irishmen in dusty suits " one young, one old, one middle-aged " hack at the rocks and shovel away the pieces on a stark building site. And as they dig, they buttonhole us with tales th…
He may have been the demon barber brandishing the cleaver, but Imelda Staunton has been proven stronger than her Sweeney Todd co-star Michael Ball after she beat him to win best performance …
Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre leads this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards longlist with 22 entries, followed by the Royal Court with 13 nominations.
New York's theatres and cinemas have battened down the hatches as the city braces itself for hurricane Sandy.
Birmingham Royal Ballet's Autumn Celebration is overpacked but full of energy. From the sprinting dancers of David Bintley's Faster to the flitting Shakespearean fairies of The Dream, this i…
The proverbial one that got away is always the whopper, the elusive prize catch. Well, it's a bit like that for some trying to secure a ticket to the Royal Court's keenly awaited premiere of…
What are we talking about? The latest work from experimental theatre company Shunt, this site-specific piece takes place in a former biscuit factory in south London. Taking inspiration from …
Whoever came up with the name Phoenix 30 years ago can have had no idea how many times the Leeds-based dance company would subsequently rise from its own ashes. Critical changes of leadershi…
Fashion: Something a little comfier
Short of setting himself on fire in the Royal Albert Hall, it's hard to see what Jez Butterworth could have done as an encore commensurate with the stonking transatlantic triumph of Jerusale…
Harold and Maude, Hal Ashby's 1971 dark comedy (below) about the relationship between a death-obsessed teenage boy and a 79-year-old woman who survived the Nazi death camps and lives life wi…
I found myself wondering the other night whether a white actor will ever play Othello again. In the near future the answer to this question is obvious, I would have thought. Only last week t…
Indhu Rubasingham kicks off her tenure as the Tricycle's artistic director with a fascinating play by Lolita Chakrabarti. The piece begins and ends in a theatrical dressing room, where the p…
For his first solo theatre work in 17 years, hip hop dance leader Jonzi D looks at being offered an MBE in the New Year Honours list. As subjects go, it's hardly hip, but he's well aware of …
"We are not just trying a tyrant, we are inventing a country. We are in an unknown region, floating on nothing, trying to think thoughts never thought before," declares Oliver Cromwell in Ho…
One of the most eagerly anticipated plays of the year, starring Dominic West and Miranda Raison, has its official opening tomorrow night in the tiny Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court. Tick…
Birmingham Royal Ballet's Opposites Attract is a light, brisk programme that goes soggy at the end. The dancers move with easy confidence from David Bintley's jazzy Take Five and Jessica Lan…
I grew up on Brixton Hill, a child of Thatcher's Britain, in the Eighties. I've always felt slightly at odds with what is considered to be even, and growing up as a young black guy in south …
As sharp as the suits of its City traders, Nicholas Pierpan's new play trains its satiric, devilishly clued-up, yet ungloating gaze on the fall-out " emotional, familial, institutional " of …
When I went to work for the Royal Court Theatre in 1968 as their first resident dramatist, I was lucky enough to be involved in a radical new initiative, which had been launched there earlie…
The innovative show returns for a hotly anticipated and strictly limited run.
When Jarvis Cocker snarls the words, "This is gonna be a heavy nite", you want to believe him. But truth be told, Michael Clark's latest meshing of stripped-down, Britart-cool ballet moves a…
On 25 March 1833, the crowd flocking into Covent Garden's Theatre Royal doubtless expected a tour de force from Edmund Kean, popularly deemed the greatest actor of his time. Coleridge observ…
