Since its debut in May 1981, the poetically inspired Cats has become one of the most popular stage shows in the world. Forty years on, here's a look back at how the long-running musical bega…
Two-metre minimum distancing rules cap audiences at a tiny fraction of capacity and hamper tours too, say venues Theatres in Scotland have called for an urgent review of Covid-19 social dist…
The artistic director looks back at a year of crisis for the arts and ahead to a celebratory, livestreamed summer season When Shakespeare's Globe announced its reopening plans for spring, th…
Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing The stage on screen: more films about theatre At the start of Death o…
Emma Rice's adaptation of Bagdad Cafe and Harold Pinter's darkly comic The Dumb Waiter staged in July as venue reopens The Old Vic in London will welcome back theatregoers this summer in a "…
'Religious groups didn't like Jesus wearing a Superman shirt or the lack of a resurrection. So we told them the curtain call was the resurrection " when Jesus runs on and takes a bow' Godspe…
Spread of Indian Covid variant has not deterred PM from return of cinemas and indoor hospitality and permitting mixing at home Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage …
Available onlineThe cast of a whodunnit are all suspects when an impresario is found dead in this likably silly, hummable show Blackpool impresario Varthur McArthur has a doozy of an idea fo…
Pitlochry Festival theatre, onlineJohn Byrne revisits the terrain of his 1977 hit spoof Writer's Cramp to follow the fortunes of artist Pamela Crichton Capers in this dizzy audio drama Pell-…
Playwright mulls mass appeal of Osborne, who is being honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage British theatre must take …
Frances de la Tour plays another of the playwright's fascinating women in a three-minute sketch for Nottingham Playhouse's digital series If Covid-secure theatre accidentally sparked a renai…
The writer, actor, standup and documentary-maker on the things that make him laugh the most Bill Burr at the Kentish Town Forum; no fat, just great standup. It was him ripping for an hour st…
Available onlineFor the company's spring gala, the director tracks dancers backstage and on stage as they perform Robbins, Balanchine and a new work by Justin Peck It's fair to say dance on …
Available onlineLauren Pattison, Kay Greyson and Richard Boggie deliver audio plays about stage disasters, a sobering drinks interval and playing to an audience of none Some of the finest lo…
Artists and musicians speak out against proposal by education secretary and Office for Students Artists and musicians have accused the government of neglecting the country's "cultural natio…
Kwame Kwei-Armah says theatre can never go back to being something that can only be experienced by physically being there The Young Vic plans to livestream all of its future productions, its…
The comedian's 2018 show Dr Cosmos addressed mental health, midlife and Brexit " little knowing a crisis lurked around the corner. Now it's being streamed, might no mention of Covid be a sel…
Freelance performers 'forgotten' during the pandemic says top choreographer as he launches Cygnet School training programme to diversify industry Sir Matthew Bourne, one of Britain's most su…
The rising star's rich career is built on a determination to widen diversity in theatre " and bring a true voice to his roles Eben Figueiredo remembers a voice lesson at drama school in whic…
Agatha Christie's snowbound whodunnit is the world's longest-running play. Now it's leading the big reopening " with a double cast and no kissing The London West End is filled with ghost sho…
As The Death of a Black Man returns to Hampstead theatre, it's time to remember and revive Fagon's other confounding and ambitious dramas Alfred Fagon was many things before becoming a playw…
Lockdown and the loss of both parents have transformed the entertainer. He talks about the disappointments of TV, outgrowing his comic persona " and his move into the glamping business I rem…
Part of the New German Cinema boom, Helma Sanders-Brahms' 1975 film about two actors asks if theatre still has revolutionary potential The stage on screen: more films about theatre Grischa H…
For all the standing ovations, Hollywood roles and parties with stars, nothing beats the rough and tumble of real life for actor Rafe Spall The play was going well. It was going very well, a…
American stage and screen actor who won an Oscar for her role in the 1987 film MoonstruckAfter more than two decades of distinguished work in the US theatre as an actor, director and teacher…