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In 1944, the Nazis released a propaganda film entitled The Führer Gives the Jews a City. Terezin, in north-west Bohemia, was the place in question: it had been turned into, supposedly, a sh…
Stars of forthcoming West End musical Viva Forever! have met up ahead of rehearsals for the Spice Girls-inspired musical.
Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval, first seen at the National Theatre in 1984, is one of those plays that can sound fascinating in summary but promises rather more than it actually de…
Sweeney Todd is poised for glory at the Theatre Awards with three nominations.
The curtains will stay up at the national theatre of Ireland after it announced plans to stay at its famous Dublin inner city site.
Not many actresses can have turned down leading roles in two Steven Spielberg movies. Few have been able to go from working with a quirky European director to the set of a big-budget Hollywo…
Fresh insights into the celebrated 19th-century black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge can be drawn from a portrait of him dating from the 1820s which has been newly discovered just as a dra…
In the aftermath of a violent coup, an epic and compelling story of self-sacrifice and revenge plays out as a young orphan discovers the shattering truth behind his childhood.
Almost exactly a year ago, the West End gave us Backbeat, a musical about the Beatles' early years that did not feature any of the group's actual music. Now we have Let It Be, a show " bille…
Tamara Rojo has pledged to be "more ambitious" than her predecessors as she looks to transform the English National Ballet into the country's best-loved company.
Alan Sillitoe's 1959 short story gave a new voice to a new type of person: white, working class and angry. Its film adaptation three years later provided the formidable Tom Courtenay with hi…
Now is the season to be jolly, with Lear thrown out on the heath, Gloucester blinded on his way to Dover and sisters killing each other over the same man. Who'd have thought of Shakespeare's…
Before San Francisco was the city of flower power, before it was the city of Hitchcock's Vertigo, it was America's No 1 city for ballet. San Francisco Ballet staged the first US production o…
The country house has been modernised. Rather than a 19th-century pile, the Count's manor is minimalist " sliding sheet-glass and white walls " in Strindberg's Miss Julie, or Mademoiselle Ju…
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's tremendous rock oratorio covering the Passion and Crucifixion was a best-selling album and, in America, an arena concert phenomenon before it arrived first…
Dame Helen Mirren is returning to royal duty to play the Queen on the west end stage.
Swathed in a slinky, gold-sequinned gown and radiating a dangerous, febrile languor, Juliette Binoche instantly establishes her ability to command a stage when she strides on here as the epo…
Sophie Lancaster, a beautiful, intelligent, different young woman died in an unspeakably violent way, kicked to death so ferociously that the imprint of her killer's trainers was left on bot…
Breaking a leg on stage is meant to be an actor's worst nightmare but for Simon Russell Beale it was his finger that proved his undoing.
The Beatles have been the sweet inspiration for a huge portrait made entirely from jelly beans.
Follow our handsome hero Richard Hannay in this blissfully funny comedy thriller, featuring four fearless actors playing 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun. With dastardly murders, B…
An eclectic throng of celebrities descended on Victoria this week for the press night of Sandi Toksvig's Bully Boy which is the opening salvo at the St James Theatre, the venue that is billi…
The last episode of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's Steptoe & Son was broadcast on Boxing Day 1974. From the early 60s its seven series revolutionised British comedy - giving it a darker, …
Alluring black-and-white posters of a near-naked blonde advertising perfume dominate all four sides of the action in Sam Walters' UK premiere of this intriguing Spanish play. Theatri…
