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York's railway museum tracked the city's most notorious baddie, Lee Haven Jones was an intense prince in Theatr Clwyd's Hamlet and CBeebies' Justin Fletcher stole the show with Mr Tumble in …
Broadway Theatre, New YorkDespite the controversy over a framing device featuring actor Danny Burstein in modern dress, this is a solid, well-acted rendering of the classic musicalHas it rea…
From newfound political awareness to a resurgence of clowning, 2015's comedy landscape was bumpy but invigoratingIn election year, it was apt that political comedy seemed to be back on the a…
Author tweeted approval of casting actor with South African heritage in London stage production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child JK Rowling has expressed her approval for the casting of …
Theatres in Scotland played host to the dazzling stagecraft of Robert Lepage, a striking Titus Andronicus and raucous but close-harmonising schoolgirls This summer, I was lucky to get two bi…
Snowmen detectives, sporty Santas and showbiz elves … standup comics offer their best gags to sleigh them this ChristmasBeth Vyse: Why were Rudolph and Blitzen left on the shelves over Chr…
Actor, of South African heritage, to play adult Hermione in London West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child A new London stage reimagining of Harry Potter will feature Noma D…
Actor and director to be public face of Film London, which aims to celebrate playwright's 400th death anniversary with series of radical new projectsSir Kenneth Branagh is to become the figu…
After 22 years, the Spooks star became an 'overnight success' after her performances in this year's River and Unforgotten' See the Observer's faces of 2015 in full here' Viola Davis: 'We hav…
The actor recently stepped into Penny Skinner's play Linda when Kim Cattrall was forced to cancel. Here she talks about ageing, single motherhood and script-crammingWhen Kim Cattrall withdre…
Old Vic, LondonYou'll want to save the trees, hug the fish and bellow rude rhymes in this buoyant, fully environmentalist musicalThe timing could not be better. In the week of agreement in P…
Liverpool PlayhouseAnthony Neilson's enjoyable production doesn't fully translate Shirley Jackson's astonishing prose into stage actionThe Haunting of Hill House is a play spooked by a ghost…
Crucible, Sheffield Daniel Evans's production of the 20th-century musical classic is unmissableThe star of Show Boat is, surely, the Mississippi river, its rolling presence famously extolled…
Festival theatre, EdinburghChristopher Hampson's lyrical Cinderella for Scottish Ballet delivers drama, emotion and really annoying stepsisters…A fairy-story ballet is not easy to get righ…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonMcTeer revels in the role of the cruel Marquise in Josie Rourke's staging, opposite Dominic West's curiously languid partner-in-crimeLes Liaisons Dangereuses is one o…
Paying buttons? That's behind you as some productions bring in 3D effects and real horsesPantomime was traditionally a modest but affordable affair at the local theatre, when a B-list actor …
The Capitol, Horsham"I'm not saying I'm perfect," says Sean Hughes, as he mocks all the things the rest of us do wrong. But part of Hughes's charm is that he does claim to be, if n…
The riveting and sexually charged performance by Robert Loggia as Solyony in the Actors Studio production of Three Sisters at the Aldwych theatre in 1965 is one of the reasons why Lee Strasb…
A new play at the National Theatre, Here We Go, takes an unflinching look at death. What would real-life carers think of it? We took a group to find out Continue reading...
The proposed £278m concert hall (Report, 17 December) is a prima facie case of the metropolitan cultural mafia at work. The problem with the arts in England is there is no concrete pol…
The star of BBC1's The Paradise on her offbeat new show in the West End, playing Desdemona for the RSC and demanding Alan Cumming's friendship You're starring with Andrew Scott and David Daw…
Your review of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (18 December) reminded me of how Ian Fleming came up with the name. Soldiers in the Far East had to ask for a permission slip, a chitty, to leave …
Swalec stadium, Cardiff This theatre-gig hybrid is impossible to dislike, but the average panto has rather more biteTake a pinch of psychedelia, a touch of manga, a dash of political fable a…
Leicester Square theatre, LondonCho gleefully goads the demure with an in-yer-face set that, amid the name-dropping and self-promotion, has some almost fabulous momentsIf you noticed US come…
Dancers, costume makers, set designers and musicians have worked for hundreds of hours to prepare for a run of the Nutcracker. Photographer Grigory Dukor went behind the scenes at the Mikhai…
