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Stage designer and portrait painter, renowned for her work with the choreographer Kenneth MacMillanYolanda Sonnabend's professional career as a stage designer was blessed with success from t…
Vadim Muntagirov and Lauren Cuthbertson take the lead roles in Frederick Ashton's classic ballet The Two Pigeons at the Royal Opera House in London Continue reading...
Robert Lindsay, John Simm, Susannah Fielding and others get ready to make a great entrance in these exclusive photographs by Matt Humphrey whose company Curtain Call is producing a book of b…
To celebrate #LoveTheatreDay, four stage professionals share what they think makes theatre so special " and why it needs our support#LoveTheatreDay 2015 " liveA list of the theatres and grou…
Wolverhampton GrandDavid Hasselhoff plays a nightclub owner who once, strangely, starred in Baywatch in this creaky addition to his personality cultMany actors, rattling around Britain in a …
Polly Stenham's That Face has been hailed as a great debut, but a playwright's first professional production is rarely really their first workPolly Stenham wrote That Face when she was 19. P…
On 18 November, more than 300 theatres and groups from across the world will join audience members to celebrate #LoveTheatreDay on TwitterHow you can get involvedA list of the theatres and g…
As a nude Canadian troupe challenges the attitudes of London audiences to the body, we look at uses of nakedness in contemporary dance " to unsettle, to probe and to enlighten Continue readi…
The French biologist turned choreographer on media fascination with his 'story' and his new work, a six-hour 'art exhibition' performed in the nudeNaked bodies are heaped in a mound. Faces p…
Katherine Soper awarded £16,000 and residency at Royal Exchange for 'first proper play' about mental health and changes to the benefits systemThe UK's biggest playwriting competition has …
He bet his mum he'd be a superstar DJ in two years. Now he looks set to be a superstar stage director as well. The rising star talks mind-reading, discovering Plan B " and rescuing Sondheim …
The Star Trek actor debuts on Broadway in Allegiance, a new play about Japanese Americans placed in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl HarborGeorge Takei is still best known for pla…
Temporary theatre, LondonWils Wilson turns Jon Klassen's laconic picture book into a boisterous delight of a show that keeps no secrets about the land of make-believe from its audience The k…
Shaftesbury theatre, LondonSkilful money-making from Britain's Got Talent's Jamie Raven and forensic mind-reading from Colin Cloud add charm to this gaudy, showbiz affair Astonishingly, this…
The theatre marquees will go dark for one minute on 8 December to mark the death of the Tony-winning author of Dancing at LughnasaBroadway theatres will dim their lights next month in memory…
Dozens of cultural organisations will join forces in 2016 as part of a cross-disciplinary fiesta to mark 400 years since Shakespeare's death, including a major exhibition at the British Libr…
The rider Herwig Radnetter is partnered with a Lipizzaner stallion in the Spanish Riding School's majestic shows, which demand discipline, balance and the shiniest shoesThe Spanish Riding Sc…
Flea Theater, New YorkThe blockbuster director goes low-budget to take on Jennifer Haley's vision of gaming gone wrong, which remains more sensational than it is complexWhat has the internet…
For the country that popularised drama, this dance of passion offers a welcome catharsis during troubled times Under the stars, chest-to-chest, they move in silent embrace. The clock has str…
Philip Purser, in his obituary of Warren Mitchell (16 November), surprisingly made no mention of Unity Theatre as a formative experience. Mitchell, along with other household names like Alfi…
"I don't get people wanting to watch live theatre beamed into a cinema," says Peter Bradshaw (Another Fiennes mess, My Week, 14 November). And so, Peter, we can assume that you, say, live in…
On Stage: Live from Television Centre, far from being a one-off experiment, could signal a new direction at the BBCSubversive, anarchic, mischievous, unpredictable: not words that could ofte…
A new production at Brooklyn Academy of Music's 2015 Next Wave festival mixes visuals, paranoia and a jazz-tinged soundtrack to explore the nature of conspiracy theories Continue reading...
Isaac Butler's production uses an anxiety-inducing score and set to bring audience members face to face with some of America's classic conspiraciesIf you've ever toyed with the idea that the…
The reviews are in for the Die Hard star's Broadway debut in a stage version of Stephen King's novel Bruce Willis makes his Broadway debut as the author Paul Sheldon, who is tormented by one…
