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Tim Roseman and Paul Robinson kick off their last season
as joint artistic directors of Theatre 503 (Robinson continuing
solo) with a quirky, heartening collective project that brings
togeth…
English Touring Theatre played an admirable role some years ago in the rehabilitation of Terence Rattigan. They are unlikely to fare as well, I fear, with this attempt to make a case for the…
Having hung up his headphones as host of Radio 1's breakfast show, Chris Moyles' new career begins this Friday when he stars as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar in an arena tour.
Sophie Lancaster, the young woman killed in a Lancashire park in 2007 for being a goth, has inspired a series of artistic tributes, the latest of which is a stage play about her tragically s…
Kim Cattrall has doffed the black wig and reverted to blonde for this revival at Chichester of Janet Suzman's production of Antony and Cleopatra which began life two years ago at the Liverpo…
If theatre critics were responsible for the lasting reputation of the plays that they review, The Second Mrs Tanqueray " which is to have a rare revival this autumn " would never be off the …
Former ITV television presenter Matthew Kelly will star in an adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull by Anya Reiss.
"So it's like being unhappy but in your leg?" asks the young boy who can feel emotion but has no experience or conception of pain. This is not the only time that the thought-experiments of W…
Many ballet companies struggle to stage new works. For San Francisco Ballet, it looks like a breeze: they're dancing eight in this London season, spread across a generous three programmes. T…
It looks like a prism, with one glass plane seen through another. In Ibsen's Hedda Gabler " directed by Anna Mackmin " the morning sun is initially shining in at the windows of the Norwegian…
Could he be the next David Hare? His new political play, This House, about MPs during the hung parliament in 1974 opens at the National.
Britain's oldest continuously working theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, has re-opened after an 18-month refurbishment inspired by its original 18th-century design. It has olive-green velvet seat…
Nikolai Gogol's biting satire on the corruption in Tsarist Russian public life makes an effortless translation to a small modern day Pennine hill town. It is all a bit League of Gentleman bu…
Heard the one about why God gave women orgasms? "So they've got something else to moan about". It's not a new a gag, but I'd wager that you're unlikely to have caught it before in a revival …
The comedian Sarah Millican is refusing to perform at venues operated by Britain's largest theatre operator, the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), because of its high booking fees.
The team behind the first theatre to be built in London for 30 years hopes it will help foster a New York-style "off Broadway" scene in the capital.
The question of how many liberties you can take with Shakespeare is usually a matter of editorial fiddling or wild exercises of translocation. You less often encounter a controversial boldne…
You would need a heart of stone to resist being moved, at least in part, by Anthony Rapp's one-man musical memoir of love and loss. But you would not need to be a fully paid-up cynic to feel…
When it was premiered in 1998, critics (myself included) gave a cool response to this David Hare play that deals with self-sacrificial love and betrayal and homes in on two pivotal episodes …
I simply longed to be her chihuahua as I watched Sheridan Smith's irresistible portrayal of Elle, the not-so-dumb bimbo in the musical of Legally Blonde. I ached to dry her tears when, in an…
If Hamlet is the supreme test of the younger actor, Jonathan Pryce passed it with flying colours in 1980 at the Royal Court where, in a startling double, his febrile Prince hawked up the spe…
If Hamlet is the supreme test of the younger actor, Jonathan Pryce passed it with flying colours in 1980 at the Royal Court where, in a startling double, his febrile Prince hawked up the spe…
Eddie " one of the two top stationery executives in the North of
England " really knows how to show a girl a good time when he takes
her away for a dirty weekend. Before ordering champagne f…
A series of scintillating moments elevated the Crucible's 40th birthday celebration of the Bard's spooky Scottish tragedy from the merely very good to the excellent.
She was comprehensively adorable as Elle, the chihuahua-toting bimbo turned Harvard hot-shot in the musical version of Legally Blonde.
