Mark Rylance's many triumphs at Shakespeare's Globe are legendary. Now, just as a wider television audience is waking up to his genius through Wolf Hall, he makes his acting debut at the the…
I cannot easily explain why a line about the long-defunct group Modern Romance always being "impeccably turned out" convulsed me and the rest of the audience at the Little Theatre, Leicester…
I cannot easily explain why a line about the long-defunct group Modern Romance always being "impeccably turned out" convulsed me and the rest of the audience at the Little Theatre, Leicester…
Renowned Royal Shakespeare Company actor Alan Howard has died aged 77 after suffering from pneumonia.
George Bernard Shaw's play may be entitled Man and Superman, but I've just met its superwoman. A new production of this rarely performed play opens at the National Theatre next week, directe…
Miss Saigon's blockbuster return to the West End swept the board at this year's What's On Stage Awards.
Ethnic minority performers took home the four main musical acting prizes at the WhatOnStage awards tonight " to the delight of diversity campaigners.
Helen Mirren has described the Royal Family as "aliens".
Never have I seen such explicit things done with an old sock or a little finger. Nor have I heard so many different names for the male sexual organ, though in the Bristol Old Vic's new produ…
Horror on the stage can be a risky business. Liz Lochhead's feminist Dracula at Keswick was excellent but just didn't draw the audiences last year. The Mist in the Mirror, Susan Hill's seque…
While it will be hard to ignore the headlines when three-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper's The Elephant Man hits the London stage in May, this low-budget version by Fourth Monkey Ensemble …
Ukranian ballet dancer Sergei Polunin has performed his stunning visual interpretation of Hozier's "Take Me To Church" and it's so good, you have to see it to believe it.
Some companies bring in "artists in residence" to boost creativity in the workplace. But in a reversal of that trend, three of the UK's biggest artistic organisations are now recruiting "dat…
The casting of real-life couples can be relied on to impart a frisson " whether for good or ill. Take the art-mirroring life volatility of the Burton/Taylor relationship. Great for W…
Crystal Pite to the rescue! The Canadian choreographer's A Picture of You Falling is the gem of this programme of works by associate artists of Sadler's Wells. A crisp, unsettling duet, it o…
Sir Michael Gambon has announced his retirement from the stage because he can no longer recall his lines.
The enterprising Faction company are committed to staging the complete Schiller canon. They now turn their attention to his take on Joan of Arc in this compelling, starkly stripped-back, mod…
It has a worldwide reputation for showcasing the best acting talent, but the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest project seeks to uncover a musical star.
History is always a way of looking at the present It's more detached than if you write a play about a revolution happening now [Wertenbaker's new play, Jefferson's Garden, is about the Ameri…
She's sent Miley Cyrus down a slide shaped like a tongue and staged the Olympic Closing Ceremony on the Union Jack. She's won an Olivier award for setting Lucy Kirkwood's play Chimerica in a…
Police in Vienna have arrested a man for persistently sneaking into expensive seats in the city's prestigious State Opera.
"Full of sound and fury"? Well, certainly full of sound in this radical, 75 minute re-imagining of Shakespeare's darkest tragedy by Filter, a company celebrated for their irreverent, penetra…
Director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and his Parisian company, Theatre de la Ville, present their luminous, dream-like yet sharp-witted and swiftly-paced production (performed in French with Engli…
From The Audience, starring Helen Mirren, to the multi-award-winning Chimerica, new drama packed in theatre-goers in 2013, despite experts' fears that many would opt for safer choices "in th…
Something improbable " one might even say downright unlikely " has happened in the West End this past month. Cats, the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber behemoth, which bowed out of the capit…