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…
Benedict Cumberbatch deserves thanks for dipping his toe into the troubled waters of broadcasting diversity. He raised the thorny issue of his black acting friends not getting the same oppor…
On 14 April 2010, three weeks before the general election, David Hare was on stage for a Platform talk at the Lyttelton Theatre and spoke of a frustrating failure. His play The Absen…
When you get older, love becomes much simpler You weather the storms. You've been through a lot, you know what you're looking for, and you're more tolerant " you're not expecting perfection.
Many a professional dancer could only dream of such an opportunity: to perform in front of a sold-out crowd at London's esteemed Sadler's Wells, with a personal introduction by one of contem…
Brian Blessed has withdrawn from a production of Shakepeare's King Lear, a week after collapsing on stage.
You don't arm yourself with pompous critical criteria when you go to a show advertising itself as a cabaret opera in the vaults underneath Waterloo station. You take your pleasure as it come…
James McAvoy delivers a performance of brilliant antic bravura as the Earl with the Messiah complex in Jamie Lloyd's full-blast production of Peter Barnes's 1968 black comedy.
Maxine Peake's acclaimed turn as Hamlet in Shakespeare's iconic tragedy is coming to a cinema near you this spring.
A group of trailer homes huddle under a huge sky, snow sleeted up against their sides. Belgian collective Peeping Tom's 32 rue Vandenbranden shows stylised behaviour against a hyperreal set.…
Joel Grey, the actor who won an Oscar for his stunning performance alongside Liza Minelli in Cabaret, has just come out as gay. Here's why his admission is so inspiring.
Tom Stoppard's first new stage play in 9 years; Nicholas Hytner's last production as a great artistic director of the National Theatre. I wish I could say that The Hard Problem rises triumph…
It may be the story of two brothers at the head of the Mughal Empire in 1659, whose sibling rivalry is stoked by a favouritist father into fratricide, but Dara is more than a family drama. T…
The Almeida Theatre has continued its extraordinary run of critical successes, after King Charles III won best new play at The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, the venue's second in a row aft…
The Almeida Theatre has continued its extraordinary run of critical successes, after King Charles III won best new play at The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, the venue's in a row after Chim…
Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory has been named Best Actress at this year's Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.
During the winter of 1997, I was playing Peter Pan at the National Theatre in London when a script arrived for me at the stage door. It had come from the Royal Court Theatre, which had decam…
During the winter of 1997, I was playing Peter Pan at the National Theatre in London when a script arrived for me at the stage door. It had come from the Royal Court Theatre, which had decam…
As the doomed friend of a Byronic anti-hero, Vadim Muntagirov dances with lyrical freshness and immediacy. Making his debut as Lensky, he helps to lift this Royal Ballet revival of John Cran…
The dancer daughter of a teacher stabbed to death in a Leeds classroom last year is to perform in a gala hosted by Darcey Bussell to raise money for a charity set up in her mother's name.
He's worked on some of the greatest Disney hits songs of all time.
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling is as much a pitch-black comedy as a tragedy, the grisly plot of murder, adultery and deceit shot through with comic business. Dominic Dr…
To be the lead in a new Tom Stoppard play " his first in nearly a decade " at the National Theatre, in the final, big-finish production by artistic director, Sir Nicholas Hytner … well, it…
Have dramas about tormented scientists ever been more in vogue? After Turing and Hawking on screen, the Royal Shakespeare Company has put J Robert Oppenheimer on stage. Playwright Tom Morton…
In a few weeks, Beautiful, based on the life and songs of Carole King, becomes the latest jukebox musical to hit the West End.