Dmitry Krymov, who fled Moscow after the Ukraine invasion, plans Dickens hybrid with UK and Russian actors The acclaimed Russian stage director Dmitry Krymov the winner of many of Moscow's t…
As the Austrian capital honours the legacy of its dance king, the race is on to attract the most punters The music of Johann Strauss streams through Vienna like the stately Danube. Even the …
Alasdair Buchan, who directed his version aged 11 in 1997, will play mysterious stranger in long-running whodunnit As the curtain falls on every performance of The Mousetrap, the world's lo…
As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake The striking name of the playwright and novelist Aphra Behn, pioneering que…
TV head hopes programme will spark 'a #MeToo moment for men' ahead of two-part show on the Oscar-winning actor One of the producers of a Channel 4 documentary that contains fresh claims that…
New arts lobby group says plight that hits even top bodies such as Royal Shakespeare Company makes entire country poorer The vast majority of England's biggest subsidised cultural institutio…
The coal miner's daughter who set up the Open University and the Arts Council and was Britain's youngest MP is the subject of two new shows 'Behind every great man stands a great woman," the…
The literary department at the London theatre is renowned for taking risks with untried playwrights, but is now under threat The Royal Court is known for putting the names of emerging playwr…
Before publishing his vampire classic in 1897, the author was employed as a personal secretary at the Actors' Benevolent Fund The imagination of Bram Stoker gave life to one of literature's …
The Doctor Who and Thick of It actor laments the lack of support for emerging talent from working-class backgrounds ' Read the full interview with Peter Capaldi Britain's cast of leading act…
Theatreland is taking a gamble on a wave of quirky little shows to challenge the big but tired box office beasts A fresh kind of musical theatre show, set apart by having started life on th…
Windsor and Maidenhead scraps cultural budget in wake of similar moves in Suffolk, Bristol, Nottingham and Birmingham The chill blast of damaging cuts to provincial arts venues has returned …
Venues across the UK closed over building safety fears sprinkle a little magic to keep their shows on the road Every good pantomime needs a menacing villain to threaten all the fun, and this…
The 1970s star blazed the way for mass-audience satire in Britain. But is there an appetite for it now? As the entertainment world mourns the death at 82 of Britain's most popular televisio…
String of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens Running a theatre has become a seriously unappealing job, according to many of those working at Brita…
Performers and producers say arts are being 'sanitised' amid more sensitive attitudes towards swearing and sexual politics An annual "poster war" has raged between rival promoters for as lon…
The historical novelist's first play looks again at the 'panto villain' image of the king reviled by Shakespeare There is one king who simply will not lie down quietly and stay in the past. …
Producers of West End show Vardy v Rooney say surprise legal move to trademark a pun will be referred to in script A big publicity boost for a West End show can come from the most unexpected…
Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions The BBC and the National Theatre are facing rising hostility over two high-profile production…
The Time Traveler's Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage Female readers are the acknowledged force behind the market in published …
The 1982 play stills pulls in crowds from Broadway to Helsinki, and is now returning to the West End for a fifth time. 'I just can't understand it,' says its creator The arrival of anythin…
Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times This Christmas, whatever the weather, it wil…
Xander Parish, who fled St Petersburg in March, talks about his performance this weekend with Russian and Ukrainian artistes When the dancer Xander Parish made his return to the London stage…
Young Latina whose act tackles disability is among the winners at prestigious awards ceremony Both of the top prizes for being funny at the 2022 Edinburgh fringe festival have gone to foreig…
Australian comedian scoops £10,000 prize as Mexican-born American Lara Ricote is named best newcomer The top comedy prizes at this year's Edinburgh festival fringe have gone to foreign ta…