Backstage, the splurge guns are all lined up and the pedal car is parked in the wings. When the pedalling and splurging begin in earnest, the first major stage production of Bugsy Malone …
Kevin Spacey's 11 successful years at The Old Vic brought a touch of Hollywood glamour to Waterloo " but his successor will launch his first season in charge with a pledge to be a little mor…
Rising star George MacKay, 23, is rehearsing in a giant sandpit for his latest role, playing troubled teenager Richard Miller in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at the Young Vic. "Practical…
In an age where reputations are won and lost at the click of an iPhone, Richard Sheridan's The School for Scandal is a canny choice for a revival at the Tobacco Factory.
The abuse of power is an ever-topical theme, though one that is itself open to mistreatment by axe-grinding, opportunistic directors. But in this stunning account of Measure for Measure …
Sir Kenneth Branagh has gone from treading the boards of the West End to being an internationally acclaimed director, in demand in Hollywood after blockbuster hits like Cinderella and Thor.
The chief executive of the National Theatre has shocked the British arts world by stepping down just six months into the job.
Samuel Beckett plays afford ample opportunity for wild experimentation but a possible first will occur at this year's Happy Days Beckett Festival in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland when a pr…
With the lucrative successes of Matilda the Musical and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory still going strong in the West End, you might have thought that jumping on the Roald Dahl bandwagon …
"EAT ME", "DRINK ME": the words are scrawled in white paint on a dark purple wall in front of me. Beneath my feet is a chequered floor and in front are two black doors, one is huge, and the …
"EAT ME", "DRINK ME": the words are scrawled in white paint on a dark purple wall in front of me. Beneath my feet is a chequered floor and in front are two black doors, one is huge, and the …
David Bowie fans can look forward to some new songs that "sound like classics" in his upcoming stage show Lazarus.
Voters of tomorrow are to be tracked for a decade in a ground-breaking theatre project set up to chart the changing world views of British school children, ahead of their first chance to cas…
Britain's biggest theatre awards returned to celebrate the great and the good of the performing arts world.
The five-times Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury added an Olivier award to her collection for the play that brought her back to the London stage for the first time in 40 years.
The Olivier Awards 2015 winners:
Is 9/11 fit matter for opera? Although Stockhausen provocatively declared that the destruction of the Twin Towers had a Satanic beauty, composers have fought shy of the topic.
"What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays." So opens The Twits, and boy, did Roald Dahl get that right. What would he have made of today's hirsute hipsters, one wonders. The w…
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"We could have been anything that we wanted to be," sang the young cast of the 1976 movie Bugsy Malone. For some, it was a prophecy of sorts. Jodie Foster, who played gangster's moll Tallula…
A Pakistani activist who dances in defiance of the Taliban has choreographed a new work in the UK which tackles the issue of so-called "honour killings".Â
Who is Britain's greatest living playwright? Tom Stoppard has often been bestowed with this honour, as he was, again, in the barrage of press marking his comeback play The Hard Problem earli…
The Oliviers return on Sunday 12 April at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden - follow our live blog for updates throughout the ceremony.
A lost play once claimed to be by Shakespeare but subsequently poo-pooed as a forgery, is now "strongly" believed to be genuine according to new research.
Britain's dance schools churn out performers who "lack rigour, technique and skills", forcing choreographers to recruit from overseas, it has been claimed.