Exit Finsbury Park station to the north and, as well as a thriving fruit-and-veg stall and a pub that seems to come to life only when Arsenal are playing, you'll find one of the most inspiri…
Rufus Norris's 2006 revival of this Kander & Ebb classic blew me away with its dark, fiercely energised and full-frontal vision of Weimar Berlin as a society gyrating its crotch at the e…
In Medea's shiny red Ikea kitchen, friend Pam and neighbour Sarah are circling each other, spearing for details of her mental and physical disintegration, vying for position as supporter in-…
The Victorian double-standard whereby a young male is allowed to sow his wild oats but a young female is branded forever as a "woman with a Past" comes under spirited, if equivocal, attack i…
Love means never having to say you're sorry. But Akram Khan did it anyway, emerging in front of the misbehaving set of his sold-out one-man show to apologise for earlier hiccups and the deci…
It seems as if they live in an egg timer. So said the woman next to me as we took our seats for Berenice, Racine's rarely seen neo-classical tragedy, directed by the Donmar's artistic direct…
What are we talking about? A new play from Headlong theatre company, at the National Theatre, promising to be a funny and moving "theatrical exploration into the human brain via the he…
"I had an epiphany," says theatre-maker Adrian Howells of the day he went swimming nude on a deserted beach in Greece.
"It's death to be understood," declares Galactia, the 16th century artist-heroine of Scenes from an Execution. But the fact remains that this 1986 play is one of Howard Barker's most acce…
Gavin and Stacey star Sheridan Smith has joined the cast of BBC1's adaptation of David Walliams's book Mr Stink.
"He said the army was his home, his marriage and his mistress," reports one of the characters here of the decorated veteran turned down-and-out whom he encountered sleeping rough on the Emba…
Glyndebourne, this is not. Welcome to opera for the next generation; where jeans and trainers are encouraged, punters can drink in bars and the young audiences can even stick on their headph…
The English theatrical spirit revels in indecorum, in laying banana skins under the paths of the high-minded, in developing a proliferation of sub-plots and in generally reserving rhyme for …
It promised the most lavish new musical to be staged on Broadway in decades, with a brilliant musical score and fiery conclusion to create a "stunning and unforgettable theatrical experience…
It is a Saturday night in Stratford-upon-Avon and theatregoers are settling into their seats for an evening with the world's greatest playwright.
Laurence Fox is sitting, like a giraffe in a box, in his tiny garret dressing room at London's Duchess Theatre. On one wall, brushing the top of his head, hang his costumes. His guitar is pr…
The role of the eponymous cross-dressing "aunt" in Charley's Aunt was written in 1890 for William Sydney Penley, a man so naturally funny that he had to give up a career in light opera becau…
The artistic director of the National Theatre today warned of a "clear and present danger" for regional theatre in Britain if the Government continues to "neglect" the arts.
If you spent part of the nineties breathing in deeply before trying to sing Whitney Houston's theme tune from The Bodyguard ([Inhale] "And aaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaye will always …
Our Boys is the explosively funny, award-winning play with a brilliant West End cast from the creative team of international hit Journey's End.
This year's Chichester season ends on a high with Jonathan Kent's wonderfully fresh, stylish and razor-sharp account of Noel Coward's finest comedy. It's the best Private Lives we have seen …
As the autumn nights draw in there is nothing like curling up in front of a roaring fire with a classic novel from the Victorian golden age. And this production of Robert Louis Stevenson's t…
What are we talking about? AÂ new ballet from Matthew Bourne's New Adventures dance company. Taking composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa's 1890 ballet version of the …
Arriving early at an unfamiliar venue is always a good idea, but half an hour of hanging around before the start of this saucy Parisian show staged in a tent behind the National Theatre is a…
It starts with the finale. In the opening scene of Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval " his 1984 seriocomedy revived by Trevor Nunn " a throng of 18th-century doxies dance round a grin…