As a revival of David Halliwell's cult comedy about disaffected youth and fascism opens in London, his friend and collaborator Mike Leigh says he should have been up there with Pinter and St…
Monday morning at the Riding House Cafe is business breakfast meeting o'clock. As cafes go, it's very London 2015: Shoreditch chic cleaned
Star ballerina overcomes hardship and injury to become American Ballet Theatre's first black soloist in 20 yearsA ballerina who lived in a single motel room with her mother and five siblings…
As Stephen Fry returns to the theatre after fleeing a performance 17 years ago, Salma Hayek, John Simm and Eileen Atkins share their own experiences of 'the actor's nightmare'Stephen Fry cou…
In the Young Vic's Clare studio, about 30 women are on stage dancing. None of them are professional performers. They're carers, all
Six men are dancing with six fencing foils. Blades and limbs swish sharply through the air. Six women in starched black ballgowns
I'm the playwright without productions," Elinor Cook laughs, somewhere between a scoff and a giggle. "A lot of people know who I
Miller's never-before-seen drama, set in the dark, dangerous world of New York's waterfront, unlocked the playwright's identity " and sowed the seeds of his marriage to Marilyn MonroeNew Art…
RSC criticised for producing The Orphan of Zhao, regarded as Chinese equivalent of Hamlet, with predominantly white cast Continue reading...
Actors calls for public debate with RSC to discuss casting concerns in production of so-called Chinese Hamlet Continue reading...
Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker claims Beyoncé borrowed her routines in the video for new single Countdown Continue reading...
With cuts in funding, safer programming, shrinking audiences, new writing is the first casualty in this vicious circle. The Out of Joint founder says something has to change Continue reading…
Reviewers only give five-star ratings once in a blue moon. So does this mean plays have to be 'life-changing' or 'definitive' to achieve that ultimate accolade?
The London venue's hamfisted handling of a blogger highlights the need for arts companies to rethink their approach to the web
There can't be many theatregoers who haven't slumbered in the stalls. But what if a show consciously sends its audience to sleep?
Having celebrated theatre's grip on our memories last time out, I want to consider the opposite. What if the past proves a
In May 1965, The Times sent a 25 year-old theatre critic to review Saint Joan at the Bristol Old Vic. Half a
Leo Bill pulls back his sleeve. On his forearm, three weeks old and only just about healed, is a tattoo: CAZALE. "It
The Lyric Hammersmith has reopened to the sound of singing and splurge guns. But this streetwise revival of Bugsy Malone is more than a nostalgia tripAs far back as I can remember, I always …
The vast majority of British theatre is by middle-class people, for middle-class people and about middle-class life. With their 'loud' new play about security guards on a night shift, two yo…
The other day, a friend mentioned Katie Mitchell's Women of Troy. It was the first show I wrote up at length and,
When Sean Holmes took over the Lyric Hammersmith six years ago, he laid out his ambition to turn it into a kind
It takes all of five minutes for Nick Salmon, Matthew Byam Shaw and Nia Janis " the three directors of Playful Productions
Emerging. It sounds like a slow, gradual process, doesn't it? Tentative. Bit by bit. Step by step. Robert Hastie makes it look like
The West End is working. Thank God for that. News that Oppenheimer, Golem and Farinelli and the King have all found homes