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It's light and day when you enter the theatre; it will be night and dark when you leave. This is the proposition facing the viewer on attending Gatz, the acclaimed staging of The Great Gatsb…
The award-winning playwright Jez Butterworth is to return to London's Royal Court Theatre for the first time since the sell-out success of his work, Jerusalem. And, given the transatlantic t…
Last night, James Corden was crowned the king of Broadway as he was named best actor at the Tony Awards beating heavyweight rivals including Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Earl Jones. This…
Actor James Corden proved he was "the governor" when he picked up a Tony award for his hit show One Man, Two Guvnors.
Dancers Colin Poole and Simon Ellis, who make up the company Colin, Simon & I, spend Because We Care testing each other. They shuffle into each other's personal space, pushing through ri…
Reclining over the backs of a line of men, a glamorous blonde coos at the audience. "Do you know," she says, giggling, "under these clothes, I'm absolutely naked." In fact, the characters of…
Actor James Corden proved he was "the governor" when he picked up a Tony award for his hit show One Man, Two Guvnors.
Theatre is changing. Can you imagine Sir Peter Hall directing Shakira's world tour, or Sir Nicholas Hytner starting a travel agency? That's what Felix Barrett has been up to recently " and B…
Somebody had to do it, sometime. A two-and-a-half-hour score by Britain's greatest composer is not to be consigned to the scrap heap without a fair trial, and nor is the final big ballet of …
Feel the heat. The RSC has just set Julius Caesar thrillingly ablaze. Shakespeare's Roman play is often, wrongly, considered cold and colourless. Now, though, this political drama is scorchi…
Ella Hickson's marvellous play makes a well-timed arrival at Soho Theatre in Robert Icke's superbly cast co-production for Headlong, HighTide and the Nuffield Theatre.
Life expectancy for a female nurse is on the low side, to put it mildly, at the Les Cerisiers, the private sanatorium in The Physicists, Friedrich Durrenmatt's absurdist tragicomedy from 196…
Proving all's well that ends well, Shakespeare's Globe has sold 85,000 tickets for its festival of the Bard's plays performed in 37 different languages, "wildly" exceeding expectations.
Proving all's well that ends well, Shakespeare's Globe has sold 85,000 tickets for its festival of the Bard's plays performed in 37 different languages, "wildly" exceeding expectations.
The discovery of remains from The Curtain Theatre, where Shakespeare's company performed before moving to The Globe, has prompted developers to plan a "performance space" to commemorate the …
The Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac has been turned into many an artistic mediation on how the younger generation may suffer and be sacrificed for the sins of authority-worshipping fathe…
Viktor starts with a woman stepping forward to face the audience. She seems to have no arms: they're tucked away inside her red dress, its short sleeves gaping. The missing limbs are unnervi…
It starts with a whistle. It starts, in fact, with a very sturdy Afghan policewoman pointing fiercely at the crowd. She's at Kabul airport. She's also in Ephesus. She's also on the stage at …
Archaeologists in London have discovered the remains of an early playhouse used by William Shakespeare's company where Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were first performed.
Ella Hickson's marvellous play makes a well-timed arrival at Soho Theatre in Robert Icke's superbly cast co-production for Headlong, HighTide and the Nuffield Theatre.
The rise and fall of Tommy Sheridan, the controversial Scottish politician, is to be turned into a "tragi-comedy" by the creator of Rab C Nesbitt.
The Prince of the Pagodas has always been a problem ballet. The gorgeous Benjamin Britten score is tied to a confused fairy-tale plot, a jumble of King Lear with Beauty and the Beast. Kennet…
You would think they had enough drama in their lives, what with the cars, the cash and the paparazzi. But from tomorrow, the WAGs are taking to the stage to perform a musical rendition of li…
One is tempted to call Mark Bruce a master of the unexpected, but that wouldn't be entirely true. A Mark Bruce Company event is a savage combustion of loud music and eclectic movement in whi…
A cardiologist with no acting experience might not usually be a theatre director's first choice for a key role. But when John Collins was looking for someone to portray the father of the tit…
