391 stories from Telegraph
'Coupling' star Richard Coyle talks to Aleks Sierz about turning off the charm for his latest role in 'Look Back in Anger'
Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze, a swoon idol for two generations of women, has hit the West End in Guys and Dolls. He talks to Veronica Lee
The former 'Star Trek' actor is back doing what he loves best - playing Shakespeare with the RSC. He talks to Marc Lee
'Hello, Dolly!' made Jerry Herman a Broadway legend, but his favourite musical is his least successful. With a revival of 'Mack and Mabel' poised to open, he tells Jasper Rees why
British audiences are in for a treat as the best of New York's hit musicals transfer to London, bringing everything from puppets to Python. Veronica Lee reports
At 95, Kitty Carlisle Hart still glows with the memory of her heyday in 1930s Hollywood and her marriage to Moss Hart, whose play 'Once in a Lifetime' is being revived next week at the Natio…
Elton John, 'a grumpy old sod' who has never been afraid to speak his mind, tells Neil McCormick about his spat with George Michael, and what he really thought about Live8. And the man who w…
Kate Battersby recalls the thrill of the National Theatre's landmark 1982 production
Charles Spencer reviews Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre
Watching the magnificent production that opened last night on Shaftesbury Avenue, even a doubting Thomas like me was left in no doubt that I was in the presence of a masterpiece.
The whole cast is blessed with a freshness and sincerity I have rarely seen equalled, and one leaves this triumphant production in a mist of tears and joy.
Jane Krakowski, the gutsy Elaine from 'Ally McBeal', is starring in London's new 'Guys and Dolls'. The actress talks to Rebecca Tyrrel
Charles Spencer reports from New York, where theatres are staging what amounts to a mini-festival of great American plays
Elton John always wanted to write a British musical, and in the hit film 'Billy Elliot' he found the perfect subject. He tells Lee Hall, his collaborator on the eagerly awaited new stage mus…
The public fell in love with Andrew Lloyd Webber during the TV search for a Dorothy to star in his 'Wizard of Oz’ in the West End. He tells John Preston about the new songs he has comp…
Ahead of Danny Boyle's theatrical adaptation of Frankenstein Olivia Parker looks at five films inspired by Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic.
Gentle reader, for the past two nights I have supped full with horrors. Frankenstein rating: * * * *
Anna Nicole is underpinned by compassion for the eponymous heroine and scorn for forces that mould, and then destroy her, says Rupert Christiansen. Rating: * * * * *
Mark-Anthony Turnage says: 'We haven't been cruel about people'
Keira Knightley impressively wins her theatrical spurs in Lillian Hellman's melodrama, The Children's Hour.
As a season of his work opens in Sheffield, David Hare tells Sarah Crompton why theatre will always be his first love.
The Daily Telegraph's theatre critic loses patience and buys a ticket to find out whether the show is as bad as they say. The answer: Yes, it is.
