James Fox and his 29 year old son Jack star in this two-hander based on the best-selling letters that Roger Mortimer, upper-crust "racing hack and long-suffering father" sent to his wayward …
Wunderkind, from the German 'wonder child'. Can we say that Sam Mendes, 50 today, was one? Yes, on the face of it; a First in English from Cambridge, a cricketing Blue, directing in the West…
The Almeida's Greeks season kicked off with Robert Icke's bold reinvention of the Oresteia that ditched most of the conventions of ancient Attic drama.Â
"Remember me!" At midnight, on the battlements of Elsinore, his father's restless spirit transfixes Hamlet with that command. "Remember thee!" Hamlet reflects: "Ay, thou poor ghost, while me…
The title of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is pretty self-explanatory. It is a collection of postmodern short stories featuring a series of wretched men who are qu…
That both Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde attended the same secondary school - Portora Royal School in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland - gives the establishment a cachet that not even Eton ca…
Simon Godwin's lucid and compelling production begins with its own added prologue. The 10-year-old Richard is anointed and crowned with solemn pomp and circumstance on Paul Wills's spectacul…
Albert Square's most explosive married couple are set to appear on stage together next year, but in the roles of a different husband and wife.
You can say what you like about American Idiot but a feeble Sondheim rip-off it resoundingly ain't.
For a grand and stately art form, ballet can be very unpredictable. When I started writing The Ballet Lover's Companion, I knew that I'd have entries on the 19th and 20th-century classics, p…
Holier-than-thou contests don't come more berserkly knockabout than the one that breaks out between two filthy, near-naked fourth-century monks in this 1969 play by Peter (The Ruling Class) …
A huge green tree spreads its branches over Dutch National Ballet's Cinderella, an image of the heroine's protective mother. For a story about transformations, Christopher Wheeldon's product…
My name is Bryony Kimmings, I am a performance artist from London. I met Tim in June 2013. I had been hidden away in a massive country house in the Yorkshire Dales for weeks, desperately mak…
As hostilities intensify between England and Australia for control of the Ashes, an altogether different cricketing clash is set to take place over the Irish Sea.
Spread your wings not for New Orleans but for the Menier Chocolate Factory and this utterly delightful Off-Broadway show. Pangs of nostalgia overlap with shivers of pleasure at the unexpecte…
This is vintage Alan Ayckbourn and forty years on reveals more of the depths hinted at when this wine was young. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Scarborough theatre in which his tal…
Fight Club is to not only get a sequel in the form of a Fight Club 2 comic, but a musical/"rock opera" on Broadway.
The dancing in Badke goes from social celebration to claustrophobic exhaustion, and back again. Ten Palestinian dancers, with backgrounds from hip hop to ballet, hurl themselves joyfully int…
A Turner Prize-winning artist has been hit with a repair bill after he went on a "wholly inappropriate" axe rampage causing damage to a brand new £25 million theatre after his play got sc…
In a ruling which, it is feared, will present a "huge challenge" to the acting profession, a judge has decreed that a group of actors should not be paid the minimum wage.
"The Greeks peaked early," opines one of the characters, declaring that the only talent of their descendants is "to drive a taxi at ninety miles an hour in fucking flip flops". The line …
Wendy Whelan and Edward Watson have plenty in common: long-limbed, sinewy dancers with nervous intensity and serious cheekbones. In Other Stories, former New York City Ballet star Whelan and…
You would think twice about calling this new British chamber musical a "cracking" show. An intense, hermetic piece, with music and lyrics by Eamonn O'Dwyer and a book by him and Rob Gilbert,…
Mark Rylance, the actor, has criticised subsidised theatre companies including the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company for charging "way too much" for tickets.
We all know the feeling of panic when you look at your phone and it's on 1 per cent, but while most of us would just sigh and accept the sad absence of Candy Crush on our journey home, one B…