Now here's a pearl of wisdom. "Don't go trying the same route twice," the Professor advises in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the CS Lewis children's classic adapted and staged by Rup…
It is 13 years since Kenneth MacMillan's The Prince of the Pagodas was seen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Now it is back: Dame Monica Mason, in her final season as the Royal Balle…
"More often than not I could tell you my characters' texting habits and favourite swear-words."
Don't expect a Slumdog Millionaire sequel any time soon. The team behind the Oscar-winning film have split over plans to turn it into a stage musical, which will now go ahead without the dir…
I am ashamed to admit that when Edward Hall's production was first announced, my thoughts were not kind. Giving a theatrical makeover to an iconic film about two men preparing for the Paris …
It is a magical setting: an elegant white circus tent in the lush green parkland next to Kensington Palace (William and Kate's back yard). But the familiar tale of the Pevensie children, who…
Security around the Globe to Globe Festival escalated last night, to put it mildly, when Habima, the National Theatre of Israel, presented The Merchant of Venice. These precautions are hardl…
As a fierce May sun scours Tel Aviv's Bauhaus-style "White City", it's cool down in the compact "cellar" theatre of Habima.
It's not just the humour of Matthew Bourne's early work that makes it so remarkable. It's also the gayness. Emerging from dance training in the late 1980s, Bourne set up his fledgling compan…
Adapted from the award-winning film, Edward Hall's staging of Chariots of Fire is just out of the starting blocks at Hampstead. Yet this homage to Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell " Britain'…
You have to hand it to the London 2012 Festival team. When they call it "a once in a lifetime experience", I rather think they mean it. In an "age of austerity", this almighty splurge is not…
Tomorrow, London's Royal Court Theatre will hold a celebration of the life and work of Britain's greatest absurdist playwright, N F Simpson (1919 -2011). And I imagine we will hear much talk…
On Wednesday night I joined the great, the good and the odd crafty ligger at the Royal Academy, where the Queen hosted a celebration for the arts. I'm with Her Majesty on this one. There's q…
"Posh off!" was the headline in The Sun when, in the wake of the last Budget, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries described her own Prime Minister and Chancellor as "two arrogant posh boys" who d…
We're already in classic Bourne territory, with comedy masking yearning and repression, woven through with sharp movie references. For all the wit, this revival is hit and miss. At its best,…
You might not expect the playwright of the incendiary and savage Posh, to look like the elfin 34-year old, Laura Wade. With her long blonde hair, bright eyes and gentle laugh, Wade's amiable…
In a tiny upstairs theatre, a man in a wig and kimono asks us to imagine we're in the Albert Hall. We never discover his name though, in his role in a glittering production of Madame Butterf…
Sadie Frost, 46, is curled up on a sofa while rehearsing her new one-woman show, Touched...Like a Virgin.
Vintage comedies are all the rage. The West End can't get enough of them since One Man, Two Guvnors (an 18th-century classic that was rejigged as a Sixties seaside caper) proved a roaring, a…
It was an old-fashioned Hollywood fairy tale: the low-budget movie, with a feel-good plotline and a virtually unknown cast, that managed to capture the public imagination before walking away…
Next year Rambert really will have something to celebrate, when it moves to gleaming new premises on London's South Bank. But for the moment it has the 100th birthday of the world's first pi…
Fashion: Be haus proud
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When UK-based Jonathan Kydd and Californian-based Andy Street, who writes the incidental music for American Idol, decided to write a musical together they were not deterred by distance.
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