Charley Miles’s There Are No Beginnings is based on interviews with women who lived through Peter Sutcliffe’s reign of terror A play about the impact on women’s lives of the hunt for t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMMilton Keynes theatreLiz Pichon brings the young hero of her witty books to life in an adaptation that explodes with animations There is barely a boring sentence in Liz Pichon’s books abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThe 600-seat theatre, due to open in Facebook’s new offices in 2021, will be an adaptable auditorium in the mould of the Bridge A new theatre is to open in King’s Cross, central London, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMAudiences will choose to be crooked traders or FBI agents in London production of Jordan Belfort’s memoir this September The Wolf of Wall Street, the outrageous memoir of former stockbroke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThe actor-writer will perform her comic monologue, on which the hit TV show was based, for 30 performances this summer It is the filthy, fiercely funny monologue that received mixed reviews…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMBells and Spells casts the French star as a kleptomaniac in a performance that leaves the audience guessing In her mystifying shows, Aurélia Thierrée has crossed the stage in an upside-dow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMVaudeville theatre claims to break new ground in London with parent and baby showing of hit play Emilia Cliche has it that matinee audiences are full of snoring older people. But it was infa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39PMIan McKellen throws his wand behind underdog in dramatisation of themed pub’s legal threat from Middle-earth Enterprises It is the nail-biting, crowdpleasing story of a plucky everyday her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMJimmy Carr and Katy Brand among those to pay public respect to ‘fearless’ comic who fell suddenly ill during Bicester gig Tributes have been paid to the anarchic comedian Ian Cognito, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMLeyton Sports Ground, LondonThis craft-based installation celebrates a London borough’s history of metalwork – and the wonder of tin On a wall opposite Blackhorse Road underground stati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PMThe horror-film choreographer’s new show, Vessel, weaves spells with writhing limbs, menacing ritual figures and a cauldron of gloop. He explains its origins ‘A sculpture contains an ene…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMDanny Dyer saluted royalty, Akram Khan told us to keep moving and Laura Wade remembered meeting her husband Olivier awards: list of winners Laura Wade (best new comedy, Home, I’m Darling):…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:23PMIn her new show, Muckers, the actor and playwright revisits the mess, mischief and bamboozling anxieties of growing up ‘Ask her if it’s true about the poo!” “Ask her what she really …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSix and Waitress are the latest shows to find singalong success – and without a jukebox hit between them. What’s their secret? From The Sound of Music to The Greatest Showman, singalong …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMNew Boulevard theatre aims to awaken area’s rebel spirit in the building that hosted Eddie Izzard and Rik Mayall in the 80s A tiny new state-of-the-art theatre seeking to capture the “re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMThe stage show, directed by Michael Grandage, has been running on Broadway for a year An invasion of tiny Elsas – and a few Annas – will hit London in autumn 2020, as the stage musical …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMAfter a Franglais Swan Lake, the comic explains economics with sex dolls in ChiffChaff. She talks about loving horror, how guinea pigs helped her through illness and standing up for comedian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:59AMWalthamstow’s Roger Ascham school has a superstar ex-pupil: Matthew Bourne. Now his company is putting on a show with the students – almost 500 of them It looks, at first glance, like a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMHe grew up listening to his father Pete reciting Shakespeare over breakfast. Now Billy Postlethwaite is taking on the part that obsessed them both: Macbeth Billy Postlethwaite has lost his m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMUS dramatist wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize for female playwrights with Fairview, beating dramas by debbie tucker green and Ella Hickson The American dramatist Jackie Sibblies Drury has wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMSmith will play the Narrator this summer when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical returns to the Palladium Sheridan Smith will return to the West End stage this summer in a new prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMArtistic director who won acclaim for her work with Maxine Peake is appointed to new role at Lamda London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) has appointed Sarah Frankcom as its new di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMAs their stunning Sgt Pepper dance show tours the UK, Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson recall how they fell for the album’s ‘hokey, vaudeville’ charms The light-footed Fred Astaire is amo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMDownton Abbey actor stars in Christopher Hampton’s A German Life about Nazi leader’s assistant, who died in 2017Maggie Smith is to play Joseph Goebbels’ secretary, Brunhilde Pomsel, in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMFormer artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe steps into limelight in her production of Angela Carter adaptationThe theatre director Emma Rice is to take over one of the lead roles in Wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThe standup inspired Mark Thomas with his activism, opened Jack Dee’s eyes and appalled Mark Steel – in the best possible way. Friends and colleagues pay tribute to Hardy, who has died a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMatthew Lopez’s epic drama wins three prizes, while Marianne Elliott’s production of Company is named best musicalThe Inheritance, an epic seven-hour drama about young gay New Yorkers, h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMBitter Wheat – ‘a black farce about a badly behaved movie mogul’ – to open at the Garrick theatre, London, on 7 JuneJohn Malkovich is to star in a “farce” inspired by the Harvey …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMIt started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell allAcross the road from Victoria Statio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMCelebrated for her performances in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! Channing also earned an Oscar nomination for Thoroughly Modern Millie Carol Channing, the American actor who ori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMIt is a stage sensation in France – not to mention Kazakhstan and Korea – but Notre Dame de Paris was panned by critics when it first hit London. Now it’s back, in the original FrenchE…
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