This rambunctious fringe musical serves up a fascinating true story with charm and pizazz In a purgatorial summer, this boisterous, camp and chaotically charming musical is a tonic. It's a w…
Physical-theatre company Gecko's debut feature film is compelling and technically skilled Missing the office? Or are you dreading the day you have to return? What's your relationship to the …
A stinging duet from 'A Little Night Music' has a savagely funny power "Whipped cream with knives" is how Harold Prince, who directed the Broadway premiere of A Little Night Music in 1973, …
Since receiving acclaim for playing Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Paapa Essiedu has appeared in the West End and on TV.
The heroine seizes the mic in this Shakespeare-inspired jukebox musical It's bright, it's brash, it's a gazillion times camper than Christmas: but is it such stuff as theatrical hits are mad…
Claire Foy and Matt Smith elevate Duncan Macmillan's rather toothless parenting drama Playing our monarch and her husband in The Crown has made actors Claire Foy and Matt Smith into TV drama…
As she makes her directorial debut as artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith, Rachel O'Riordan talks to Sam Marlowe about her unorthodox
Much happens in this ingenious drama by African-American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that is far from appropriate. And the play itself is an
Director and playwright Lynette Linton stepped into Madani Younis shoes as artistic director of the Bush last year. She tells Sam Marlowe
This drama about political protest in Chinese-oppressed Tibet, written by the Bangalore-based playwright Abhishek Majumdar, has had a difficult journey to the
Full disclosure: I haven't read Harriet Lane's debut novel Alys, Always, so I can't tell you if it's any good. What I
Women, as everyone knows, have no body hair. We are naturally smaller, quieter and more polite than men. We like nothing better
With a reputation for tackling tricky texts, the director is about to open the rarely performed Timon of Athens in Stratford-upon-Avon. As
Debbie Tucker Green doesn't so much write plays as construct intricate theatrical architecture out of language. With Ear for Eye, she goes
How far would you go for your friends " and what if you suspected everything they'd ever told you was a lie?
It's a twilight romance wrapped in a bloody fist, and an epic tragedy of avarice, exploitation and thirst for power. Simon Godwin's
Sharp of tooth and riddled with a clawing dread, Dawn King's 2011 rural drama is a fierce and fabulous beast. An intriguing
After a gore soaked Duchess of Malfi at the RSC, Maria Aberg is bringing the 'very silly' Little Shop of Horrors to
Indira Varma says success is 'just fucking luck'. Currently appearing in Ionesco's Exit the King at the National, the actor, best known
Dread explodes into horrific reality. Two bombs " one in a club,another outside a bar " rip bloody holes in London. We
Most of us know her, with her crisp Morningside accent, her lemony aphorisms and her elegant eccentricity, from Maggie Smith's Oscar-winning performance
Since her five-year tenure as co-artistic director of London's Gate Theatre, during which she championed women writers, the director has forged a
"The world's gone nuts, so best of luck!" trill the seductive quartet of performers in this captivating cabaret " a message of
The chameleon actor made her mark with a string of lauded lead performances including Lady Macbeth and Medea. Ahead of starring in
Here's a prospect to make you blush, giggle and squirm. We're ushered into a boudoir, a sugar-pink Barbara Cartland confection of cushions,