The musical had a difficult birth, but Damon Runyon's romanticised stories of gambling gangsters and sinning spinsters found their ultimate expression in Frank Loesser's wonderful score. Nev…
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Comedian's alma mater to offer BA in comedy practices that will cover performance, writing and the industryWhatever you do, don't dismiss Salford University's new degree in comedy as a joke.…
The Welsh singer-songwriter has turned his 2007 solo album Candylion into a colourful Christmas kids' show … with a dose of political theatreWhen Gruff Rhys started gigging his second solo…
Over the summer Elizabeth Newman was running a workshop for young people at the Bolton Octagon. She began by asking the teenage
"All you need is a story." Those are the words that greet anyone landing on Papatango's website. It's the motto of a
In late 2010, Hampstead Theatre, London, opened a new studio theatre, Hampstead Downstairs. Artistic director Edward Hall had been appointed at the
The millionaire standup comedian tells those who have sneered at his routines: 'If it's so easy then why don't you do it?'Michael McIntyre's brand of observational comedy has made him comedy…
I'm in New York, playing the theatre tourist. I'm ducking and weaving through Times Square, past two Buzz Lightyears, three Teenage Mutant
Actor reportedly struck by Kenneth Branagh's sword at St Peter's Church, Manchester is treated by paramedicsMacbeth's reputation as a cursed play was bolstered last week when one of Kennet…
More writers are under commission and on development schemes than ever before but the Royal Court receives 3,000 scripts out of the blue each year. Three of its shows this autumn were plucke…
The glowing balloons of Constellations, flickering like thunderclouds; the canopy of light bulbs that entangled Maxine Peake's Hamlet; the blinding white light
Experimental US theatre group the TEAM talk about their latest show tackling national " and gender " identity by reinventing cultural icons Beat this for a plot synopsis: the king of rock'n…
Beat Generation will debut at this year's Jack Kerouac Literary festival in Massachusetts, 55 years after it was writtenJack Kerouac's only full-length play will receive its world premiere t…
Funny things, press nights. Everybody " critics, actors, writers, directors " claims to loathe them. They go up late. They're rapturously received.
Are all theatre companies, no matter how experimental, drawn to the Bard? Emma Rice, Simon McBurney, Tim Crouch and others reflect on their approaches to a playwright who 'can take kabuki, p…
US standup branded 'a bully with a microphone' after targeting Allison Pearson for her views on assisted suicideAmerican standup comedian Doug Stanhope has faced criticism after a tweet wish…
A few years ago, in its old home by Bristo Square, Forest Fringe held a robot disco. It wasn't a show, but
Agents take a lot of flak. They are easy fall guys " the obvious people to blame when you are not getting
Scottish comedian says he 'searched deep' to create taboo-busting material and is not amused by comics who follow suitScottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz has lambasted comedians who toy with ta…
Edinburgh is for exploring. That's the fun of the fringe: taking a punt on some oddball show in a damp, disused bank
If it takes one great performance to notice an actor and one great play to spot a playwright, other creatives can be
Staff from Dunfermline's Alhambra posed with swastika flags from production of The Sound of Music outside Fife council officesFive theatre workers have been detained by police in Fife after …
Mrs Bennett is a black woman in a bonnet. Two of her daughters are black, two more are white. The fifth, Elizabeth,
She's the cross-dressing heroine who leaves the court and is set free in the forest of Arden. Ronald Pickup and Michelle Terry, who played Rosalind 40 years apart, explain how they approache…