Performers and other creative people with autism should be taken "out of the ghetto" and on to major stages around the country, the only autistic solo performer currently producing his own w…
Cinemas hiring more security for showings of Straight Outta Compton this weekend will reportedly be reimbursed by Universal Pictures.
Soundtracking a work by arguably the English language's most menacing playwright with music by one of Britain's most celebrated miserablists is quite a combination.
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Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz " controversial 17th Mexican nun and esteemed poet and dramatist " may seem an unlikely protagonist to pull in the crowds at the Globe. But Helen Edmundson's wo…
A man, his wife and his mistress meet up in an abandoned hotel to plan a suicide. It's a two-star joint with one room and one floor. And a caretaker who is trying to clean up the place for a…
On a bare white stage, shaped to taper off into the distance, three women emerge, shafts of light around them angled so that it portions them off into their own cell-like spaces.
One of the UK's poshest festivals brought naked sports days, wild swimming, a Champagne tent and an entire spa and wellness sanctuary to Cornbury Park, a country estate set in 400 acres of p…
The Missing HancocksThe Assembly RoomsReview by Veronica Lee
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Imagine spending months rehearsing arguably the most iconic of all theatre roles, only to begin your 'To be or not to be' soliloquy and be put off by a load of flashing red lights in the fro…
Benedict Cumberbatch has called upon his army of fans to help put an end to the filming of theatre plays on camera phones.
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London's West End is often criticised for its soaring ticket prices, but north of the border one show is proudly boasting the "most expensive seat" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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State-of-the-art forensic technology from South Africa has been used to try and unravel the mystery of what was smoked in tobacco pipes found in the Stratford-upon-Avon garden of William Sha…
Benedict Cumberbatch is seen drenched in sweat with his eyes glittering as he wields a dagger high above his head as Hamlet.
Queensland Ballet comes to London being very Scottish. Peter Schaufuss's production of La Sylphide has plenty of tartan and misty glades, with fresh dancing from this Australian company.
Betrayal is a central theme in Hamlet, as every Shakespeare student knows, but on Wednesday night the bloodiest backstabbing was taking place among the theatre critics gathered to witness Be…
Benedict Cumberbatch fans have been queuing throughout the night for the chance to see the actor play Hamlet at the Barbican.
But the Cumberb**ches will ruin it for sophisticated theatre-goers with their cries of "I love you Benedict!", they said. The Sherlock fans will talk over the soliloquies, they said.
A controversial play about radicalised young people joining Isis has been cancelled without warning just two weeks before its opening night.
Abi Morgan has gone on to achieve renown as a screenwriter (for The Irony Lady, Shame etc) since this play was premiered in Edinburgh fifteen years ago. It's good to report that Robert Hasti…
Fans of Benedict Cumberbatch started queuing for tickets to see their hero as Hamlet almost 20 hours before the box office opens and releases more tickets early on 5 August.