This month, British audiences will get the chance to see Vanessa Redgrave in the tale of grief, loss and magical thinking that took Broadway by storm. Here, Joan Didion tells how she turned …
As Vanessa Redgrave prepares to open at the National Theatre, she tells Sarah Crompton how she feels about voicing Joan Didion's grief
The rap artist and entrepreneur formerly known as Puff Daddy has been bitten by the acting bug. He talks to John Hiscock
Director Howard Davies seizes all his chances, achieving many virtuosic moments in a production that mixes the intimate and the epic.
Charles Spencer is impressed by God of Carnage at the Gielgud Theatre, London
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis tells Jasper Rees about his ambitious new drama
It has a quality you rarely find in musicals - gritty honesty - as well as the best collection of pop hits since Mamma Mia!
Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's most distinguished actresses, is fighting a private battle with breast cancer, I can disclose.
West End musical star Maria Friedman tells Matt Wolf why her recent illness helped her to rediscover the thing she loves doing best
There's no doubt: the Old Vic has an absolute blast of a smash hit on its hands.
Lyricist Tim Rice talks to Jasper Rees about his 'divorce' from Andrew Lloyd Webber - and the revival of his musical Chess
Hollywood actor Jeff Goldblum - star of 'Independence Day' and 'The Fly' - talks to Jasper Rees about his British stage debut
At 77, Sir Peter Hall's career is in overdrive. He talks to Jasper Rees about working with Pinter, meeting Coward - and his revolutionary new theatre
Eileen Atkins, actress, describes her week to Alastair Sooke
Charles Spencer reviews Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre
Zoë Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale are about to play Shakepeare's most querulous lovers - and provide them with a secret history. They talk to Jasper Rees
Charles Spencer reviews Othello at the Donmar Warehouse
Oh, cripes. I suppose I ought to be used to it by now, but it's always a bit of a shock to wake up after writing an overnight review and discovering that you are entirely at odds with your c…
John Patrick Shanley's hit play Doubt, which opens in London tonight, pits religious faith against uncertainty. Jasper Rees meets him
A bitter dispute between theatre producers and stagehands has left Broadway darkened, writes Charles Spencer
Ian McKellen's Lear is one of the year's great performances. He tells John Lahr why it's the hardest thing he's ever done
You cannot escape the impression that everyone is working desperately hard to animate essentially weak material, and the show fatally lacks that touch of the sublime that made The Producers …
Antony Sher reveals that the inspiration behind his new play about the making of the statue of David lies in the rivalry between two very different artists, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo