Regional theatres facing huge funding cuts may have found an unlikely saviour in the West End impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh, after he announced plans to open a London home for great dram…
Oleg Tabakov, the Olivier of Russia, was nine when Stalingrad fell and the Russians sent small groups of defeated German soldiers across the country to show the exhausted Russian people that…
There was a blinding lightning flash and Maxine Peake slammed onto the stage her face ten inches from mine, consumed with an unspeakable intensity and ferocity. In this re-envisioning of Car…
It begins in darkness. Not a cold negative darkness. But a warm velvety one. A sound like clapping is heard. But the rhythm is complex, stuttering, syncopated, pulsing like a message " a mes…
It begins in darkness. Not a cold negative darkness. But a warm velvety one. A sound like clapping is heard. But the rhythm is complex, stuttering, syncopated, pulsing like a message " a mes…
There was a blinding lightning flash and Maxine Peake slammed onto the stage her face ten inches from mine, consumed with an unspeakable intensity and ferocity. In this re-envisioning of Car…
The Royal Opera House has bowed to growing pressure and toned down a gang-rape scene so that the principal actress will no longer appear naked in its production of Guillaume Tell.
The mass booing that greeted the gang-rape scene at the first night of the Royal Opera's production of Rossini's Guillaume Tell this week might almost lead one to believe that extreme, and a…
Buckle up your Aston Martin seatbelt.
Damon Albarn set high expectations for his new musical Wonder.land. Perhaps too high.
"All women dress like their mothers, that is their tragedy. No man ever does. That is his." So declares a schoolmaster in drag during the lovely Wildean pastiche in Alan Bennett's Fo…
Jamie xx, aka Jamie Smith, wears a lot of musical hats: he is one third of the Mercury Prize-winning group the xx; producer to mega pop stars such as Alicia Keys, Drake and Rihanna; and remi…
Choreographics, in which the dancers of English National Ballet create their own works, is a place for experiment. This year's programme, which took post-war America as its theme, had a live…
Think of the actor David Suchet, and for many, the quizzical face of Hercule Poirot pops up: the long-running series of Agatha Christie adaptations may have come to an end in 2013, but love …
JK Rowling has announced that a new chapter in her Harry Potter books charting the Boy Who Lived's pre-Hogwarts years is set to arrive in the form of a stage play next year.
This is the most irresistibly joyous musical-theatre make-over of a much-loved movie since Billy Eliot. It does more for genuine Girl Power in the span of an evening than an eternity of Viva…
The temporary jetty at Greenwich peninsula, where last year The Boy Who Climbed out of his Face was staged, now hosts a production by new theatre company Zebedee, set in a purpose-built, run…
What will the Dowager Countess make of plans to turn Downton Abbey into a musical? A scheme to transfer the most stiffly British drama on television into a stage show after it ends later thi…
It is less than two months until the Edinburgh Festival begins. A time when those previously mentally stable lose control as they chase elusive 5-star reviews. I am a comedian and for years …
Belarusian dissidents granted political asylum in the UK have revealed they are still being harassed and targeted by the repressive regime in their home country, 10 years after they formed a…
It would be a shame if the title put you off. Stephen Adly Guirgis's characters may use the f-word (and related profanities) almost as often as they draw breath, but this Tony-nominated play…
The dearth of stage parts for older actors has long been lamented. Now one 87-year-old is doing something to address the problem.
Controversial theatre veteran Steven Berkoff has attacked a critic for "warbling" about "how fortunate we are that actors no longer black-up" for roles.
"Can we just say we're completely pro sex."Â The physical theatre company,RashDash, who are collaborating here with playwright Alice Birch, have not mounted this turbulent challenge to po…
The days when it was thought acceptable for a white actor to black up as Othello are well behind us. But Lucian Msamati makes theatrical history now in being the first black actor ever to pl…