As the final strands of the Captain's sanity unravel towards the close of August Strindberg's The Father, the titular patriarch takes us on a grand tour of literary female infidelity. "It's …
Canadian dramatist Brad Fraser has never been a respecter of the pieties. His story of the relationship between Joey, a severely physically disabled 17-year-old, and his widower father Jake,…
Investigators are sifting through the ashes at Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) today looking for clues to what started the huge fire that ripped through the grade II listed building.
An enormous fire has broken out at Battersea Arts Centre in South London.
Maxine Peake has described watching herself playing Hamlet as "completely traumatic" and said it took her a couple of days to get over it.
Maxine Peake has described watching herself playing Hamlet as "completely traumatic" and said it took her a couple of days to get over it.
If Shakespeare were alive today, what would he be writing about? Would it be fairy queens, Scottish kings and star-crossed lovers, or would it be mortgages, stamp duty and the house price bu…
The Young Vic, which was established by the National Theatre to promote experimental plays for young audiences, has eclipsed its mother organisation at this year's Olivier Awards.
Lesley Manville and James McAvoy have announced the nominations for this year's Olivier Awards, celebrating the best in theatre.
Into a black gauze cube, Harry Melling drops from the ceiling to a burst of loud dance music. It may only be a couple of metres squared, but Melling will rattle around in this cage effective…
London Underground has banned a poster for the play Bad Jews after it ruled it may cause "widespread or serious offence".
On paper, this is a de luxe proposition. Sophocles' play is one of the greatest and most inextricably unresolvable of Greek tragedies.
Larry David co-created Seinfeld and starred in and wrote Curb Your Enthusiasm. Between those two landmark TV comedies he wrote and directed Sour Grapes, a dire, almost unwatchable film, abou…
Bruce Willis is finally set to make his Broadway debut later this year in the stage adaptation of Misery by horror writer Stephen King.
This new Romeo and Juliet dearly wants to be a pop video. That's not a bad ambition, but it's nowhere near the sophistication of good commercial dance. Piling up music from Vivaldi to Jay Z …
It is a rainy Sunday afternoon in Bradford and three teenage girls are pummelling heavy punchbags that hang from the ceiling of Huggy's Boxing Gym. "Your punches are fine but I want to see a…
You can't put a price on comedy as David Brent famously said in The Office " although it seems Delfont Mackintosh would disagree.
Larry David has got himself into a jam. He went to a funeral and saw something funny in it, so he spun the experience into a play. He didn't know how it would turn out and he certainly d…
Our understanding of dance is strangely segregated.
You've played a number of monumental female roles " Winnie in Happy Days, Hedda Gabler, Cressida, Isabella in Measure for Measure. Which have you felt you got to know the best?
Canadian dramatist Brad Fraser has never been a respecter of the pieties. His story of the relationship between Joey, a severely physically disabled 17 year old, and his widower father J…
You don't necessarily expect to be treated to the distinctive tones of Kirsty Young at the start of a marathon Shaw revival. Simon Godwin's remarkably assured and effervescent modern-dre…
Steam spirals into the air from a swimming pool, squatting in the centre of The Yard's hip warehouse-like space. The water's reflections play hypnotically against the whitewashed walls.
Katie Brayben's last stage role was as the ghost of Princess Diana in King Charles III. She's now elevated to the more substantial ranks of pop royalty as Carole King in this Tony Award-winn…
It may be seventeen years since Closer premiered in London, but Patrick Marber's four-hander about love, sex and relationships still has the power to wound. We meet, with almost coldly mathe…