With its claustrophobic style and dark subject matter, could the Baileys-winning smash A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing ever succeed as theatre? Sarah Crompton discovers a show that redefines '…
This year, London's Royal Court will be rich with female playwrights, in a break from centuries of male dominance of the stage. Here, the artistic director and several leading writers set ou…
The choreographer performed in Peter Brook's legendary stage production of The Mahabharata as a child. As he prepares a new dance version of the Indian classical stories, he explains why he …
The actor and producer on leaving school at 16, speaking out on politics and finding the humour in playing a hangman 'You're the baddest baddass ever," the man says, enthusiastically shaking…
John Osborne the 'young crusader' and Terence Rattigan the 'old fogey' is a given of theatrical history. But there are many similarities between the playwrightsThe first night of the play th…
Why does Romeo and Juliet translate so well to dance? Sarah Crompton sits in on rehearsals at both the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet to see the celebrated tragedy dramatically res…
As Norris announces his first NT season as director, he talks about arts cuts, diversity, life after War Horse and enticing an audience into a 'broad church'Theatres, like schools, take on t…
Ten years ago Dana Fouras gave up a feted career dancing with her husband the choreographer Russell Maliphant to look after their young family. Now she's back, and here they talk about being…
Royal Opera House, LondonCarlos Acosta is going to have to dig deeper than this decorous, Cuban-inflected showcase in his imminent transition from ballet to contemporary danceCarlos Acosta i…
After Sherlock and Star Trek, Cumberbatch is now about to play Hamlet. It was all so different for a previous generation of actors, for whom stardom on the screen meant the end of a career o…
After being asked more than 15 times over the years to play the role of Diaghilev's provocative virtuoso, the Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov has finally taken a leap of faith. So what pe…
Morpurgo is a master story-teller and slowly, in this clever adaptation his words begin to grip.
As a season of his work opens in Sheffield, David Hare tells Sarah Crompton why theatre will always be his first love.
This year will mark the end of Sylvie Guillem's astonishing 30-plus years as one of the world's foremost ballet dancers. Sarah Crompton meets her as she prepares to bring her farewell tour t…
Forsythe's 1987 ballet In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated was commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev and starred the young Sylvie Guillem " and it electrified the ballet world. So what made this work …
Dance should celebrate ambition, not just the beauty of motion, says Sarah Crompton
Directing his first musical, in Paris, Royal Ballet choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has triumphed yet again, says Sarah Crompton
Mikhail Baryshnikov, former dancer and Sex and the City star, has turned his hand to photography
When the spotlight is on John himself, the work is simply devastating in its impact and empathy, says Sarah Crompton
Sylvie Guillem will be missed when she retires, says Sarah Crompton
Thomas Adès music is realised on a grand scale in this exhilaratingly imaginative production, says Sarah Crompton
This imaginative tale of Deep South dancers marks rising star Ivan Blackstock as a man to watch, says Sarah Crompton
This evocation of small-town America never really gets off the ground, says Sarah Crompton
Francesca Hayward as Manon completely inhabits the decadent world of 18th-century Paris, says Sarah Crompton
A performance by retired dancers showed that dance is good for you whatever your age