Political theatre is changing. Once, it was all agit-prop and state-of-the-nation plays. It campaigned or it caught the mood. Those forms are alive and well in 2015. Think of Jack Thorne lam…
The highly anticipated musical version to Groundhog Day has finally been confirmed for Broadway after over a year of rumours.
Denis Healey once compared an attack by Geoffrey Howe to "being savaged by a dead sheep." Sir Geoffrey later showed that there was steel beneath the woolly exterior when he made his resignat…
Three Mills Studios, tucked away behind the A12 in Bromley-by-Bow, is a former water mill that has been transformed into a busy film, TV and rehearsal complex, apparently the largest in Lond…
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It's the centenary of Arthur Miller's birth and you can't accuse the Royal Shakespeare Company of not marking the occasion as prominently as possible. The Bard has been obliged to budge over…
Lonny Price's semi-staging of Sondheim's masterpiece " a version of which was unveiled in New York last year -Â comes to the English National Opera with Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson repri…
Russia's culture minister has fired the director of a Siberian theatre, after his modern staging of Wagner's opera Tannhauser offended members of the country's powerful Orthodox Church.
The playwright's RSC production, Oppenheimer, about "father of the atom bomb" J Robert Oppenheimer, transferred last week to the Vaudeville Theatre after a sell-out run in Stratford-upon-Avo…
The president of Norway's parliament has spoken out against secrecy and alleged fraud in British offshore finance, as he lifts the lid on his 10-year battle to secure control over a £22m …
The man accused by Russia's conservative cultural establishment of being one of the country's most degenerate playwrights is eyeing a tall, blond beer. His name is Yuri Klavdiev and in the a…
Let's face it, there 's never exactly been a surfeit of musicals that focus on misunderstood intellectuals " especially not the kind of undervalued thinker that hails from Leicester and …
Gala occasions don't often have such warmth. Across a programme of new works, highlights and fine musical choices, the first gala for the Ann Maguire Arts Education Fund was fluently staged …
Where better to serve up an unnervingly intimate site-specific version of Sondheim's gory masterpiece than a working old-fashioned pie shop?Â
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will be adapted from the West End to the silver screen, Sony Pictures has confirmed.
Mel Brooks did not have to say a word to get the crowd on its feet. The applause as he walked on went on for minutes; there was an ovation in the stalls before the visiting American comedian…
Shakespeare depicted him as a king, a hunchback and a Machiavellian-style baddie who ordered the death of his own brother.
There is an awkward moment when Kathryn Reed Altman enters a room in the Mayfair Hotel. I'd just been telling Ron Mann, who has made Altman, a documentary on her husband of 47 years, that I'…
Birmingham Royal Ballet visit London in force, with thundering chorus for David Bintley's pop staging of Carmina Burana and dancers sweeping across the stage in George Balanchine's Serenade.…
Dame Judi Dench is set to star with her daughter in a ground-breaking polling station play that will be aired live on TV on election night.
In what must surely be the most "fetch" news of the day, it has been revealed that Tina Fey's upcoming Mean Girls musical is "60 per cent" complete.
Poor John Ford. As if Shakespeare wasn't a hard enough act to follow, the Jacobean playwright now has to follow a performance by the all-conquering Mark Rylance who starred in the previous p…
Hugh Jackman has been forced to cancel his one-man stage show in Turkey after falling ill.
How many times have you seen a production of a bio-play about an author where the leading actor has managed to persuade you of virtually everything but the crucial fact that he or she could …
Freshly chalked in block capitals on the blackboard outside, a small but proud symbol of defiance, were the words "WE ARE OPEN".