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Director Stephan Elliott tells Will Lawrence about bringing the 'Queen of the Desert' to the West End stage
Tom Leonard meets the team putting it on in New York
Charles Spencer finds Ralph Fiennes unconvincing as Oedipus
As La Cage Aux Folles heads for the West End, its stars talk to Matt Wolf about the hit musical's emotional rawness - and its enduring shock value
Sarah Crompton describes how the Old Vic's grand old proscenium-arch auditorium has been transformed into a spanking new theatre in the round. Watch the transformation below
Back in the Seventies Penelope Keith, Felicity Kendal, Michael Gambon and Tom Courtenay were among those who starred in the Norman Conquests. This outstanding new company matches their achie…
The actor Michael Gambon, with his fondness for making trouble, is perfect for his latest role in a Pinter play. Jasper Rees finds out why
At the end of the day this is a neat adaptation of a Hollywood blockbuster rather than a great work of art, but I defy anyone to sit through it without experiencing both sympathetic laughter…
Charles Spencer reviews Chekhov's Ivanov with Kenneth Branagh at Wyndham's Theatre
Matt Wolf on the priceless legacy of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Such is old 'Goldenballs'' phenomenal appeal to the public that a librettist is talking to West End producers this week about staging a musical entitled David Beckham - The Theatre of Dreams.
Impossible rhythms, lack of money, a show full of 'hatefulness and ugliness'... the musical to end all musicals, which opened in Britain in 1958, had a difficult birth. Here, the original ca…
The actor is coming to the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park - though not in the role he's been playing for most of his life, Tevye the milkman, but in a new production of 'Gigi'. He talks t…
Now that her spell as Doctor Who's assistant has come to a dramatic conclusion, Catherine Tate talks to Jasper Rees about her return to the stage - and her ambition to play one of Shakespear…
He's a good husband, a great father, a serviceable singer and a brilliant Bond. But one of these roles Pierce Brosnan would rather not talk about - despite Nigel Farndale's best efforts. Por…
When the makers of a new film version of the globe-conquering stage show 'Mamma Mia!' asked Meryl Streep to play the lead, the longtime Abba fan couldn't resist. She talks to John Hiscock in…
Charles Spencer charts the success of the Abba musical from stage to screen
Amazingly, Diana Rigg has never done a Chekhov play - until now. She tells Aleks Sierz what finally drew her in
As the knives come out for 'Gone with the Wind', Dominic Cavendish looks back on the history of stage disasters
The vultures have been circling over this show for weeks. There have been cancelled previews, reports that it was so long that audiences were missing the last train home, and of people physically collapsing in the foyer through sheer exhaustion. Actually I made that last bit up. But I have to say that when I emerged from the theatre after three hours and 40 minutes, it felt as if I had spent several years watching Gone with the Wind and that I had probably missed not just the Beijing Olympics but the London games planned for 2012 as well.
