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Shows around the UK are underpinned by countless unpaid hours, short-term contracts and decreasing fees. At a time of cuts, artists are afraid to rock the boatThe Office for National Statist…
Brighton Dome The emphasis is relentlessly below the waist in a frank show ostensibly about the comedian embracing rural lifeDo we have a new genre of standup? Just as Michael McIntyre did l…
The Pit, LondonA shattered ballroom is the setting for Greek company Blitz's apocalyptic vision of a lost continent where catastrophe is political and emotionalLondon has gone dark, Paris is…
Circus is a celebration of being alive " so what happens when acrobats perform in a graveyard? Yaron Lifschitz of the Australian ensemble talks about the dusk staging of their eerie new piec…
Prince Edward theatre, London Impressive stage magic, a gold-dripping design and a party-loving genie make this energetic adaptation of the animated movie a wicked treatImagine a Christmas p…
The telecast is set for 30 June from Studio 54, as the Great White Way finally catches up with the ever growing and popular live broadcast arenaThe Tony-nominated revival of the 1964 musical…
Adelphi, LondonTransfers can be tricky. But Richard Bean's updated version of Goldoni's comic classic seems, if anything, even funnier than it did at the National. The text has been shortene…
Even Clive Anderson couldn't get a word in edgeways when the Belfast-born comedian was a guest on his show. Bruce Dessau looks back at the much-missed motormouth's careerThe death of Frank C…
Lots of 'successful' directors need a second source of income. Unless fees improve, it will become a career solely for those who can afford itThere is a strange, unwritten rule among theatre…
More than 60 arts organisations lost funding in May, after severe budget cuts to the Australia Council. And the industry is fighting backArts and theatre organisations, artists and industry …
Mitchell's hit off-Broadway show about a tyrannical billionaire building a wall to 'keep out the enemy' was written in 2006 but could hardly be more topical. The folk singer discusses retell…
Twenty years after the Manchester bombing, the immersive theatre show On Corporation Street looks at those caught in the chaos " from the man having a haircut to the couple getting marriedBo…
Abbey, DublinPhillip McMahon and Raymond Scannell's 'play within music' is a sometimes awkward yet always impassioned story about a working-class woman's strugglesPlaywright Phillip McMahon …
Soho theatre, LondonThe tittering US comedian finds his own jokes hilarious in a show that offers flashes of steel beneath the surface jollityAmerican comedians aren't used to performing for…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda's show is the latest daring, original musical to emerge in the US. Britain lags behind " but the roots of a revival are in placeLin-Manuel Miranda's mega-hit Hamilton, wit…
Shakespeare in the Park, New YorkAn all-female version of Shakespeare's problem play starts with a Trump-style announcer at a beauty pageant and ends with a rousing version of Bad Reputation…
What works on Broadway doesn't always succeed in London, but despite being a deeply American story, the blockbuster musical has the potential to be universalThe Americans are coming! The Ame…
Actor best known for appearances in the Lindsay Anderson films If …. and O Lucky Man!Mary MacLeod, who has died aged 78, was a prolific character actor whose face was more familiar than he…
A political radical, as an actor he excelled at playing tortured establishment figuresCorin Redgrave, who has died aged 70, was both a formidable actor and a strenuous political activis…
The Faction's writer and director are putting women centre stage in their new production of a Maxim Gorky play In one rehearsal of Vassa Zheleznova, the new adaptation of the Maxim Gorky pla…
From Sheldon Harnick accepting his lifetime achievement award to James Corden's dad's advice to his son, here are the best lines from this year's Tonys"Think of tonight as the Oscars, but wi…
Gifted actor with a flair for comedy from a celebrated British theatrical dynastyEven by the colourful standards of her own family's public profile and professional achievements, Lynn Redgra…
The Tony awards, which mark the achievements of the theatrical world, took place on Sunday evening in New York with newcomers Hamilton making their mark, winning 11 awards. Host James Corden…
The legendary actor, 79, on ageing, religion, human rights and the notorious Oscars speech that stalled her Hollywood career'Cheers,' says Vanessa Redgrave. She clinks her glass of elderflow…
