105 stories by "Maev Kennedy"
Event features Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and a sculpture by Antony Gormley at crossing points between north and southVisitors to the only arts festival that straddles the Irish bord…
Young Ones stars to appear on stage in Vulcan 7 as has-beens stuck in a literal and TV-career wastelandTwo slightly matured Young Ones, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer, have reunited to wr…
Performed at St Giles-in-the-Fields, The End of History outlines site's transformation from gin-soaked squalor to swanky hangoutIn William Hogarth's celebrated print Gin Lane, the church of …
Show starring Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe to get 14-week run in UK before tour of AsiaFestooned with awards and five-star reviews, the Broadway production of the classic musical The King a…
Show opening in Sheffield looks at hidden history of female and black circus performersMiss La La was the star of the show when Edgar Degas painted her in 1879 hanging by her teeth from the …
Singer takes over from fellow Scot Sheena Easton as vengeful Dorothy Brock at Theatre RoyalLulu is returning to the West End stage after an absence of more than 30 years to star in 42nd Stre…
London museum obtains outfit as part of collection passed to family of dancer's sister, Bronislava NajinskaA silk costume designed by Léon Bakst and worn by Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the grea…
The 13-sided temporary structure, modelled on the Elizabethan playhouse, will house four Shakespeare plays directed by Lindsay Posner and Damien CrudenA 950-capacity pop-up open-air theatre …
Collection charts east London theatre from Victorian pomp to near collapse, then shabby but structurally sound redemptionAn archive recording the glory days as well as the decay and near col…
My friend Henry Lewis, who has died aged 70, was a happy soul who woke up humming and often sang his way through the day " often delivering renditions of his own songs, though he could also …
London arts space is holding a fund-raising auction and inviting the public to contribute ideas for the Phoenix season to mark reopening of grand hall next yearIt is two years to the day sin…
Card whose receipt Bernard Shaw noted in his diary is identified in uncatalogued album and will go on displayOn 14 February 1886, George Bernard Shaw wrote in his diary: "Got a handsome Vale…
Actor Susannah Harker and relatives bid farewell to Joseph Harker's 1905 London studio which may be turned into flatsThe actor Susannah Harker and a chorus line of her theatrical relatives h…
Described by director as 'Rome meets the West Wing', six-play adaption will be grand finale of the company's Rome seasonThe Royal Shakespeare Company is creating a six-play adaptation of Rob…
The newly excavated Curtain theatre in Shoreditch is believed to be where Henry V and Romeo and Juliet were first performedThe battle scenes of Shakespeare's Henry V and the dances and sword…
The Great Evanion, then down on his luck, gave photographs, tickets, playbills and posters to library in 1895In 1895 the British Library did something extraordinary: it bought, for 20 shilli…
New crop of illusionists and escapologists aim to breathe life into classic tricksIt could turn out to be a "now you see it, now you don't" trick in which a million pounds vanishes into thin…
£6m parody penned by Harry Hill and Steve Brown latest West End flop despite warm reviews and a divine Simon Cowell' Mark Lawson: Why I Can't Sing was voted off' Judge a song from I Can't…
Former Harry Potter star recognised for performance in The Cripple of Inishmaan while Rupert Grint also wins prize' Michael Grandage rules out second season of West End showsFormer Harry Pot…
British playwright, who also won an Oscar for film adaptation of Amadeus, has died after falling seriously ill last weekThe playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, whose critical and popular successes…
Foundations of the Curtain where Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were possibly first staged uncovered in ShoreditchThe foundations and shoulder-high walls of the Curtain theatre, where Shakespe…
The still-functioning school in Stratford-upon-Avon opens its doors after a £1.8m restorationThe school room in Stratford-upon-Avon where Shakespeare learned "small Latin and less Greek" …
The entrance hall to Brunel's 19th-century tunnel under the Thames has been turned into a unique auditorium, complete with the rumble of Tube trainsThe engineers Marc and his son Isambard Ki…
A new production of Brideshead Revisited will signal the relaunch of one of the UK's oldest theatres, after the discovery of medieval remains forced its closureThe Theatre Royal in York, whi…
Playwright's New Place mansion, which was demolished in 1759, is re-imagined following major excavation projectIn July a grand bronze-studded oak door will swing open on the main street of S…