A veteran stage technician, who worked in the West End for more than three decades, has quit his job after a social media row with fans of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
If you go to a ballet that tells a story, chances are that you will see a fairy tale, a pastoral idyll, or one of an apparently endless stream of different Alice in Wonderlands. Dance does o…
Sat upstairs at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, tucked into a corner, I am leaning as far forward in my seat as I can to catch the detailed footwork happening on stage. Six tap dancers are…
Sat upstairs at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, tucked into a corner, I am leaning as far forward in my seat as I can to catch the detailed footwork happening on stage. Six tap dancers are…
I can't think of many plays that would more overtly vindicate the National Theatre's Travelex scheme. 500 tickets at £15 are available for each performance of Nadia Fall's vibrant Olivier…
Visitors to Shakespeare's Globe this autumn may find the stage area masked in what director Adele Thomas calls "really nasty chipboard". Play-goers need not worry: the South Bank theatre has…
Forget all those Sherlock fans, Benedict Cumberbatch's mum proved herself the biggest Cumberb**ch of them all at the official Hamlet press night.
With his great gift for portraying the brilliant misfit and racing, ironic intellect, Benedict Cumberbatch is natural casting for Hamlet. But I wonder if a bit of him now wishes that he'…
St Petersburg Ballet Theatre's La Bayadère is fantasy spectacle on a pinched budget. The staging is skimpy where it should be lavish, while the company are overstretched by Marius Petipa's …
Lynn Loader enjoyed the Top 10 double-barrelled villages forming a jazz band last month, and said she had long been collecting famous old-school repertory actors from maps. This is her listâ…
After plans to move one of the most famous lines ever written for the stage to the opening moments were abandoned, many in the theatre world have wondered what all the fuss is about.
Benedict Cumberbatch is no longer opening Hamlet with the play's most famous lines after an uproar erupted over producers' re-structuring.
Edinburgh festival is not short on solo shows, but few manage a performance as captivating as Aoife Duffin; this monologue is both technically and emotionally impressive, leaving her " and h…
Performed by four male dancers from physical theatre company Gecko, Institute's 'story' is as shifting and fluid as their deliciously watchable movement " it twists and turns and tangles up …
Kimin Kim's jump soars like an eagle, but even he can't lift St Petersburg Ballet Theatre's trudge through Swan Lake. His guest star turn is a glimpse of sparkle in a glum performance.
Two women sit next to each other; Sue MacLaine speaks, Nadia Nadarajah signs. Both seem to imply the other is interpreting for them " there are comically patronising pauses while they wait f…
The world premiere of the Northern Ballet's production of 1984 is only weeks away, and its choreographer, Jonathan Watkins, is finessing a pas de deux with the principal dancers.
One of Britain's most celebrated theatre directors, Sir Trevor Nunn, is embroiled in a furious row over the all-white cast chosen for his latest Shakespearean production, The Wars of the Ros…
When Jessica Sherr arrived in Edinburgh with her solo show three years ago, she felt overwhelmed by the scale of the event. At the same time, Neil James had started his own show at the Festi…
The heels are six inches tall, the legs above them long, lean, and shapely, and the smiles are 100-watt. But if you think musical theatre is all tits'n'teeth, then the stars of Kinky Boots f…
Pierre de Mariveux's 1730 classic French Farce The Game of Love and Chance (La Jeu de l'amour et du hasard) has been given Anglicised rebrand by British writer and director Matthew Partridge…
Forget the fiery gypsy, carefree, charismatic and domineering. Carmen, according to director Robin Norton-Hale, is a tale of domestic violence, resonating with the many news stories of domes…
Homer's epic poem The Iliad is being read aloud in its entirety in a one-off cultural event hosted by The British Museum and The Almeida.
When Sergei Polunin, a wayward Ukrainian ballet protege, looked to reposition himself as a Hollywood star, he turned first to pop music. Together with the photographer and director David LaC…
Homer's epic poem is being read aloud in its entirety in a one-off cultural event hosted by The British Museum and The Almeida.