An intriguing bit of casting might just make Iqbal Khan's new production of Othello at Stratford-upon-Avon feel " in the words of RSC artistic director Gregory Doran " "freshly minted": not …
Crystal Maze presenter Richard O'Brien will be involved in the reboot of the popular Nineties show when it returns as a live immersive experience in central London later this year.Â
"We live in a dystopia now." So claims playwright Dawn King.
It's a pleasure to report that Patrick Marber, author of such Nineties classics as Dealer's Choice and Closer, has overcome a nasty and protracted case of writer's block and is back at the N…
Cashing in on misery? Insensitive to the victims? Too soon after the traumatic revelations? In advance of its premiere Jonathan Maitland's play has been accused of all these things. But it e…
Cashing in on misery? Insensitive to the victims? Too soon after the traumatic revelations? In advance of its premiere Jonathan Maitland's play has been accused of all these things. But it e…
One of notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile's victims has described a play about the late DJ as "uncanny" and said the she felt "quite unwell" while watching.
Arthur Miller's centenary year continues with a real coup " the world premiere of a screenplay, written in 1950 at the height of his powers, which he withdrew rather give in to political pre…
"I wrote that play as a warning to myself " then ignored my own warning." Patrick Marber is talking about Howard Katz, a play he wrote in 2001 in which a 50-year old man has a midlife crisis…
Liam (beautifully portrayed by David Moorst) is a geeky 17-year-old " a fastidious mummy's boy whose mother has recently died. With nowhere else to go till he gets his A Levels, he's been fo…
In his story "The Library of Babel", the Latin American writer Jorge Luis Borges postulates the idea that there exists in the universe a library that holds all the books that ever have or ev…
As Alex Sharp stood on the winner's podium in New York, Tony theatre award in hand, he must have been tempted to blow a raspberry at Britain's biggest drama schools.
The Almeida launches its six-month season devoted to ancient Greek drama with Robert Icke's daring and deeply disquieting free adaptation of the Oresteia.
Sunday night's Tony Awards saw Brits Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe leave with acting gongs, but while all the honouring of the best of Broadway was going on, a lot else was happening besid…
British actors Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe will be bringing home Tony Awards after winning major gongs early on in the New York ceremony last night.
British actors Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe were early winners at the 69th Tony Awards on Sunday night amid high expectations for UK artists.
Carey Mulligan, Helen Mirren and Ruth Wilson are hoping to bring home a Tony Award for Britain tonight after being nominated for the Best Actress in a Play award.
It may be on the other side of the world, but one corner of Argentina is surprisingly, decidedly Welsh: in the Chubut Province in Patagonia, you're as likely to hear "bore da" as "buenos dia…
It was known as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' " the first tunnel under a river, in this case the River Thames. Built by Marc Brunel, and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Thames Tunne…
Casts of the Lion King and Aladdin have treated frustrated air passengers to an impromptu sing-off during a six-hour delay in the US.
Buckets, as in bucket lists " those inventories of things we want to do before we die. Adam Barnard's kaleidoscopic, darkly playful and witty piece muses on our human awareness that time is …
Political theatre doesn't have to be angry new writing taking pot shots at David Cameron; a good story can always layer up meaning and resonance. So it is with the work of James Dacre, artis…
"At the end of the day, it's just porn." Pandora Blake shrugs and eats a mouthful of scrambled egg. We're having breakfast in a small café off Tottenham Court Road. Blake, a feminist porn p…
Bradley Cooper is every bit as good as the vast majority of reviewers claimed when Scott Ellis's fine production opened on Broadway last December. There had been banter beforehand about the …
The soil of Mother Russia takes centre stage in this intensely passionate and compellingly original reworking of Tolstoy's epic love story. At the key moments the actors take in turns to sta…