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Mark Rylance plays the part of an opinionated eccentric in his latest role. It suits him down to the ground, he tells Dominic Cavendish.
Helen Mirren needs to raise her game to make this production of Phèdre great rather than merely good.
A theatre company tells the story of the Kursk submarine tragedy.
Sam Mendes' double bill at the Old Vic depicts the pleasure and sorrow of family life.
A production of Sister Act at the London Palladium proves more enjoyable on stage than on film.
Impresarios behind some of the West End's best-known musicals have been criticised for putting on plays in filthy conditions that include claims of rat infestations and floods of raw sewage.
Jude Law and Michael Grandage talk to theatre critic Charles Spencer about their production of Hamlet at the Wyndham's Theatre as part of the Donmar Warehouse's year-long West End season.
Matt Charman's impressively researched new play is a day trip to Africa.
The Westminster setting of Ibsen's feminist classic strikes a chord but fails to satisfy.
Actor Toby Stephens tells Tim Walker why having famous parents isn't always easy.
Wallace Shawn's play about a smug, sex-mad old memoirist is sickening.
Scottish playwright Gregory Burke's new play is pleasurable enough but fails to match his majestic Black Watch.
This adaptation of the Eighties TV mini-series deserves its flock of fans but it won't make the West End.
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Maureen Lipman has hit back at theatre critics who claimed she lacks the glamour to play a fading femme fetale in a new production of A Little Night Music.
Italian national hero, Benigni, delivers one-man show Tutto Dante - a comical yet serious enterprise.
The Italian comic is taking Dante on a world tour with his TuttoDante and London's his next stop.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are on stage together in Waiting For Godot. They discuss how this casting to die for came about.
As Patricia Hodge prepares to take her clothes off in the West End in Calendar Girls, she explains why she is performing a vital public service
The Italian comic is taking Dante on a world tour with his TuttoDante and London's his next stop.
Actor Ken Stott halted a West End performance of his latest play, A View From The Bridge, to demand that a group of rowdy schoolchildren be removed from the audience.
Douglas Hodge's production of Athol Fugard's Dimetos at the Donmar Warehouse marks it out as a neglected modern classic.
Even before her very public break-up Rosamund Pike found stardom uncomfortable. Still single - and about to play the Marquis de Sade's wife - she talks about why she's now happier with, and …
