This is what happened between March 8, 2017, and this year: "A group of trailblazing academics has spent the last 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, wh…
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A special edition in tribute to the Nobel prizewinning playwright Harold Pinter, whose death has been announced. In this programme, first broadcast in 2005, Pinter gave a rare full-length in…
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The Moscow airport bomb blast killed a Ukrainian dramatist and poet, Anna Yablonskaya, who was on her way to get a prize for her play The Pagans.
Hollywood, TV and Broadway actress Jill Clayburgh has died aged 66.
After being diagnosed with cancer while working on Casualty, he left the drama and returned to the stage in the West End production of The Sound of Music until it closed in February 2009.
In April 1945 one of the most successful musicals of all time premiered on Broadway. Carousel, by Rodgers and Hammerstein was a huge hit and Jean Darling was one of the original cast.
His career took off when he stood in at the last minute for a sick conductor when he was just 25. Almost 25 years later, he was recently named conductor of the year.
Mark Lawson talks to leading theatre producers, including Cameron Mackintosh, Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bill Kenwright and Sonia Friedman, about the art of crea…
Some people in the theatre industry don't take kindly to the innovations that Mr Bird and his team at Knifedge are introducing to the stage.
The Olympics will cause "a bloodbath of a summer" for London theatres in 2012, Andrew Lloyd Webber has predicted.
Hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors has had a sell-out run at the National Theatre, toured the UK and is now in the West End, prior to a Broadway transfer.
Lynne Ramsay on directing We Need To Talk About Kevin; Sir Cameron Mackintosh at 65.
Actor Mark Rylance has given his Tony Award for his role in the Broadway hit Jerusalem to the man who partly inspired it.
The story of Batman has been told on stage for the first time at the premiere of an arena show that could tour the world for the next five years.
An opera involving primary school pupils has been cancelled after the writer refused to remove references to a gay character's sexuality.
Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome! Our master of ceremonies, Paul O'Grady, celebrates the magic of cabaret, from its Parisian origins to its present-day resurgence.
A young man with Down's syndrome admits to killing his mother. Then a woman turns up claiming that he was with her on the day that his mother was killed. Stone must discover who is lying and…
Two plays by Doug Lucie which satirise our obsession with weddings and happy-ever-afters