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'It would be very weird to see someone else play him.'
A performance of the blood-splattered play was cancelled last week after a male member of the audience fainted
Actors mock the Republican presidential candidate, who wants to build a wall along their country's border with the US
I couldn't watch the appalling scene of the foetus's emergence again unless held at gunpoint
The 28 dancers crawl out of darkness, moving with a thump and shuffle on the music's jagged beats
Written in 1907 and revised in 1926, Harley Granville Barker's work is perennially a play for today
'Hell, even in Russia, where black actors are scarce, the theater moved mountains to cast two black actors for the reading.'
​Gary Kemp, once of Spandau Ballet, is about to star in Harold Pinter's 'The Homecoming'. It's about time, he tells Nick Clark. Acting is obsessed with Oxbridge and received pronuncia…
I've seldom heard the ENO orchestra sound so thrilling
An exhilarating and sharp satire of those Christmas films in which a parent thaws and bonds with a wayward child
A resplendent day showed the different sides of Branagh's personality and reunited him with actors of an older vintage
108 years after it was banned by the Lord Chamberlain Waste is as timely, outspoken and provocative as ever
This is warmly recommended
Rambert's handsomely danced triple bill swoops from love stories to the rock'n'roll swagger of Rooster
Raison has been cast not only as Hermione, wife to Branagh's Leontes, but also in Harlequinade, a rarely seen Terence Rattigan comedy in which she and Branagh play actors in a classical…
The city aims to use its bid for devolved powers from Whitehall to create its own 'iconic building' on the waterfront
It's hilarious " as is Joe Bannister's enchanting performance as Orlando
'When something like this comes along, you go, 'I can sink my teeth into it and not just be the supportive girlfriend or wife''
The emotions that the play's Expressionism is supposed to be heightening get shorter shrift
John Nathan joins the double act on a trip down memory lane
Composer and co-lyricist Ricky Ross brings an affecting, soulful quality to the music
Chalayan and Jalet do have fun with transformations, clothes and sets that aren't quite what they seem
Above all, in its very different way, it strikes me as being in the grand tradition of Black Snow
Tickets for the production at London's Palace Theatre go on sale today but are expected to vanish as quickly as He Who Must Not Be Named
Superlative revival sensitises you to the comparable waste of young people's potential today
