All my plays have failed in a way They are all have bits where I can hear my voice too clearly, or the narrative doesn't work, or the overall image is incoherent. But failure means I've got …
Soon after the Jimmy Savile scandal broke, a film editor at the BBC was given an unusual task. He was instructed to edit every trace of the presenter out of every edition of Top of the Pops …
If you think of circus shows as pure spectacle - think again. Shelter Me is the new show from Circumference, whose mission is to "to take circus as an artform and to use it to express a soci…
The tall sash windows of the panelled room afford an imposing view of St Paul's dome. Distant sounds of the chanting and cheering demonstrators waft up. It's October 2011 and Occupy …
George Farquhar's 1707 play is both a late Restoration romp and a proto-feminist piece that scrutinises marital misery from the enslaved wife's point of view, extraordinarily ahead of its ti…
Andrew Lloyd Webber defends himself and his fellow West End theatre owners and impresarios today over the cost of London theatre tickets. And he warns that ticket prices may have to increase further.
Thanks to Tim Gowen on RATM for the link!
Why are critics portrayed as handsome hunks in Hollywood films but seedy creeps on the stage?
Mark Rylance is absurdly funny in David Hirson's rhyming-couplet costume comedy, but typically he lets you see the insecurity beneath the swagger
Acclaimed by some as the best since Olivier, but derided by others for being 'as nutty as a fruitcake', the iconoclastic actor says pleasure is the secret behind his success
Writer's support for Belarusian theatre has put him up at loggerheads with an autocratic regime
Handsomely designed and engagingly acted, they don't emerge as a joint revelation and fail to add up to more than the sum of their parts.
If it's a hit on the telly, the chances are it will soon be coming to a theatre near you
Howard Davies gets the best from a superb cast in his faultless revival of Arthur Miller's classic 1947 tragedy
This new musical stinks to high heaven
Nearly half a century after the films that turned her into a screen legend, the star with the purest of voices has a new stage show. And if cruel fortune has stopped her singing quite like s…
The afterlife of a sex god can be tricky. But the man who decorated a zillion bedroom walls has not been idle, and is about to open in his own West End show. Andrew Johnson meets David Essex
Embattled Bard's on to a real winner