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Dancers from around the world are stomping the floorboards and leaping into the air as they show off their best moves in Dublin this week. The event draws 5,000 performers from Ireland and o…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonThis bedroom drama about a man who steers a gauche student towards sex misses its chance to explore the problems of nostalgia for a pre-Aids pastBill Rosenfield, a L…
Casting directors are among the most powerful figures in showbusiness, able to make or break careers. But what exactly do they do? Laura Barnett talks auditions, callbacks " and tearsUp in h…
Coliseum, LondonENO's semi-staged production, with a 42-piece orchestra conducted by David Charles Abell, is a memorable reminder of this show's adventurousnessAfter Sweeney Todd with Bryn T…
Soho theatre, London The Chicago pair show they are masters of their art with an off-the-cuff performance that is as poignant and sharply observed as any scripted showMost writers and comics…
Barbican, LondonI've always thought there's a dodgy brilliance to Carousel. Musically it is far and away the most sophisticated of the Rodgers and Hammerstein operettas, yet lyrically it com…
Director and producer whose 60-year career spanned television, theatre and film " from The Jewel in the Crown to Pinter playsIn an age when it is fashionable for directors to be regarded as …
Artist Tania Bruguera knows about power struggles: she's been jailed and says she'll run for the Cuban presidency. So the co-dependency in Samuel Beckett's Endgame makes it the perfect play …
Soho theatre, LondonAs well as diagnosing the entertaining eccentricities of patients, musical comic Kay issues an electrifying clarion call on behalf of NHS staffMusical comic Adam Kay is a…
Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera HouseThe Australian Ballet's first offering of 2017, including a new commission from Tim Harbour, is a lively if disjointed foray into contemporary chor…
11 April 1933: As well as being a successful playwright, Wallace created the character King Kong and was one of the most widely read authors in the world In "The Green Pack," which is the la…
Dorfman Theatre, LondonPlaywright explores consciousness, morality and human behaviour in stimulating work that occasionally suffers from information overloadTom Stoppard famously uses drama…
Play about maths genius equals Matilda's record, as Helen Mirren has first win and Top Hat is named best musicalThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time dominated the UK's most pres…
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonKathryn Hunter is magnetic as Out of Africa author Karen Blixen, but this busy staging of four of her stories fails to illuminate her enigmatic characterKare…
The photographer David Levene went backstage at the Olivier awards in London, amid the likes of Mark Rylance, Billie Piper and John Boyega Continue reading...
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA crisp combination of stillness and urgency powers Caryl Churchill's teasing speculations on identityCaryl Churchill's two-hander zips along in an hour, so most eveni…
The West End arm of the Harry Potter universe may have broken Olivier award records, but its true success is in making theatre universally appealingHarry Potter and the Cursed Child's record…
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won a record-breaking nine awards at the Olivier awards on Sunday, including best new play. Best supporting actress Noma Dumezweni used her speech to highli…
The great and the good of theatre descended upon the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday night, as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child dominated the UK's most prestigious theatre awards Continue readi…
The Cursed Child wins nine categories, including best actor, while Billie Piper takes best actress award for performance in Yerma The Harry Potter empire has added domination of the stage to…
Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the TV series The Jewel in the CrownThe only unexpected thing about the wonderful actor Tim Pigott-Smith, who has died aged 70, was that he …
Watford PalaceEveryone is in love with this wrong person in this affectionate adaptation of Dodie Smith's novel about a bohemian family living in a crumbling castle"I write this sitting in t…
Royal Opera House; The Place, LondonThe Royal Ballet's 50th anniversary revival of Balanchine's classic sparkles despite the occasional flawIt's good to see Jewels back at Covent Garden and …
Dorfman, LondonNina Raine adroitly tackles barristers' struggles with the truth as the audience becomes the jury in a rape caseMore than Consent. Heartfelt approval. It is hard to overemphas…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonIf it's a real musical you're after, this is the one to watchForget La La Land. If you want to see hot hoofing, go to Mark Bramble's production of 42nd Street…
