The ceiling fan stirs the thick soup of the delta night air in the bedroom of the colonial mansion house, where the pent-up frustrations of dysfunctional family life seethe until you have to…
As Barack Obama fights for a second term in the White House, Rashid Razaq, a reporter on the Evening Standard, weighs in with this intriguing and accomplished two-hander that speculates …
Playwright Bruce Norris has stopped the Deutsches Theatre in Berlin from staging Clybourne Park after discovering that a black character was to be played by a white actress in make-up.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has become the latest cultural heavyweight to take aim at the Government over its education policy, saying funding arts in schools has produced "enormous returns" for the…
Playwright Bruce Norris has stopped the Deutsches Theatre in Berlin from staging Clybourne Park after discovering that a black character was to be played by a white actress in make-up.
Anna Karenina director Joe Wright is to stage A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic next summer, starring acclaimed actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.
With the pioneering verbatim-based London Road at the National and the RSC's exuberant Matilda conquering the West End, the British musical has been showing signs of bold, fresh life in the …
Taking inspiration from Russia's feminist punk band, the Royal Court Theatre will host its own Pussy Riot protest in early November.
Nicolas Kent is a hard act to follow at the Tricycle but Indhu Rubasingham kicks off her tenure as the new artistic director in striking style now with this fascinating, if flawed, new play …
The morning before I met him for his first national newspaper interview as director of the Royal Ballet, Kevin O'Hare found himself being presented with his old school socks. He'd nipped dow…
Model Kelly Brook is to strip on stage after joining the cast of saucy nude revue show Crazy Horse.
Olga, Masha and Irina yearn for the adrenaline rush of life in Moscow in Chekhov's heartbreaking masterpiece. Don't miss this stunning version by director Benedict Andrews at the Young Vic.
It started off small. Five early-era Michael Jackson lookalikes in psychedelic shirts and Afros, sneaking their way through Neverland ranch's front-gates. Once entry was achieved, a digital …
It makes perfect sense to hold a contemporary dance season on a fashion campus. Central St Martins is the hip, newly merged creative arts university whose plate-glass-and-granite premises, b…
This has to be major news: a play by Samuel Beckett that has never been staged, till now. Check out the casting, too: Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon, no less, directed by Trevor Nunn. A qu…
Due to my sheer adoration of the first series of Homeland, it pains me to question to the second's existence.
Small and perfectly formed, with a face-full of designer stubble and the expensive suntan of a man who only recently returned from a Caribbean honeymoon, Benjamin Millepied saunters into his…
"It's death to be understood," declares Galactia, the 16th-century artist-heroine in one of Howard Barker's most accessible and stringently witty works " a searching study of the tension bet…
Hollywood actor Tom Hanks will make his debut on Broadway playing a tabloid journalist in the play Lucky Man.
"It is suicide to be abroad. But what is it to be at home...what is it to be at home? A lingering dissolution," declares the elderly, ailing Mrs Rooney in Beckett's 1957 radio play where…
Rupert Everett's acclaimed performance as Oscar Wilde is to transfer to the West End.
Last summer's riots have tarnished the reputation of a generation. Three months afterwards, almost half of the 2,000 adults surveyed by children's charity Barnardo's believed children in the…
The ceiling fan stirs the thick, hot soup of the delta night air in the bedroom of the colonial mansion house where the bourbon flows as plentifully as the deep waters of the Mississippi.
Spare a thought for poor Bertie Carvel. One minute, he's a camp brute of a headmistress swinging schoolgirls round by the plaits in the rip-roaring hit of Matilda. The next, he's being bruti…
Michael Attenborough has announced today that has resigned as artistic director of the Almeida to "concentrate solely on directing".