James Anthony was desperate to take ballet classes at his mother's dance school in Wales, but put his dream on hold because he was frightened of being bullied at school.
When Mark Rylance and the cast of Farinelli and the King step on stage at the intimate Duke of York's theatre in London, from the flickering glow of the candle-lit set they may see some wide…
British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw may be hot property in Hollywood right now, but she's about to go back to the very roots of her profession " playing one of the first ever actresses, Nell Gwy…
As many theatrical knights have discovered, taking a key part in a blockbuster movie can be a double-edged sword: you're revered by millions of kids, but the role eclipses all the classy, gr…
Lela's name is up in lights and, initially, she's wearing a pink tutu. She's trying to tell us her story but her monologue " which begins as a gabby, slightly quaint outpouring of family ane…
Thanks to the school calendar, September always seems to transmit the tingle of a fresh start. And lo, here we have Matthew Warchus inaugurating his first season at the helm of the Old Vic w…
Adaptations of Orwell's 1984 come along fairly regularly (as witness Headlong's recent acclaimed account of it). Far rarer are stage versions of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's 1932 vision …
Warwick Davis has hit out at a Leicester theatre's decision to sack Snow White's dwarves from its Christmas panto out of political correctness.
It seems it was written in the stars that Freddie Fox would play Romeo, the star-crossed lover. The 26-year-old actor, youngest cub of the Fox acting dynasty, had always wanted to tackle Sha…
"I made my peace with disappointment a long time ago," declares a producer when he realises that the "Queen of blue-eyed soul" is defecting to Atlantic Records. The line elicits a delighted …
Say "the Scottish play" to your average theatregoer and, quite rightly, they think Macbeth. Ask them to forget Shakespeare and instead consider the defining moment in Scottish theatre, and m…
Nicole Kidman has said that her return to the West End is a tribute to her biochemist father and other research scientists whose contributions to vital discoveries are often overlooked by hi…
Christopher Eccleston has attacked social prejudice in theatre acting and suggested that only white, middle-class men get cast in classical roles in London.
Fans of The Goonies may have been on a rollercoaster ride of emotions as far as a sequel is concerned, but the good news is that an immersive theatre play based on the 1985 family film is in…
"I have to say it came at a very inconvenient time": that's Willem speaking, a 34 year old banker working in New York. He's irritated because a business meeting has been interrupted by a pho…
At first you hear the sound of humming, a warped Gregorian chant, then dancers leap into a circle, dancing frantically round and round, while two large men whip a young, topless man, bowed o…
We had always assumed and hoped that our children would to go to the local secondary school. But when our next-door neighbour's son failed to get in because they were about two-and-a-half ya…
Laura Wade, Sarah Waters and I are sitting in a cafe talking about dildos. "Honestly they are so common these days they are practically a Mother's Day gift," says Waters. Wade and I are less…
It took four years for Michael Grandage to find a play that would tempt Nicole Kidman back to the London stage for the first time in 17 years, and he discovered it in an unlikely place: the …
Back in 2000, David Hare's play My Zinc Bed suggested that, in the moral vacuum left by the collapse of the old certainties, addiction (to drink, drugs, shopping) had replaced ideology. We w…
David Bowie is writing new music, but fans won't be hearing it in the way they might expect.
Akram Khan, one of the most-acclaimed choreographers in the UK, has called for the Government to put dance in the curriculum saying it is as important as studying maths or medicine.
Tributes have been paid to Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to play the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables on Broadway who has died after falling from …
Tributes have been paid to Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to play the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables on Broadway who has died after falling from …
"There's a lot of directing to be done," is Jeremy Herrin's first comment about new play, People, Places and Things. He's not wrong: the latest work from innovative playwright Duncan Macmill…