It's had huge commercial hits with shows such as The Great Gatsby but critics fear the genre is now just in it for the money With seven cast members, three understudies, 59 different ways to…
Songs by the Broadway composer and lyricist are popping up in films and TV shows from Joker to Marriage StoryHe is an 89-year old reclusive New Yorker who has been working on his new show fo…
The Divide, which is set in a dystopian future England, has been adapted from a six-hour, two-part playAt 80, after writing 83 plays and earning seven Evening Standard theatre awards, two Ol…
After hours of watching standup and endless meetings fuelled by bad coffee, five themes emerged from this year's fringe I was asked to be a judge on this year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, the …
Old Vic theatre trained staff to 'act as an outlet' for concerns around sexual harassment and bullyingA pioneering workplace scheme set up in the wake of the Kevin Spacey scandal at the Old …
Actor leaps off stage to confront theatregoer for talking during his West End performanceRichard Griffiths, Patrick Stewart and Ken Stott may have taken umbrage at disruptive theatregoers, b…
Artistic director Indhu Rubasingham explains how, after its £7m facelift, the theatre will give a platform to 'stories we don't hear'In the six years since Indhu Rubasingham was appointed…
The actor nearly turned down the starring role in the BBC's primetime drama because it felt too close to his own roots. So why did he change his mind?Sacha Dhawan is exaggerating, I think, w…
In the latest instalment of our series on up-and-coming comics, get the lowdown on a man who mixes up the banal and the bizarreThe story so far: For someone professing to be a lazy slacker w…
The importance of playing the prince isn't just overstated, it's boring. Which is why we should welcome a break from the usual narrow castingTo be or not to be? It's not so much the question…
He's been called offensive, dated, lazy and misogynistic. Is Paul Chowdhry " Britain's first Asian standup superstar " bothered? Nosheen Iqbal finds outStanding in a Soho alleyway to be phot…
Comedian's use of the P-word was designed to show how attitudes have changed " but standups pushing boundaries don't have the right to be offensiveDaniel Kitson called me a Paki last week. W…
The writer has reimagined The Cherry Orchard as The Hotel Cerise, replacing Russian aristocrats with African Americans. She talks about fleeing gentrification, how millennials are going to s…
'Which artists do I admire? Good ones. Would I like to give any examples? Nope " they know who they are'What got you started?I failed in all other branches of writing by the time I was in my…
She's a 6ft ball of energy who slogged away on the comedy circuit for 25 years before landing Saturday Night Live and then Ghostbusters. She talks about wanting to be the new Eddie Murphy an…
Armed with a guitar, a couple of stools and Ryvita-dry anecdotes, this toe-tapping twosome have got a colourful futureThe story so far: "Hi, we're Ginger and Black. Because I'm ginger and ..…
He's been called offensive, dated, lazy and misogynistic. Is Paul Chowdhry " Britain's first Asian standup superstar " bothered? Nosheen Iqbal finds outStanding in a Soho alleyway to be phot…
The Goodness Gracious Me actor and comedian has starred in hit TV shows and films, and written a book worthy of GCSE study. So why doesn't she know where her next job is coming from? There i…
Having considered The Credit Crunch and Other Biscuits at Edinburgh last year, this manic standup is contemplating Death By a Thousand Pricks at this summer's festivalThe story so far: Dan A…
Meet the bubblegum standup who swapped contemporary art for a career in comedy " and won Frank Skinner as a fanThe story so far: Sometime gallerist and kids' telly presenter Holly Walsh coul…
How long should you look at a painting for? Where are the best seats for ballet? Big names from the arts world, including Charlotte Rampling and Richard Eyre, share their tips
Hemingway and Priestley adaptations, film scores and New Year's Eve party playlists all make for a welcome interlude between Christmas and New Year festivitiesIf you've spent Christmas the t…
This return to the angry young men of British drama's new wave pulled out all the stops' Beyond the kitchen sinkWhy can't all radio documentaries be as classy as the ones put out by Archive …
Tom Stoppard's weird, trippy reworking of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was way out there on bank holiday Radio 2' Darkside' DreamPost-watershed, bank holiday Radio 2 isn't the first pl…
With few other skills other than building Lego, the comedian is a pushover for extra gigs. Besides, this is a city that values kebabsHi Nish, where are you? I'm standing outside my Edinburgh…