Edward Fox steps in to play opposite Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan's play after Robert Hardy stands down due to injuryBafta-winning actor Robert Hardy has pulled out of The Audience at the Gi…
Star whose career spanned more than 70 years played roles as Cornelius Fudge, Winston Churchill and Siegfried FarnonThe Harry Potter actor Robert Hardy has died at the age of 91, his family …
Bloom transforms St Andrew square into an immersive environment of colour, sound and texture to kick off the international festival Continue reading...
Since first picking up the mic at 15, the standup has tap-danced, done Aerosmith karaoke and starred in her own TV show. So why does she want to disappear offstage?Was there ever a greater d…
Liz Richardson's show about living with bowel disease ulcerative colitis aims to challenge people's embarrassment of 'a woman talking about poo'Toilet humour is never hard to come by at the …
The ancient myth speaks to us still, and, through the prism of Mark-Anthony Turnage's hard-hitting opera Greek, the director of a new production found insights, strange beauty and football c…
Soho theatre, LondonBy his own standards, the 2015 Edinburgh Comedy award-winner plays it relatively straight in his new show " but there are satisfyingly daft moments'There are pockets of j…
The audio genre gets its first all-singing, all-swinging show - inspired by the New York Times' 36 Questions That Lead to Love listicle and starring Frozen's Kristoff If you were under the i…
Ed Harris played pool with him. Kathy Burke called him to say sorry. He gave Lynn Nottage some 3am advice and watched the chaos of 9/11 with Matthew Warchus. Theatre stars share their encoun…
Garrick, LondonNeal Foster has created a gentle, genial show based on the bestselling book about a boy and his gran joining forces for a heist at the Tower of LondonDavid Walliams bounced on…
A theatrical adaptation of the Hitchcock classic finds clever ways to rework film techniques " and is the latest example of how the screen is influencing the stageHollywood in its infancy ra…
The actor William Hoyland, who has died aged 73, was a stalwart of the plays edited from public inquiries or trials that Nicolas Kent directed at the Tricycle theatre in Kilburn, north-west …
From Paris, Texas to Buried Child, Shepard's writing hits you in the gut. He never failed to show audiences something they'd never seen beforeSam Shepard's plays are more alive than a lot of…
Playwright, actor and director who exposed the gap between myth and reality in American lifeSam Shepard, who has died aged 73 from complications of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease, exce…
Ballot opens at noon to buy tickets for Rada-fundraising show to be held in tiny 160-seat theatre in SeptemberTom Hiddleston is to star in a Kenneth Branagh-directed production of Hamlet " b…
From the runway strut to the hoochie koochie, choreographer Trajal Harrell is turning outlaw dance forms into radical, booty-shaking spectacleThe voguing balls of Harlem, the hoochie koochie…
The Pulitzer-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor leaves behind a vast career that took him from stage to screen and back againSam Shepard, who has died aged 73, was perhaps the only…
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author, whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American we…
A college drop-out, Sam Shepard became involved in fringe theatre and won plaudits for his high-octane plays. Rock 'n' roll, drugs and the explosive tensions of life on the American edge are…
The playwright and actor on his take on Oedipus, why Derry is better than Hollywood and his regard for chaosYou wrote the cult film Paris Texas 29 years ago. Why did someone who cares so muc…
'How do I relax? I'm always relaxed'Sam Shepard, 70, was born on an Illinois army base, where his father was stationed. In the 1960s, he moved to New York, where he became an award-winning p…
Performer best known as Broadway's original Captain von Trapp and Tevye in Fiddler in the Roof, died in his hometown of Los AngelesTheodore Bikel, the Tony-nominated actor, folk singer and o…
Playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died aged 73. Best known for his play Buried Child, which won the Pulitzer prize in 1979, Shepard also enjoyed a lengthy film career, appearing in movies…
With a new collection of short stories to his name and two of his plays currently showing in New York, the notoriously private Pulitzer prize-winner discusses masculinity, his battle with dr…
The Pulitzer prize winning writer and star of stage and screen, known for performances in The Right Stuff and Bloodline, died at his home in KentuckyPlaywright, director and actor Sam Shepar…