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From gobby machinist to preening landlady of the Rovers Return, Liz Dawn's 34 years in Coronation Street made her one of the
David Farr’s hectic 1996 football comedy Elton John’s Glasses " here given its first UK revival by Psyche Stott " is a
It would have been enough to have been known as the man who launched Barbra Streisand's career, but Barry Dennen was himself
Nobody expected the 1983 movie Flashdance to be a hit. The story of the welder-by-day, dancer-by-night turned out to be the perfect
The Royal Theatrical Support Trust has renamed its flagship directing award after the late Peter Hall, who died last month. The RTST
Brighton Festival has announced visual artist David Shrigley as its 2018 guest director. The multi-arts festival has also revealed part of its
The new festival director of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival has been announced as Daniel Brine. Brine is artistic director and chief
Theatre Royal Drury Lane is one of the jewels in the West End's crown and the proposed redevelopment of the building is
Spare Tyre Theatre Company continues its creative engagement with the care sector with this gentle, participatory piece for people with dementia. A
I Knew You is Steven Camden's (otherwise known as spoken word artist Polarbear) second play, it's an agreeable but curiously slight piece
Romantics Anonymous " A New Musical, at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe from October 20-January 6, 2018 Angelique makes beautiful chocolates,
Alan Ayckbourn’s earliest theatrical trilogy The Norman Conquests originally premiered at Scarborough in 1973 before becoming a long-running West End success. It
Shobna Gulati and Pauline McLynn are among the cast of an age-blind, diverse production of Daisy Pulls It Off, directed by Paulette
Conor McPherson's Girl from the North Country will transfer to the West End following a run at the Old Vic in London.
Centred on the passions and pains of an operatic diva, Tosca gives Puccini permission to use his full, seductive box of tricks
The latest star vehicle for Strictly faves Flavia Cacace and Vincent Simone inadvertently offers a deeply dismal and reductive take on modern
There's more to clowning than red noses and big tops " Katharine Kavanagh looks at the groups using their circus skills to
With no rehearsals, cast bonding or even full scripts, the idea of cue-script Shakespeare left actor and comedian Viv Groskop terrified. Now
The decision by Parents in Performing Arts (PIPA) to go from a campaign to a limited company is a welcome move. Seriously
Theatre is necessarily a minority activity: even in London's five largest theatres " the London Coliseum, London Palladium, Royal Opera House, Theatre
I started a new job yesterday, the week after my daughter started her first year of primary school. I heeded her advice
When the Broadway rock musical first opened in London's West End in 1968, with scenes of nudity, drug-taking and a strong anti-war
Few living playwrights get to see two of their new plays run concurrently in the West End. Fewer still can boast a
Amber Massie-Blomfield, the executive director of Camden People's Theatre in London, is to step down next year. Massie-Blomfield joined the theatre in
A new fund has been launched to encourage arts organisations to experiment with immersive technology. Arts Council England and Digital Catapult will
