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Figures show that the audience for dance in the UK increased by 103 per cent between 2008 and 2009
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Vegas hopes to hit right notes as he prepares to play his comedy hero
Saturday, 12 June 2010
When Les Dawson walked on to the set of Blankety Blank as the new host of the popular 1980s quiz show, he ruffled more than a few establishment feathers.
From Dizzee Rascal to Eddie Izzard... Edinburgh Fringe line-up is revealed
Friday, 11 June 2010
The Edinburgh Fringe will continue its seemingly remorseless expansion this summer as organisers revealed the biggest line-up of artists in its 64-year history yesterday.
Dizzee Rascal tops bill at biggest-ever festival fringe
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Chart-topper Dizzee Rascal, Britain's Got Talent dance act Flawless and Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson are among the big names featuring in this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, organisers said today.
Tara Fitzgerald: 'Plenty of good roles for older actresses'
Saturday, 5 June 2010
The English actress, Tara Fitzgerald, has spoken out against the popular belief that female performers are faced with fewer work opportunities than males as they get older.
Clark's dance 'Heroes' in London
Friday, 4 June 2010
Dancers from the Michael Clark Company make a return visit to London's Barbican after a touring the country with the production come, been and gone.
![Matt Lucas will be rejoining one of his old mates from his National Youth Music Theatre days, Adam Meggido, on Thursday [30 April] when he appears in the improvised musical Showstopper! at the Leicester Square Theatre.](http://web.archive.org/web/20100613015224im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00167/72841595_167381m.jpg "Matt Lucas will be rejoining one of his old mates from his National Youth Music Theatre days, Adam Meggido, on Thursday [30 April] when he appears in the improvised musical Showstopper! at the Leicester Square Theatre."){kind=small}
Matt Lucas lands role in 'Misérables' special
Thursday, 3 June 2010
A huge, one-off production of the popular musical Les Misérables is to be staged at the O2 Arena in London featuring the comedian Matt Lucas, it was announced yesterday.
Cue fire: a peep backstage at the National
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
The National Theatre is revealing the tricks of its trade. Rob Hastings reports
£50m facelift planned for National Theatre
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
it is fair to say that not everyone was a fan of the new National Theatre building when it opened in 1976.
New Stoppard play shines light on torture in the name of freedom
Monday, 17 May 2010
Latest work by Britain's leading dramatist targets rights abuses of 'War on Terror'
Variety: The spice of life
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Though the costumes are still gaudy, the corny gags and old-hat magic have vanished as entertainment from the old school returns
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FIVE BEST PLAYS
Any Given Day
(Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh)
Linda McLean's new drama is actually two plays, a diptych in which the relationship between them doesn't become apparent until very near the end, when we can see the full arc of these regretful, terrified but somehow still hopeful characters as they sink into the depths of brutal despair. Kate Dickie from 'Red Road' stars.
(0131 228 1404) to 19 Jun
The Crucible
(Open Air Theatre, London)
Overtly a historical study of the Salem witch-hunts of 1692, but chiming with Senator Joe McCarthy's "red menace" show trials in the Fifties, Arthur Miller's brilliantly orchestrated drama is a timeless allegory of a community in the grip of moral righteousness. In this near-flawless staging, Patrick O'Kane plays hapless farmer Proctor with fervour, while Emma Cunniffe gives a heart- breaking portrait of wifely stoicism.
(0844 826 4242) to 19 Jun
Sweet Charity
(Theatre Royal Haymarket, London)
Tamzin Outhwaite makes up in blonde, bobbed personableness what she lacks in vocal variety as the eponymous Teflon-coated kook in this joyous revival of the musical about a dancer-for-hire.
(0845 481 1870) to 8 Jan
Hair
(Gielgud Theatre, London)
A joyous production of the mother of all rock musicals. It's a collection of protest clichés, love-in songs and hippie high fives ser among the Greenwich Village "tribe", in which Gavin Creel' Claude dreams he doesn't burn his draft card and instead goes to war in Vietnam.
(020 7907 7071) to 8 Jan
War Horse
(New London Theatre, London)
The National Theatre's moving adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel, adapted by Nick Stafford, about a horse sold to the cavalry and pitched into the First World War.
(0844 412 4654) to 12 Feb