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'We are thrilled to fly Aladdin's carpet to London where the show has found its ideal home'
As a new, entirely improvised musical comes to London, Gillian Orr meets the cast for a masterclass and discovers her inner tightrope walker " metaphorically speaking
There's no hiding: on-stage seating creates a round that echoes the ghoulish spectacle of Victorian operating theatres
In an unnamed Eastern country, Tom Hughes's twitchy, selfish, privileged Simon is awaiting execution for the alleged murder of a prostitute
Long before they created Joey, the equine hero of 'War Horse', Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones used puppets to tell the stories of their native South Africa. On the eve of the London revival o…
'I feel like a marginal human being' says the star of new play Joanne in which she plays five women
The comedy is divine, but the images of love and loss are achingly human
Interpretation of the Bard's self-thwarting problem comedy revs into a kind of an elating parody
Survey finds that 80% of theatre-goers are put off attending productions more often over costly tickets
The story is partly based on the real-life case of a young man who took his own life when he discovered that his room mate was spying on his actual erotic encounters with men via a webc…
The experience of this trilogy throngs with satisfyingly rounded performances
Why should black women wear their hair in a way that conforms to western " aka white " beauty ideals?
Musical telling Berry Gordy's story will feature 50 Motown classics, with some whittled down to two-minute versions
​Theatre is all about performance, but there is one 'performance' that it is too shy to portray on stage. Time to relax, says Amber Massie-Blomfield
Perfectly attuned production earns its five stars despite arguably a terrible mishap with plot and tone towards the end
Landon Rust began yelling at the actress during the opening scene and had to be led out by security
Miller wrote the play over six days in 1936 while he was at the University of Michigan
'Sustainability becomes a factor, in the same way as time or money'
'He was hot and romantic'
Matt Ryan, who plays Niall, insists the band are not 'lookalikes or impersonators' so fans have no reason to be angry
Founder of Belarussian underground theatre questions why there is 'so much fear' in UK about 'provocative' work
Complex female roles have been around since ancient times " from Phaedra to the monstrous Mum in That Face
The Wolf Hall actor's Philippe V is wrong-footlingly whimsical but buffeted with gusts of violent paranoia
Vicky Featherstone also believes critics and audiences judge female playwrights more harshly than their male counterparts
Erica Whyman's splendid Swan Theatre production is potently restrained
