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On your marks, get set … go! No, not the Olympics: the real endurance test this summer is the Edinburgh Festival. The sprawling mass of culture that takes over the city for August " from t…
It may have been only for a few seconds, but for a short time the eyes of the world were on me. And it was great. I was one of the performers in the Jarrow Crusade part of Pandemonium. It wa…
Zoe Anderson
The first thing I'm going to do in the morning is watch the ceremony. Billions of people might have seen it, but not me! I will never forget this incredible experience. I have danced in stad…
A profligate philanthropist goes bust, loses his fair-weather friends and bolts to the opposite extreme, raging at mankind in exile.
New musical hunting is an alchemical sport. Producers come up with some unlikely combinations hoping to spark public interest. A Greek island romance with Abba songs? Jerry Springer: The Ope…
The versatile Tom McNab " former Olympic coach, best-selling novelist, athletics historian and playwright " was the technical director on the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, the stage versio…
Imagine that an asteroid has been discovered and there is
hard, predictive evidence that it is going to impinge on the Earth
on 25 March 2072 and destroy 70 per cent of the planet's resource…
Imagine you are in Shakespeare's globe theatre on a warm summer's evening. Merrymakers line the South Bank, drinking, talking and laughing; across the river, St Paul's cathedral towers above…
The super-rich are always with us, a few so generous they are immortalised in stone: the Sackler Galleries, the Sainsbury Wing, the Duffield Studio. And here is another, his gift to the Nati…
Cooks you can have too many of, ditto choreographers, so it was surely asking for trouble to cram seven of them into the making of three ballets. One can only think that Dame Monica Mason, i…
"I stopped because I felt that I wasn't able to deliver the performances I had been able to before," says the opera star Sally Burgess who retired in 2010. "Singers are vocal athletes and so…
Hugo Glendinning regularly photographs the greatest British theatre and dance companies " the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre and Royal Opera House. He shoots honed, expressive b…
Although it leads you past many strange and wondrous objects, from a bear's skull to a Jesuit's eye and a unicorn's horn, the British Museum's Shakespeare show begins and ends with a book. A…
Audiences may be divided as to whether Ian MacNeil's revolving design puts a fresh spin on Ibsen's great play or gives it a series of unnecessary funny turns.
Although he had toyed with the idea before, Alan Ayckbourn
did not feel ready to bring science fiction fully into his work
until his 34th play. A quarter of a century later and now on his
76…
Katie Holmes is returning to star on Broadway for the first time in four years starring in a new play, "Dead Accounts," set to open this fall, Broadway producers said on Thursday.
Katie Holmes will be returning to the Broadway stage in her first major project since announcing her divorce from Tom Cruise.
Actor Sam West has urged direct action to protect theatres around Britain that face closure, calling on the spirit of the occupy movement to salvage the buildings at risk.
The Archbishop of York has inspected the final preparations for an event billed as Britain's biggest outdoor theatre production.
"The first time I did it, I lost my voice," recalls Jamie Parker. "Completely blew it on the first try, shouted my head off and lost it. Pathetic, really but you get carried away."
Anyone wondering whether Shakespeare's plays are relevant today could do worse than visiting a new exhibition at London's British Museum dedicated to the "Bard", and, more importantly, the w…
A profligate philanthropist goes bust, loses all his fawning fair-weather friends and bolts to the opposite extreme, becoming an even more fanatical misanthrope who rages at mankind in his s…
The stage is no longer the rage. Proscenium arches are archaic. Thrust stages aren't, well, thrusting. Even theatre-in-the-round " so (metaphorically) edgy in the Eighties " is, like Jools H…
Les Misérables may chronicle a revolution by idealistic Parisians in 1832, but producers of this year's big- budget film adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic story were embarrassed when furi…
