Sets appeal: jaw-dropping stage designs from around the world " in pictures by Guardian Staff

Pink elephants and water-worlds are among the groundbreaking creations of contemporary designers featured in a new book. Take a look at eight of their incredible creations " click on each ph…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:25am on January 22, 2015☆[SHARE]

Anne Hathaway to perform Grounded in New York by Guardian Staff

The play, an award-winning monologue about a pilot who is reassigned to operate drones when she becomes pregnant, will be directed by Julie Taymor Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:06pm on January 21, 2015☆[SHARE]

Nothing to Lose: 'This is not just a show about fat happy dancing people' " video by Guardian Staff

Kate Champion, artistic director of Force Majeure, and Kelli Jean Drinkwater, associate artist and fat activist, talk about the company's new show featuring big-bodied performers. Nothing to…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:44pm on January 21, 2015☆[SHARE]

Brian Blessed pictures quiz: identify the mighty actor's roles by Guardian Staff

Following the news that Brian Blessed collapsed on stage yet still managed to finish playing King Lear, we celebrate the star's heroic career. He's been in everything from Shakespeare to shl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39am on January 21, 2015☆[SHARE]

Mark Rylance: Richard III gave me lesson in 'vicious nature of fate' by Guardian Staff

Wolf Hall star speaks of how Shakespeare's play taught him 'to accept that everything rather sadly comes to an end' after the sudden death of his stepdaughter, the film-maker Nataasha van Ka…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:13am on January 21, 2015☆[SHARE]

Democratic design is bad for theatres by Guardian Staff

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SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:16pm on January 19, 2015☆[SHARE]

Idina Menzel to sing national anthem at 2015 Super Bowl by Guardian Staff

Star of Frozen, whose Let it Go was one of the most ubiquitous sounds of 2014, to perform the Star Spangled Banner before the game on 1 February Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:50am on January 16, 2015☆[SHARE]

Al Murray, The Pub Landlord, to challenge Nigel Farage in general election - video by Guardian Staff

Comedian Al Murray, aka The Pub Landlord, announces he will run against Ukip's Nigel Farage in next year's general election. 'The UK is ready for a bloke waving a pint around, offering commo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58am on January 14, 2015☆[SHARE]

Frances Barber: Shakespeare and Mamet give the actor everything " video by Guardian Staff

Frances Barber explains what the Bard and the American Buffalo playwright have in common " and the difference between showing your personality within a character and simply showing off.This …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:00am on January 13, 2015☆[SHARE]

A blast at our smug theatre: Edward Bond on Sarah Kane by Guardian Staff

From the archive: In this piece first published on 28 January 1995, the playwright Edward Bond defends the widely pilloried play Blasted and says its author's apocalyptic vision of the viole…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:30am on January 12, 2015☆[SHARE]

Kate Ashfield on Sarah Kane's Blasted: 'the whole run was charged with energy' by Guardian Staff

The role was hard to stomach, there were queues around the block and the critical reaction was beyond extreme … Twenty years after its first performance at the Royal Court, Kate Ashfield r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:30am on January 12, 2015☆[SHARE]

Sarah Kane: Why can't theatre be as gripping as footie? by Guardian Staff

Sarah Kane's debut play, Blasted, was first put on 20 years ago today. In this archive piece, written during the Edinburgh festival in 1998, she considers performance on the stage and the pi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:30am on January 12, 2015☆[SHARE]

On my radar: Peter Kosminsky's cultural highlights by Guardian Staff

The Wolf Hall director on Kazuo Ishiguro's comeback, the enduring appeal of Bob Dylan and why he found the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse well met by candelight Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:05pm on January 10, 2015☆[SHARE]

Idina Menzel's If/Then is let go by Broadway by Guardian Staff

Musical starring the Frozen singer will close at the Richard Rodgers theatre in New York in March 2015, a year after it openedJennifer Hudson to star in The Color Purple on BroadwayIdina Men…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:45pm on January 10, 2015☆[SHARE]

Kooza: Cirque du Soleil clown around at the Royal Albert Hall " in pictures by Guardian Staff

The Quebec-based company are in London with a show presenting a high-wire act, contortion, unicycles and a bad dog. All photographs by Tristram Kenton Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08am on January 9, 2015☆[SHARE]

English National Ballet's Swan Lake: Alina Cojocaru fits the bill " in pictures by Guardian Staff

Alina Cojocaru dances the roles of Odette and Odile opposite Ivan Vasiliev as Prince Siegfried in ENB's production at the Coliseum in London. All photographs: Tristram Kenton for the Guardia…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:28am on January 8, 2015☆[SHARE]

Sienna Miller comes to Broadway's Cabaret to replace Emma Stone by Guardian Staff

The actor, who is enjoying a career renaissance, will be bidding Wilkommen to Broadway and playing Sally Bowles for the final six weeks of the hit show's run Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:07pm on January 7, 2015☆[SHARE]

Tamsin meets Pedro: Women on the Verge, the West End musical by Guardian Staff

It's just the thing for a dreary January in London's theatreland: Pedro Almodóvar's gazpacho-fuelled black comedy is retold with songs and dance numbers in a sunny new production starring…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:01am on January 7, 2015☆[SHARE]

Playwrights describe their characters: can you identify them? " quiz by Guardian Staff

Sometimes the description of a character in the stage directions says as much as lines of dialogue. Do you recognise these eight figures as described by the playwrights who created them? Con…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:00am on January 7, 2015☆[SHARE]

Sting's musical The Last Ship ends its voyage on Broadway by Guardian Staff

Shipyards show, which currently stars its composer and lyricist, will close early at the Neil Simon theatre in New YorkSting's debut musical The Last Ship is to close on Broadway, three mont…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:36am on January 6, 2015☆[SHARE]

Broadway enjoys highest-grossing year ever in 2014 by Guardian Staff

New York's theatreland also boasts largest audience attendence and a record-breaking haul during New Year week according to the Broadway League Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:16pm on January 5, 2015☆[SHARE]

Can you rhyme like Sondheim? " quiz by Guardian Staff

Sondheim's lyrics are some of the best we've heard. How well do you know them? Add the missing word…Declare your genius: complete Oscar Wilde's epigramsCats or Pussycat Dolls? " lyrics qui…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:24am on January 5, 2015☆[SHARE]

From the archive, 27 December 1877: The mysterious disappearance of Grimaldi's brother by Guardian Staff

The famous clown is reunited with his long lost brother one night at the theatre where he is performing, only for him to vanish again foreverClowns mark Grimaldi Day at church in east London…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30am on December 27, 2014☆[SHARE]

Around the world in 40 pirouettes: backstage at English National Ballet's Nutcracker " in pictures by Guardian Staff

Merry Christmas! To get in the festive mood, we went to the rehearsals for English National Ballet's Nutcracker and watched dances from Spain, Arabia, China and RussiaENB's Nutcracker is on …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:00am on December 25, 2014☆[SHARE]

John Osborne: in his own (and others') words by Guardian Staff

On the 20th anniversary of the playwright's death, look back at how his work has been assessed by the critics, Olivier, David Hare " and Osborne himself"Jimmy Porter is a young man who is an…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:00am on December 24, 2014☆[SHARE]