As Lenny Henry prepares a major radio series on the history of black drama, we look at the triumphs " and travails " of its starsA tale long overdue, the story of the black actors, directors…
Victoria Palace, LondonTurning small-scale movies into big musicals is a treacherous business. It failed with The Full Monty, which lost all of its gritty truth when musicalised. But Billy E…
Stars gather in London to celebrate fifth birthday of show taking the world by stormOnce it might have been thought that a musical tale about an aspiring 11-year-old dancer set during the mi…
The finest play I've read in manuscript before being produced is Translations by Brian Friel, in my opinion still the wisest and most perceptive understanding of the issues around Anglo-Iris…
Playwright's comment that he was 'happy-ish' about a TV version of his play starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins was interpreted as criticismPlaywright Ronald Harwood has said he is "ex…
Grande dame of French film whose career spanned more than a half-centuryDanièle Delorme, who has died aged 89, began acting professionally in 1942 and continued until the end of the c…
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, LondonI suppose there are two ways to approach this mega-musical: either as a paid-up Tolkien aficionado or as a wide-eyed newcomer. Having dipped only briefly int…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe world's deepest cave is a metaphor for hell in La Veronal's arcane but rewarding production that's indebted to BuñuelToday's choreographers must know more than d…
Tricycle theatre, LondonMarcus Gardley's reworking of Molière's Tartuffe has spark, but lacks driveTwo or three speeches in A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes have a rare sumptuousness, a lip-smacki…
Chichester Festival theatreDavid Hare's vibrant reboots of three early plays bring out the wilder side of ChekhovThis is a season of theatrical marathons. At Kingston, The Wars of the Roses …
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonPatrick Hamilton's melodramatic play is superbly acted and grippingly directed Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington says stage programming seems to be …
John Osborne the 'young crusader' and Terence Rattigan the 'old fogey' is a given of theatrical history. But there are many similarities between the playwrightsThe first night of the play th…
From Halloween marathons to Patti Smith in conversation and the return of trance; here are this week's cultural highlightsFILM EVENT The best scares on screens this Halloween Continue readin…
Boyle sues the Mirror for libel, Silverman learns not to cross a rabbi, and Stephen K Amos gets the last " and longest " laughWe've been arguing about "offensive" comedy for years.…
Finborough theatre, LondonThis inventive production of a Yiddish classic takes potshots at the corrupting power of moneyThis astonishing theatre's latest discovery is a Yiddish classic by Da…
The comedian talks about her family's exile from Iran and using humour to defuse the fear of regular death threats to her fatherMy earliest memories growing up in Tehran were the kittens in …
Hussein Chalayan: Gravity Fatigue | The Royal Ballet: Viscera, Afternoon Of A Faun, Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux & CarmenCelebrated fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has already had some conn…
Land Of Our Fathers | The Choir | Husbands & Sons | Pomona | The Moderate Soprano | The DistanceWales Millennium Centre revives Chris Urch's 2013 debut play. Setting out on a tour that w…
Festival Of The Spoken Nerd: Just For Graphs | Sarah Millican: Outsider | Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse: Legends!While it might have seemed appropriate when they started out, the name …
Two-part play to pick up where the last novel left off, following Albus Severus at Hogwarts and Harry's life as an employee at the Ministry of MagicThe West End play Harry Potter and the Cur…
Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-SeaBoyle delivers his vicious one-liners as palate cleansers between heartfelt routines beating us for our bovine acquiescence to political authority"It's not al…
Custom House, EdinburghThis sumptuous site-responsive tour touches on food as both source of pleasure and harbinger of mortalitySome say all theatre is about sex or death. It's certainly the…
Once upon a time, Ibsen and Chekhov were primetime fare. So why is theatre never on TV any more? Broadcasters are missing a trickIn early 1965 Granada produced Thomas Middleton's Women Bewar…
Speaking ahead of the broadcast of the BBC adaptation of The Dresser, actor says he hopes BBC will take courage and bring more one-off dramas to screensIan McKellen has called for more plays…
Move breaks with traditional approach over festive period, and marks first time a musical has been shown live on national televisionITV will broadcast a live performance of The Sound of Musi…