Life's been a funfair ride for David Essex by Dominic Wells
'All that bedroom poster stuff surprised me,' says the former teen dreamboat - who's now a granddad three times over
'All that bedroom poster stuff surprised me,' says the former teen dreamboat - who's now a granddad three times over
The trend towards rock'n'roles means plenty of blue-sky (and rain-cloud) thinking for enterprising drama companies
It's directed, with strained jollity undercut by a creeping inertia, by its star, Tom Conti, alongside Tom Kinninmont.
Is there a more enchanting actress on the British stage than Janie Dee?
Most of us became critics because we love the theatre and are thrilled when we're able to chronicle a promising career
As the smash musical returns over forty years since the original, Alan Franks looks at the London of then and now
The world's fastest interview - 140 characters per answer. The opera director on lust, luvvies and Labouring over the arts
They're young, they're keen and they know how to tell a story. This year's National Student Drama Festival is full of talent
Sebastian Barry demystifies the saint of 19th-century literature but should he have portrayed Hans Christian Andersen as a fool?
If it helped Maggie Smith to beat her stage fright after cancer, her son Toby Stephens would team up with her, he says
As the Broadway production of the tribal rock musical comes to London, we are reminded of the swinging era when we still had Hair
Wicked is the biggest thing in musicals since The Phantom of the Opera opened - and other theatres are green with envy
The two theatrical knights met last week for the first time in years, and The Times had a front-row seat
The pleasure of watching Siân Phillips and Michael Byrne persuade us of the reality of a December love is enormous
Jeremy Irons's dramatic opening Lear-style act is sadly the highpoint of this production. Then it's downhill all the way
The actress is a doting grandmother but she's still game for a bit of transgressive fun
Are they employed to tread the boards for marketing purposes or do film stars have something to offer theatre?
Acting in the great whodunnit was exhausting, says Georgina Bouzova - and the tears she shed were often real
When Kean gave his Richard III, a virtuoso villain who died writhing and gnashing his teeth, Byron wanted to write a tragedy for him
A new play uses puppetry to back up the words of military wives in Three Good Wives at the Little Angel Theatre, N1
The writer tells how it feels to find one of his novels adapted for the theatre for the first time