115 stories by "Hannah Ellis-Petersen"
With hit shows including Derren Brown, Impossible and The Illusionists, the capital's theatreland has some new tricks with which to lure audiences Walking through the West End of London and …
The actors, directors and producers changing theatre' The campaigners shaking up film and TV' The MP activists cleaning up Westminster' Fighting the supermarkets for equal pay' Sportspeople …
The racially diverse musical based on America's founding fathers loses none of its power in its transfer from BroadwaySince Hamilton debuted in New York in 2015, the hip-hop musical, which t…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash musical makes transition from Broadway with a new cast, offering an antidote to Trump's America and 'closed-minded' gloomThis week, the West End of London was abuz…
London theatre says 'cult of personality' existed around Spacey during his time as director that prevented people from speaking out The Old Vic has received 20 personal testimonies of inappr…
Award-winning British playwright, who is currently director of Baltimore's Center Stage, will take over role next yearKwame Kwei-Armah, the actor turned award-winning British playwright, has…
Sam Steiner's Kanye the First, which opens at the HighTide festival, imagines West's reincarnation as a middle-class BritWhat would you do if one day you woke up and you were Kanye West? To …
Comedian who quit Cambridge University for online poker says both his careers are based on 'extreme punishment or reward'They say comedy can be found in the most banal of subjects, and the 2…
Performed by people dressed as bananas, Break Up is a marathon improv show about a relationship in crisis. Our writer sits down to watch " and wishes she'd brought along a bottle of whiskyIt…
Nearly a quarter of the performers have had their visas denied more than once and one show has been cancelled completelyThe first showcase of Arab arts at the Edinburgh Fringe has been force…
Edinburgh fringe play Last Resort reimagines the notorious detention facility as a package holiday destinationIt could be a package holiday destination like any other: tropical climate, beau…
Wild Bore was born out of conversations about absurd, sexist and ignorant ways three comedians, as female performers, were described by reviewersThere is one unwritten rule of theatre: do no…
Liz Richardson's show about living with bowel disease ulcerative colitis aims to challenge people's embarrassment of 'a woman talking about poo'Toilet humour is never hard to come by at the …
New play from writer of King Charles III will explore ideas of British identity against backdrop of a country house A new work by Mike Bartlett, the writer behind hit play and BBC drama King…
Speaking to a Labour arts diversity inquiry, The Good Wife actor says she repeatedly hit the 'exotic best friend ceiling' when auditioning in the UKActor Cush Jumbo has accused the British t…
The much-loved actor has conquered radio and TV, comedy and drama. Now she is heading to the West End stage " the realisation of a childhood dream The name Miranda Hart has become synonymous…
Tom Morton-Smith's The Earthworks, set just before the LHC was switched on at Cern, is the latest collision between science and theatreTom Morton-Smith was never any good at physics at schoo…
Producers of a new version of George Orwell's classic suggest his dystopic fiction is chillingly relevant' Michael Billington's four-star review of 1984' Top five theatrical dystopiasOn 8 Ju…
James Graham's Fleet Street play part of season which includes the return of Ben Whishaw and a series of films in which actors perform famous speeches, available on the Guardian websiteThe b…
Ringling and Barnum & Bailey circus won't be coming to town any more as ticket sales fall and pressure over animal rights mounts One of America's oldest circuses, the Ringling Bros and B…
Playwright who also wrote Privacy, about the surveillance state, will focus on the campaign that led to vote to quit EUPlaywright James Graham, known for his political plays tackling surveil…
Play loosely based on the Bullingdon Club will be performed as it was initially written, using the male names and the 'he' pronounPosh, the play depicting the privileged world and debauched …
One Tower Bridge development will be the flagship home for London Theatre Company, the group set up by Hytner and Nick Starr when they left the NationalA 900-seat theatre is to open close to…
My Country: A Work in Progress will draw on interviews about the referendum compiled across BritainThe National Theatre is to take on Brexit as part of its new season, in a verbatim work com…
Morris minors, spitfire pilots and 'endless surprises' to descend on Welsh capital in remembrance of city's beloved storytellerFiremen, spitfire pilots, a parade of bald men and one hundred …
