Luhrmann's stage version of his film didn't get critics telling him to Foxtrot Oscar, but they didn't throw flowers at his feet eitherNot everyone likes Baz Luhrmann's high camp directorial …
5 April 1921 There was a wonderful range in Mme. Bernhardt's acting, the words hammered out and chiselled and turned into a statuesque eloquence"DANIEL" AT THE PRINCE'S THEATRELONDON, MONDAY…
A gripping story of the Calais camp. A caper about media greed. A pair of startling dramas from Caryl Churchill. Leading playwrights choose their favourite political playsJoe Murphy and Joe …
Paul O'Grady's family cheered him outside court. Alan Davies couldn't get a word in over lunch. And he got Frank Cottrell Boyce by the chuckle muscle. Stars remember the brilliantly bizarre …
The comedian on his rhubarb tea addiction, the mastery of standup John Kearns, and his love of The CorrectionsTim Key, the comedian, actor, writer and performance poet, was born in Cambridge…
Group seeks £3m to buy historic West End venueA group of women from the world of the performing arts has launched a campaign to buy a West End theatre with the aim of making it a venue th…
22 November 1930 " 11 September 2017The playwright recalls the RSC founder as a man who championed public engagement with British culture while keeping his personal feelings to himself' Anit…
5 November 1943 " 27 July 2017The actor and playwright's best friend recalls a 50-year bond based on their shared love of literature, letters and life in the fast lane ' Howard Hodgkin remem…
Pygmalion is taken off the British stage ahead of the musical version, My Fair LadyThe Society of Authors has a long record of honourable service to the writing profession and its many admir…
From faking illness to binning Brexit chat, standups including Rachel Parris, Milton Jones and Phil Wang share advice on taking the hassle out of the holidaysRachel Parris: Wear something hi…
Mark Thomas was moved by Bill Hicks. Tim Key loved Jackson's Way. Olivia Poulet loved Tim Key … Performers and theatre-makers pick their all-time festival favouritesIn 1988, I was performi…
The comedian released a statement regarding the claims: 'The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly'Louis CK: laughter ends as years of …
As a schoolboy, Harold Pinter took on bullies and fought with fascists. Later, as a playwright, he took on the entire critical establishment. Henry Woolf, who is appearing in a revival of Th…
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome … as Cabaret returns to Broadway, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Michelle Williams and Alan Cumming, take a look at past productions with Liza Minnelli,…
Watch a scene from Richard Eyre's revival of Ibsen's Ghosts for the Almeida theatre which won Oliviers for best actress (Lesley Manville) and best actor in a supporting role (Jack Lowden). A…
A lapdancing club in upstate New York is arguing that it should be tax-exempt because its performances are 'art'. Has it got a point?On Wednesday, the classily named strip club Nite Moves in…
Lucy Porter caused a break-up. Romesh Ranganathan did a diabetes panel show. And Clive Anderson was attacked with scissors. Comics relive their worst moments on stageA guy in the crowd had b…
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author, whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American we…
On its UK debut in 1958, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was regarded as so racy that the censors denied it a public licence. Since then, it has gained a reputation as Tennessee Williams's best play "…
As Frank Skinner reveals he will appear in the latest Doctor Who series, take a look at these other standup, sketch and sitcom comedians " from John Cleese to Catherine Tate " who have gues…
The Pulitzer prize-winning writer of Angels in America will focus next on the years before the 2016 election and 'how a country commits political suicide' Pulitzer prize-winning playwright T…
As Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita gets ready to return to the West End stage, we take a look at productions through the years Continue reading...
The playwright, who died last year, made provisions in his will to ensure any remaining manuscripts were never published. But, as with Nabokov and Kafka, will his dying wishes be ignored?Nam…
"When you throw the doors open and anyone can just rock up … how is that fair?" In a West Midlands incident room, Priti reports a violent attack Continue reading...
"52% of the country can't all be scum" … In Wigan, Reece hopes to introduce his girlfriend to his leave-voting dad Continue reading...