The Crucible, Old Vic, review: 'The intensity of a thriller'
This new staging of Arthur Miller's great play, starring Richard Armitage, is electrifying, says Charles Spencer
This new staging of Arthur Miller's great play, starring Richard Armitage, is electrifying, says Charles Spencer
The South African who reinvented Miss Julie to stunning effect has turned her attention to Arthur Miller's modern classic about the Salem witch trials, which opens at the Old Vic this we…
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Krapp trapped in a shed? As an associate director of Sheffield Theatres, Richard Wilson has directed several plays in the Crucible Studio over the past three yea…
The Crucible first came into my consciousness as a 13-year-old, living in the white suburbs of South Africa in the mid-Eighties. Apartheid was in its most violent throes. The government decl…
I've seen lots of gripping productions at the Old Vic since Kevin Spacey took it over, and before. This revival of Arthur Miller's classic play by the South African director Yael Farber may …
Pictures have been released showing Hobbit star rehearsing for the soon to open Miller play
Jonathan Humphreys' adaptation of Camoletti's classic French farce takes off in Sheffield.
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: One man, three fiancees - that's the starting point of Marc Camoletti's consummate sixties farce in which debonair Parisian architect Robert juggles th…
Jack Ellis, William Gaunt and Adrian Schiller will join Richard Armitage in the cast of The Crucible, which will run at the Old Vic this summer. Ellis, who is best known for his role in̷…
Full casting has been announced for a new production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible that begins performances at London's Old Vic June 21 prior to an official opening July 3.
Richard Armitage will be the latest big screen actor to take to the London stage when he stars in a new production of The Crucible in June.
Armitage will join in the principal cast by Anna Madeley and Samantha Colley
Armitage will be joined in the principal cast by Anna Madeley and Samantha Colley
Richard Armitage, best known for playing Thorin Oakenshield, leader of the Dwarves, in "The Hobbit" film trilogy and the villain Heinz Kruger in "Captain America: The First Av…
Richard Armitage is to star in the Old Vic's new production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Armitage, who will play John Proctor, has recently found fame as Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit…
The screen star, looks set to play John Proctor in Yael Farber's production when it opens in June, according to the Mail
The gritty story of life on a 1960s housing estate in the South Yorkshire coalfield is among the more unlikely subjects to be turned into a balletic, dance-theatre production.
Barry Hines' much-loved 1968 novel, A Kestrel for a Knave, is reimagined in this dance-theatre adaptation.
Daniel Evans' production opens in December as part of the newly announced autumn/winter season
Daniel Evans, artistic director of Sheffield Theatres and currently represented in the West End by the transfer of his Sheffield production of The Full Monty to the Noel Coward, has announce…
"Such was the darkness of that day . . . that we walked in the clouds, and could not see our way." So wrote the Rev. John Hale, looking back ruefully on his involvement in the …
OLD IRELAND: PLAYFUL, POWERFUL, INTENSE AND TRAGIC A hot summer at harvest's end, 1836. Outside a stone barn in County Donegal  old Jimmy-Jack is chortling naughtily over the …
English Touring Theatre's revival of Brian Friel's 1980 classic is pitch perfect, says Dominic Cavendish
SONYA AND ANDREY: A BRIEF ENCOUNTER BY FRIEL Two lonely middle-aged people meet in a cheap Moscow café in 1920: she frowning over accounts and mortgages, he in frayed evening cl…
Sheffield Theatres' Brian Friel season continues with a "gripping and vibrant" production of his 1980 play, Translations.