Chariots of Fire star Ben Cross, now playing the mysterious Rabbit in HBO’s TV series Banshee, talks to Ben Dowell about his habit of playing bad guys and how his work has led to a life ou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMTrafalgar Studios, London: The idea that Harold Pinter developed his beliefs about the horror of unchecked state power later in his career can be swept away by this 1958 work (which premiere…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMDonmar Warehouse, London: Finbar (Risteard Cooper), the big fish entrepreneur, had a lot going for him when he swaggered into the small pond of his local village pub when this play premiered…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMLyttelton, National Theatre, London: Director Howard Davies and translator Andrew Upton who (among other successful collaborations) brought Bulgakov's The White Guard to vivid and scint…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMDuchess, London: A double bill of Alan Bennett reflections couldn't have been more at home at the National Theatre. But what about this transfer to the commercial bear pit of the West E…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMActor Alex Jennings stopped the curtain call applause at the Duchess Theatre last night to recall his old friend and colleague Richard Griffiths and ask the audience to applaud him. Deliveri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMAlmeida, London: Full marks to the Almeida for reviving this brilliantly modulated 1949 play, based on Maugham's 1926 story about a widow returning from Africa and intent on marrying be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMGarrick Theatre, London: That this short, two-man parody of all seven Harry Potter books has been touring successfully for seven years is down to many things - though not perhaps to the orig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMGielgud Theatre, London: Oscar-nominated writer Peter Morgan clearly has a thing for the Queen. His hit 2006 film portrayed a royal family at a time of crisis, when the death of Diana threat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMJerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: Young writer Anna Wakulik's new play shows too often its roots in a 2011 Royal Court workshop on the Polish experience, with all the theme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMHe played Tom in BBC comedy and also starred in shows such as Ever Decreasing Circles and Monarch Of The Glen
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMActor Arsher Ali has declined offers of work since the summer partly because he is “sick” of being offered scripts which typecast Asians as terrorists. Ali, who plays a suspected terrori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMVaudeville Theatre, London: In this stage re-imagining of Dickens' classic, all the action takes place with Miss Havisham's dusty living room as the backdrop - an eerie, ghostlike …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMTrafalgar Studios, London: "I annihilate you," observes Leo Bill's faltering German officer Werner to the old man who has been forced to take him in to his cottage during the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMJudi Dench lobbied unsuccessfully to persuade former BBC director general Mark Thompson to abandon the practice of squeezing programme credits more than five years ago, The Stage can reveal.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMHampstead, London: The influx of so many Poles to Britain in recent years was bound to be felt in theatreland sooner or later and it is welcome to have this particular immigrant experience e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMAmbassadors Theatre, London: Last Christmas this venue played host to a rather flat kid's show about Father Christmas. This year's effort is more successful, assured and thought ou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMTricycle Theatre, London: This production of Mary Zimmerman's 1994 take on the wonderful fables from the Islamic Golden Age is not the first Arabian Nights I have seen staged. But it is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMLyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London: First performed in 2008 and now debuting in the West End, this is another successful Tall Stories bid to negotiate the tricky task of being creativ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMLeicester Square Theatre, London: Returning to the West End for a short Christmas run, this is a delightful, simply-staged show for young children. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMRoyal Albert Hall, London: Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, One Direction, Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Andrea Bocelli, Alicia Keys, Placido Domingo and comedians Rhod Gilbert and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMRoyal Albert Hall, London: Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, One Direction, Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Andrea Bocelli, Alicia Keys, Placido Domingo and comedians Rhod Gilbert and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMApollo Theatre, London: This all-male production was always going to be notable for the addition of a superstar Malvolio - and Stephen Fry's first performance before London's theat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMApollo, London: Director Tim Carroll's sensitivity to Shakespeare's preoccupation with the theatricality of his work helps treat West End audiences to a beautifully nuanced, poigna…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMHampstead Theatre, London: Whenever one thinks of the parliamentarians who waged Civil War against their king, one never imagines them in 1940s get-up, tapping on typewriters and flicking in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMLyttelton, National, London: Howard Barker's 1984 radio play (also revived to some acclaim at the Hackney Empire five years ago) may have been beset by technical difficulties on press n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMYoung Vic, London: There are dramatic updates and there are dramatic updates. Controversial Australian director and writer Benedict Andrews effectively punches Chekhov's play full in th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMHampstead, London: Rupert Everett is an interesting and ultimately successful choice to play Oscar Wilde in this revival of David Hare's 1998 imagining of the great Irish playwright and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMApollo, London: Hola, los Amigos. Yes, it was only a matter of time before this smash kids TV hit followed all the other smash TV kids hits to the stage. Fortunately there's a real colo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMVaudeville, London: Volcano is something of a dirty secret - the gossipy tale of the love affairs of Noel Coward's bored, listless and over-privileged Jamaica neighbours, written in exi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMHarold Pinter theatre, London: Befitting its bijou new home, this is a neater, less sprawling Spamalot than the one that opened in Broadway in 2005. It is shorter, has a tighter script (with…
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