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American playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury has been announced as the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019. Sibblies Dury won the
Whether propelling a cane across the stage or teaching Mark Rylance the three-card monte, magic consultants add spectacle to stage and screen
Jason Manford has been announced as the host of this year's Olivier Awards, which take place next month at the Royal Albert
English National opera is dropping surtitles for one performance per production in its forthcoming season. The opera company said the move had
With the cultural narrative swirling around how men control and coerce women, Henry Devas' well-timed debut tackles another side of toxic masculinity:
She got into acting after playwright Michael Frayn saw her in a school play by chance and was so impressed that he
Award-winning playwright and novelist Nigel Williams wrote My Brother's Keeper in the mid-1980s, not long after his own father had died of
Richard Alston has been making dance for 50 years; half of that time for his own company. Yet this celebratory programme, which
As Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical celebrates its 50th anniversary, and Sheridan Smith becomes the first lead cast member to
Sarah Frankcom has called for "galvanised change" to make theatre more diverse and accessible, claiming drama schools should be the "engine room"
Catherine Zeta-Jones has established a new scholarship at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama to support young talent from Wales
Rossini's 1815 opera marked his debut in Naples, where he was to remain for eight years, turning the San Carlo Theatre into
At his best, Donizetti is a wonderful exponent of the romanticism that emerged in early-1800s Italy, a particularly febrile period in operatic
Every couple of years Glyndebourne stages a new work involving its youth wing and other non-professionals, who combine with professional principals, band
Operetta is the trickiest of all genres: its performers have to be able to sing with operatic skill, put over reams of
Samuel Beckett would love me right now. For the past few months, I have been the talking, walking embodiment of his adage:
Inside Bitch "Â Royal Court, London Conceived by Deborah Pearson and Stacey Gregg, this Clean Break co-production is a devised ensemble performance created
Aidan Turner, Sophie Okonedo, Carrie Hope Fletcher and Jamael Westman are among the winners of this year's WhatsOnStage Awards, presented in London
Updates from this week include the news that Sheridan Smith will star as the narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Matthew Bourne is to be honoured with a special award for his "extraordinary achievements in dance". The prize will be his eighth
Franz Kafka's 1915 novella about a man who turns into a beetle is primarily a story of failed communication. This is also
A Cuckoo, in South Korea, is a pressure cooker for preparing rice. In Amsterdam-based artist Jaha Koo's solo performance-lecture, visiting Ghent's Same
Further productions of To Kill a Mockingbird have reportedly been shut down after legal threats by producer Scott Rudin over the rights
This March, a new series of shows at the Cervantes Theatre will showcase female theatremakers from Madrid under the title Madrid Is
This theoretically involved but theatrically impotent creation is the result of a collaboration between filmmaker Charles Atlas and choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and
