Prriyanka Bose was on holiday in Kerala when the news broke that a young woman had been gang raped on a bus in Delhi. It was 16 December 2012 and, as the first details of the horrific attack…
I did think immediately, 'I don't want to do a piece about posh people and frocks'," says Maria Friedman, recalling her initial reaction to Kevin Spacey's offer of directing the Cole Porter …
The Royal Opera House must be hoping that ballet audiences are not afraid of Virginia Woolf. On Monday the curtain rises on the choreographer Wayne McGregor's first full-length narrative wor…
The royal opera house must be hoping that ballet audiences are not afraid of Virginia Woolf. On Monday the curtain rises on the choreographer Wayne McGregor's first full-length narrative wor…
Peter Morgan has updated the script for The Audience to reflect the results of yesterday's General Election and HMQ inviting Conservative Party leader David Cameron to form a new government.
Playwright James Graham is the very much the man of the hour - literally, if you're reading this review on 7 May while waiting for election news. His play The Vote, at the Donmar, is also sh…
Just one actor in 10 comes from a working-class background according to new research which appears to back up claims by stars such as Julie Walters, David Morrissey, Samuel West and Judi Den…
We're on the brink of discovering who our next prime minister will be, a royal princess has just been born… it seems the perfect time to revive Peter Morgan's hit play, staging the private…
One of the joys of Breakin' Convention is its sheer range. The international festival of hip hop dance goes from sharp political theatre to child-friendly workshops and the rock star glamour…
Three casual workers arrive for the night shift at a meat factory. There's hard-faced Becky (Victoria Moseley), timid, dowdy Susan (Kristin Hutchinson) and Grace (Janet Etuk), forced into em…
Maya Plisetskaya, regarded as one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century and whose career at Russia's Bolshoi Theatre spanned more than 35 years, has died aged 89.
Can a subject be too interesting for drama? That was playwright James Phillips's fear when he began to think about the life of the late great, fashion iconoclast Alexander McQueen. For thoug…
Artistic director of the innovative Cornwall-based Kneehigh theatre company has landed the top job at Shakespeare's Globe in London.
Jonathan Munby's clear-headed production of The Merchant of Venice treads a fine line between solid and sparkling: there's no flashy concept, but there are flashes of directorial insight.
7"75, the first dance work by theatre director Amy Hodge, starts with a very cheery image. Her cast of five female performers, aged from seven to 75, hula-hoop joyfully to Chuck Berry. Hoops…
It's a role that has attracted the likes of Al Pacino, Robert Duvall and William H Macy. Now, the part of Teach " the most driven of the three small-time hustlers in David Mamet's 1975 play,…
Helen Mirren has been nominated for a Tony award for her performance as the Queen in The Audience.
When Inua Ellams was 15, his family moved from England to Dublin. "Back then Dublin was, how shall I put it, at a youthful stage in its race relations," Ellams says elegantly. "They had thes…
Harper Lee has rescued a production of her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird after a dispute threatened to end performances of the play in the author's hometown.
A controversial play about the shooting of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown will still be going ahead tonight despite the departure of half of the cast, according to the show's director.
Tom Sturridge is an actor who's so far been better known for his relationships with his fiancée, Sienna Miller, and his best friend, Robert Pattinson, than for his own acting CV, but that c…
The arts aren't an add-on We have a real problem with the double squeeze of Arts Council cuts and local authority cuts. Ultimately the problems in today's society " truancy, crime, ill healt…
Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée, one of The Royal Ballet's signature works, is a springtime delight. This performance was gorgeously led by star ballerina Natalia Osipova and Steven …
The head of the beleaguered English National Opera (ENO) has vowed to protect the company's full-time musicians after Arts Council England suggested they could be dropped to save money.
The setting is the same Connecticut seashore home as in the angst-ridden Long Day's Journey Into Night. But the mood of Eugene O'Neill's earlier semi-autobiographical play is surprisingly hu…