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Gregory Doran has crafted an impressive addition to his English histories project
Laura Wade's stage adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel is worth the admission price for certain sequences alone
Floating through the patterns of Les Sylphides, the Trocks " the world's best-loved drag ballet troupe " simper sweetly until something goes terribly wrong. Then they soldier on, while morti…
Tanya Ronder is the author of some very good theatrical adaptations which have appeared at some very distinguished addresses. But her instinct seems to have deserted her in this, her first s…
Fans rejoice, as JK Rowling has revealed some magical new details with regards the upcoming stage play about The Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
A #15secondshakespeare hashtag is circulating among thespians on Twitter this week, with actors giving spoken word versions of popular, often shallow, songs as though they were lines from Sh…
One can say, with some certainty, that Samuel Foote (1720-77) would have relished the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch where a hopping monoped auditions for the role of Tarzan: "I've got n…
Greek drama is all over British stages currently, from the Almeida's Greeks season to versions of The Oresteia at the Globe and at Manchester's Home, to National Theatre Wales' site-specific…
I once had a brainwave. A big movie-musical in which Ethel Merman, Special Envoy, brings peace to the Middle East. Working title; Call Me Saddam. Such a pity Ethel died in 1984 or we'd h…
To any theatregoer, the story is familiar. After all, there isn't much to tell; two vagrant men stand at the base of a tree and wait for Godot, who may or may not come. In this 50th year of …
As a volunteer at the immersive theatre production of You Me Bum Bum Train, I've been able to do things I wouldn't normally do. I've fixed two sewing machines, I've lugged furniture around, …
Science, like life, is a complicated affair. So portraying the lives of six scientists over a febrile two years of discovery, in a 90-minute, one-act play, was never going to be easy. But th…
True, you might want to think twice before declaring that this play about the last public hangmen in Britain is "drop-dead hilarious" or "perfectly executed". But that's a pretty exact descr…
It is the very model of a major modern racism row: a US production of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic comic opera The Mikado has been criticised for being insensitive to Japanese people by us…
The notion that opera is a glamorous and frivolous entertainment for the social and cultural elite may be a convenient stereotype, but for those who have experienced it nothing could be furt…
The ingredients for Covent Garden's new Orphée et Eurydice make the mind boggle. Direction is shared between a choreographer (Hofesh Shechter) and a house director (John Fulljames), with 11…
As bright as a showgirl's sequin and as patriotic as a jam sandwich, Terry Johnson's new stage musical is based on the original screenplay of the 2005 film starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskin…
Benjamin now flatly refuses to do swimming at school. Normal adolescent body issues? If only. The teenage protagonist of Marius von Mayenburg's provocative, horribly funny and distre…
The first thing you see when you walk into the rehearsal area of Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre is Brian Cox. Not the actor himself, but a life-sized photograph of him on the stage, one of…
Footwear-fetishists must have have felt a tad short-changed by Here Lies Love, the Imelda Marcos disco-musical staged at the National last year. It was a great piece but it mysteriously left…
Tanya Ronder's new play has been causing alarm at the box office, because theatregoers don't want to say its name. "That one with the polar bears," they say, or "the play that opens in Septe…
Just when you thought there wasn't quite enough nudity in Game of Thrones, George RR Martin has given his blessing to a burlesque version of the HBO drama.
Her last West End appearance, seventeen years ago in The Blue Room, mushroomed into a sensation when one critic described her performance as "pure theatrical viagra". All the more credit, th…
The late John McGrath's hugely important fusion of Highland ceilidh and old-fashioned Scots musical theatre for his 7:84 company hasn't been performed in 24 years, and yet it still remains a…
A stone's throw from the entrance to London's Victoria Station, a small man in an ill-fitting tweed suit, mangled tie, scuffed shoes and cloth cap with an upturned peak threads his way throu…
