After the Ball review at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London " 'stilted and jarring'
Ian Grant's After the Ball explores how war breaks down the things that people consider integral to their sense of self. Despite opening
Ian Grant's After the Ball explores how war breaks down the things that people consider integral to their sense of self. Despite opening
Parts of the Shaw Theatre in central London have been damaged by a fire that broke out earlier this afternoon (March 9).
Musical Theatre has its fair share of bloody moments, what with its man-eating plants and demon barbers. Now writers Anita Vettesse and
At Sky, Stuart Murphy was responsible for channels including Sky 1, Sky Living and Sky Arts. In his post, he spearheaded Sky's increase in investment in original productions, tripling the bu…
"Who is more admirable?" ask Pavlos Christodoulou, "David Attenborough or the Dalai Lama?" It's the first in a series of absurd questions
Performers and stage managers working for independent theatre companies will receive a 5.4% pay rise under a new agreement negotiated by Equity.
Kentucky-born actor, writer and activist Elizabeth Robins' play Votes for Women, first staged at the Royal Court in 1907, is animated by
Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance has launched an online course in theatre studies that it claims will offer an “affordable
The Musicians' Union, BECTU and Equity are demanding a special anti-harassment clause to be added to employment contracts, in a bid to
This year's Olivier Awards will centre on the global Time's Up movement, in an effort to make the industry "an even safer
Sheridan Smith and Danny Mac are among the winners of the Manchester Theatre Awards 2018, which were announced at the Lowry in
For millennials, Britney Spears' head shaving in 2007 is a seminal celeb-culture moment. For Jo Hauge, however, it has a more personal
RedBellyBlack picked up a people's choice award at the 2017 Vault Festival for A Year From Now, a show that explored ambition
For the first time in 15 years, choreographer Russell Maliphant is back onstage duetting with his collaborator and partner Dana Fouras. The
Tatty Hennessy's A Hundred Words for Snow was the pick of a triple-bill of monologues presented by Heretic Productions at the Arcola
This week, London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket has announced that Peaky Blinders actor Paul Anderson is to make his West End debut in
As Agnes Colander receives its premiere after 116 years, Nick Smurthwaite investigates why Harley Granville Barker's potentially incendiary work never made it
BBC Radio 1Xtra has recorded its first plays for broadcast, including a collaboration with new writing company Paines Plough. Sabrina Mahfouz’s With
Playwright Rory Mullarkey`s forthright, faithful and funny new translation of Anton Chekhov`s final masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard, is tailor-made for the launch
A new tour of musical Saturday Night Fever billed as a "big new music and dance spectacular" will open this year. Produced by
Mousetrap Theatre Projects is celebrating its 21st Anniversary on Sunday March 18 2018 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, raising funds to
Hermetic Arts' new show Unburied wrongfoots you from the off. It presents itself as a podcast recording. Last night, show host Carrie
In a world filled with tragedies, those that touch us most are inevitably the ones that come closest to our own lives.
The musical, as a form distinct from operetta, reached its golden age on Broadway between the 1940s and the 1970s. But it
By the end of this production of John Webster's Jacobean tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, the stage is swamped in blood. Initially