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Actor's co-star stopped the play and the safety curtain came down
The actor is about to star as Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. He talks to Alexandra Pollard about the play's social relevance, his allergy to earnestness and why the narrative arou…
Henry V is an intrinsically doubled-edged work. Is Shakespeare's Plantagenet hero the supreme instance of patriotism as he trounces the French at Agincourt? Or is he a war criminal? Or is h…
Daniel Evans coaxes out some beautiful performances from his ensemble in this experimental new play at the Dorfman
Lily Allen was named Best Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Play for her stage debut in '2:22 A Ghost Story'
Andy Warhol, gentrification, and the criminal justice system are all under the microscope on the London stage this week " to varying degrees of success. Next week, we'll be reviewing Kit Har…
Anthony McCarten's Young Vic pacy production is an exercise in giving the audience what they want
'I knew I could sing the heck out of Christine,' actor said
Florian Zeller's play is a compelling exploration of the duality of men " but its puzzle pieces don't quite add up
'I wrote to Jo the day after it all hit,' he said
Anthony Lau delivers a stylish production at the Sheffield Crucible, set in a glittering, heightened contemporary world of neon outfits and disco-balls. Yet while the first half flies by, so…
With her National Theatre production, Emma Rice does a fairly remarkable job in making the text as lucid as it is, even if depth of character is sacrificed for breadth of narrative
The award-winning stage actor gives one of the standout performances in Joel Coen's film and is about to star on the London stage in 'The Chairs'. But things might have turned out very diffe…
'What is the anagram of "Omicron" and "Delta"? Media control,' composer said on stage at musical's reopening
Caryl Churchill's dystopian play has been shorn of its sharper absurdist edges " but Essiedu and Lennie James offer a series of delicately drawn character studies
Alistair McDowall's sci-fi epic is a game of two halves
Stars will appear in show without having seen script
Biographical drama is a feeble attempt to immortalise an already-fading Hollywood star
McCrory died from cancer last year at 52.
Stage adaptation of Glenn Close classic is an erotic thriller without any eroticism
Producers terminated Snyder's contract after an independent investigation
The Piccadilly Theatre's adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's film is at its most enjoyable when it eschews such concepts as 'characterisation' and 'narrative' and throws itself entirely into its ju…
Anthony Ofoegbu takes on the role of both energetic schoolboy and brow-beaten adult with impressive nimbleness in this swirling, repetitive Young Vic production
SplitLip's comedy musical about a little-known wartime plot is as daring as it is comic
RSC artistic director Erica Whyman said she was 'saddened but not surprised' by the comments received from a 'minority' of people
