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The veteran Welsh actor Victor Spinetti has died of pancreatic cancer, his agent said today.
The West End hopes to welcome another Roald Dahl hit when Sam Mendes returns to the stage with a musical version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
Eight visions of "utopia", as eight short plays, sprung from eight very different pens. Opening at London's Soho Theatre this week, Utopia is written by a mix of playwrights, comedians and p…
The West End hopes to welcome another Roald Dahl hit when Sam Mendes returns to the stage with a musical version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
Oscar-winning film-maker Sam Mendes is returning to the West End with a musical version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
In Pina Bausch's series of works inspired by cities, the locations are nearer to the surface in some works than others. If you know Rome, you may recognise more of it in the stylised perform…
A slight, traumatised man is led into the locked ward of a vast mental asylum. Stripped of his suit, in his institutional scrubs, he is a tiny figure observed by three CCTV cameras and from …
Anna Pavlova was one of the twentieth century's greatest dancers. The popular image of a ballerina is still Pavlova-shaped, from her Russian name to the Dying Swan; her tireless touring intr…
Richmond Ballet, the state ballet of Virginia, USA, made its international debut with easy grace. This is a very likeable company, with dancers who share a fluent classical style and warm st…
Where's the glamour, you may well ask. At the start of Gatz, the inhabitants of Long Island appear to be stuck in a drear office " a warren of flickering strip lights and grey filing cabinet…
What are we talking about? A stage version of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon's 2003 best-selling novel, at the National Theatre.
Describing the late Pina Bausch as a choreographer is a bit like calling a unicorn a kind of horse " not untrue, just inadequate. She was an animator, a conjuror of stage pictures, a prober …
If you believe the saying, "politics is showbusiness for ugly people", it will come as no surprise that politicians are centre stage this summer as theatres host a glut of shows focused on t…
Not to be confused with Ridley Scott's alien thriller Prometheus, another reinterpretation of the Greek myth arrives in Greenwich next week. Prometheus Awakes will be a piece of theatre on a…
There are a lot of firsts here. It's the first time, in the UK, that we will see West Side Story with new steps. It's the first time that The Sage, in Gateshead, will present a fully staged …
Using a witty new version by Jack Thorne, Friedrich Durrenmatt's absurdist tragicomedy from 1961 is revived with aplomb by Josie Rourke, bringing home how this product of the Cold War is lik…
Is it inspired casting or a Shakespearean joke too far? David Walliams, the actor, children's author, charity swimmer, talent-show judge and comedian with an apparently unslakable passion fo…
What happens when your star storms off ?
Dominic Dromgoole's admirably large-spirited and beautifully paced production of Henry V is a canny, not to say mischievous, piece of scheduling, poised as it is to serve two purposes.
So many theatrical adaptations of great novels fall along that forlorn spectrum between "inadequate" and "lousy" that it's become almost routine for critics to assert that "You'd be better o…
The playwright Jez Butterworth, whose Jerusalem was a transatlantic smash hit, has a new play out in October at London's Royal Court. The theatre bosses say they're expecting a "huge demand"…
Douglas Hodge picked up awards on both sides of the Atlantic for his knock-out turn as Albin, the drag queen in the Menier Chocolate Factory's production of La Cage aux Folles. He now re…
The playwright Jez Butterworth, whose Jerusalem was a transatlantic smash hit, has a new play out in October at London's Royal Court. The theatre bosses say they're expecting a "huge demand"…
Manchester Lines, a new production commissioned by the Library Theatre Company, sounds like the kind of project people might study on arts admin PhDs. It is, of course, "site-specific".
Legally Blonde star Sheridan Smith is set to play Hedda Gabler in a London stage production of Henrik Ibsen's seminal work.
