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Found111, LondonAndrew Scott, Joanna Vanderham and David Dawson excel in a riveting true-life play about obsessive sibling hoardersFound111 is proving to be an inspiring dramatic place. Firs…
Everyman, LiverpoolThe long-running rock'n'roll panto delivers an inspiring heroine, magnificent mayhem and a soaking for the audienceSomeone is sitting in my place. He is smaller than me. W…
Olivier, LondonDamon Albarn's didactic musical has an interesting premise but fails to translate online curiosities into stage magicHard to believe but true. The most surprising moment in wo…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonA tight script, beguiling design and Converse trainers instead of glass slippers make this Cinders a winnerThe Lyric's Cinderella is its own mixture of saucy and swe…
Who could disagree that, ten years on, the Abba musical extravaganza Mamma Mia! is still unbelievably good?It's not often I arrive at the theatre in a grump, but a long and unexplained bus d…
Social propaganda comes to St Martin's Theatre, London, on March 14 1921Clemence Dane, Noël Coward wrote, "manages to wreak more havoc in a small space of time than an army of deli…
26 December 1906: Mr Barrie is concerned mainly with the fancies the reading of our first book of adventures conjured up in our mindsIf it were possible to reach manhood and womanhood withou…
Many interviewees have shed a tear in Lynn Barber's company, but what prompted top Hollywood toff Julian Fellowes to start blubbing?The story of Julian Fellowes is a good answer to anyone wh…
Talking cats delighted you, Imelda Staunton moved you to tears and Damon Albarn conjured wonder … we asked you to choose the best shows you've seen this year and were flooded with rave rev…
Contemporary dancer, choreographer, teacher and tireless advocate of independent artistsGill Clarke, who has died of cancer aged 56, was one of the foremost contemporary dancers of her gener…
Comedian's alma mater to offer BA in comedy practices that will cover performance, writing and the industryWhatever you do, don't dismiss Salford University's new degree in comedy as a joke.…
The fast-rising Color Purple actor lamented the lack of opportunity for black women on screen in an interview with the New York TimesThe British actor Cynthia Erivo has said that British fil…
Complex writing, leftfield family shows and thoroughly bleak dramas make theatre stages far from jolly this Christmas. Praise be, then, for the new wave of pseudo-pantoThe theatrical form mo…
Radical hip-hop history, reinvented modern classics and emotive musicals led a wave of innovative and poignant plays on and off-BroadwayAt this point it's almost embarrassing to devote any m…
Rowland Wymer (Letters, 18 December) refers to original sources which would logically lead to Innogen's protagonist being called Giacomo. Simon Forman, the other source for "misspelling" of …
Burton Taylor Studio, OxfordIt may not have the most sophisticated narrative, but this tale of Santa looking for a polar bear pal is an engaging and funny Christmas treatLast year, the Oxfor…
Backstage at Hackney Empire's pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, on until 3 January 2016Photographs by Carl Court/Getty Images Continue reading...
It looks a million dollars and has a great premise. But what's it about? Don't worry wonder.land, there's still time to make improvements"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a fe…
The year brought radical rethinkings of Chekhov and Beckett, superior Shakespeares and new plays that were daring, engaging and powerfulChekhov wrote so few plays, which are revived so often…
Three-day BroadwayCon to be held in New York and will feature seminars, panels and masterclasses led by theatre veteransThere will be meet-ups for fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber or Stephen Sond…
Charismatic Italian actor who starred in Antonioni's L'Avventura and played opposite George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret ServiceThe Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 9…
Casting a black actor in the role of a traditionally white character never fails to cause an outcry, so who could be next " and what would the consequences be?As you might have heard recentl…
We're in the season where the biggest pop music stars of the 90s fill theatres all over again " as the stars of pantos up and down the UKThere was a time, somewhere between 1996 and 1999, wh…
Black actor Noma Dumezweni has been cast as Hogwarts' brainiest pupil in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The decision is a welcome challenge to the assumption that heroes are white by def…
Billy Warren, currently appearing with Duncan James and Joe Pasquale in Aladdin at Southampton's Mayflower theatre, tells us what it's like doing two challenging performances every dayWe do …
