There are no words. Literally, there are no words, as this extravagant piece of visual art unfolds through the corridors and empty wards of a modern hospital. Within the confines of the Sir …
Think Jane Eyre and you probably think corsets, grand houses and Yorkshire moors " but maybe not confetti, flames and Gnarls Barkley? Then think again, because this production is imaginative…
Singer, actress and comedienne Bette Midler is a hero of many artists, but none more so than star of Fiddler on the Roof and Wicked, Sue Kelvin. After a successful run at the Edinburgh Fring…
As getting arts funding seems to be as easy as getting the famous fat camel through the eye of a needle, the question 'why theatre matters?' is being thrown out into the stratosphere as ofte…
On 14Â September, an intimate audience were witness to the baby steps of Chris Jury's Nadya at the Park Theatre. The Production Exchange was presenting a Rehearsed Reading; thus, the cast …
The art of storytelling is about as old as the human race, and ghost stories always have and always will prove popular. Digital-mapping experts Share Space & Light have cleverly tapped i…
Image via Piero Fissore from Flickr I'm currently working on an extremely high-profile, multi-million-dollar feature film. For real. I'm on an incredible outdoor set, acting with real, prope…
Image: National Theatre After eight years, War Horse is to close in London. The show, based on a book of the same name by Michael Morpurgo, has been performed over 3,000 times, and has b…
Bugger me, this show makes you want to go out and party. My boyfriend has mentioned having a drag inspired birthday shindig next year and at first I was very skeptical. I like my heels below…
Caitlyn Jenner, Kelly Maloney… gender identity challenges are all over the media at the moment. But what we forget to think is that in a modern society, thankfully, people who divert f…
Headlong Theatre have been blowing the minds of audiences across the country with their intense, thought-provoking adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, and their adaptation of Wedekind's Spri…
It's a shame when a quality piece of writing that's brought to life as an accessible and enjoyable dramatisation is left to be performed without an audience. Whether it's the result of insuf…
Image: Rob Brewer, Flickr One of the most famous theatres in Bristol has received a grant worth hundreds of thousands of pounds for refurbishing work. The Bristol Old Vic has been awarded Â…
Salomé is the femme fatale extraordinaire, as uncompromising as she is cruel "Â a spoiled princess who knows what she wants and won't settle for less, equal parts virgin and lascivious wh…
If there are two things about Mrs Shakespeare that endures for some time after seeing it, it is the playfulness of the concept and the infectious energy with which Irene Kelleher ex…
And So Forth presents Damsel/Wife/Witch performed at the Caroline Gardens chapel in London. This company's vision is to create interdisciplinary art and the setting is perfect for that…
There is something refreshingly playful about the music of Mozart that makes it accessible even for newbies whose ears block at the thought of sitting through three hours of opera. The impre…
Souvenir T-shirts and overpriced programmes. Ice cream tubs and politely grinning ushers. We’re front of house for the new Britney Spears musical, Oops!… I Did It Again, but toni…
It’s difficult to talk about Amici without discussing theirs aims – namely, the inclusion of all performers, able-bodied and disabled alike. The company’s policy of nurturi…
"I suppose she just wasn't exceptional enough": at first a seemingly passing statement but in the final moments of Anna Ziegler's play, Photograph 51, Nicole Kidman summarises her character …
They say that your school days are some of the best times of your life. What people fail to tell you when glancing back through rose-tinted spectacles is that those days are also overflowing…
The tragedy of Orpheus and his lost love Eurydice has marked the hearts of many artists since the myth appeared in ancient Greece and showed the depths to the sacrifice for love. As Orpheus …
What is immediately arresting about Pomona is the way in which director Ned Bennett and designer Georgia Lowe spill this dark and twisted world beyond the stage space. Strip lights flicker i…
McQueen Theatre Royal Haymarket Booking until 7 November 2015 Set on a single London night, it is more than a bio-play. A girl (Dahlia) has watched McQueen’s Mayfair house for eleve…
Ready Salted Code's [data]Storm is a technological ballet where programme notes tell me that "classical ballet and computing collide". The production's visuals and choreography "use Me…