Eight down, two to go. Pina Bausch's monumental World Cities cycle " 10 works for the stage each inspired by a great city, staged as part of London 2012 " has just clocked up Hong Kong and C…
How many artistic directors in this country could, if circumstances demanded, rewire their own theatre? Precious few of the so-called "Oxbridge mafia" who tend to run these institutions. One…
In Michael Frayn's brilliant play, first seen in 2003, the politics of the divided Germany of the 1970s becomes a metaphor for the divisions within the human soul.
Experimental Theatre ensemble, Tangled Feet, risk living up to their name in their new play, Inflation, as their new physical theatre piece is performed entirely on a bouncy castle. It promi…
London's Southbank is currently hosting the largest gathering of poets ever to be held in the UK, timed to coincide with the Cultural Olympiad.
For the male members of the audience, Joe Penhall's new play gives a whole new twist to the idea of a buttock-clenching experience.Â
Shobana Jeyasingh's latest work was created to be danced in churches, with an international tour taking it to church buildings from Venice to Stockholm. The free event is performed entirely …
The comedian Rufus Hound will take on the role which made James Corden a Broadway star when he leads the cast of the hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors during its UK tour later this year.
The comedian Rufus Hound will take on the role which made James Corden a Broadway star when he leads the cast of the hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors during its UK tour later this year.
Joe Penhall is proud to have been present in the delivery room for the births of both of his sons " William, now three years old, and Ned, one. "I was right there. In the pitstop," he says, …
You don't tend to find all that many investment bankers who turn into the Voice of Conscience in contemporary stage drama. So it's disarming when a filthy rich young financier is elevated to…
Sir Trevor Nunn has always been fascinated by how the musical inspired by Shakespeare's comedy crosses into real life " not least his own
I was 15 when I first saw a production of The Taming of the Shrew, and became idolatrously and hopelessly in love with the vivacious professional actress playing the virago, Katherine. Just …
It isn't all that often that you hear a character in a West End play singing the praises of McDonald's. In Chicken, you do: one of the main characters eats burgers, and fries, and nuggets, a…
Revolt! Rebel! Julie Walters is an old hippy, with long grey hair, still espousing the spirit of the Sixties in The Last of the Haussmans. This is an outstanding first play by actor-turned-w…
Opera performers do not usually boast a skill for plucking out human eyes and entrails. But then the precocious talent making his stage debut at the London Coliseum tomorrow night is not you…
The sprawling tragedy of Macbeth becomes one man's psychotic episode as Alan Cumming takes on every role and plays out the action as a hallucinatory monologue.
Kim Begley's Captain Vere silently mouthing Billy Budd's death sentence in the final scene of Britten's opera will be one of the enduring images of David Alden's new English National Opera p…
One of the first dancers from the Imperial Russian Ballet to dance in Western Europe, Anna Pavlova has been awarded near-mythical status as the Prima Ballerina who brought ballet into the 21…
Since its foundation in 1999, Cape Town Opera has heroically fostered the growth of opera in South Africa, while spreading the word internationally about the wonderful voices which thrive in…
1892: Lizzie Finn is a celebrated dancer.
Is ballet a sport? Of course it's not, in the competitive sense, although the physicality and athleticism on the bill for Dance GB, a three-way collaboration between Scottish Ballet, Nationa…
It seems to be open season on the baby-boomer generation in the English theatre at the moment. First we had Love, Love, Love from Mike Bartlett at the Royal Court. Now, in his debut …
Mike Tyson wants his next knockout to be on Broadway. The former boxer will team up with the film director Spike Lee to bring his show Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth to New York for six nights…
Mike Tyson wants his next knockout to be on Broadway. The former boxer will team up with the film director Spike Lee to bring his show Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth to New York for six nights…