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It's one big girls' night out at the theatre
Women are driving the boom in the West End as more theatres turn to female-friendly shows derived from the silver screen. Kate Youde investigates
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The hottest ticket of the summer (if you're two)
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
'In the Night Garden', the TV show hypnotic to children but unintelligible to adults, is to go on a £1m UK tour
Tom Stoppard takes on Europe's last tyrant
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Support for Belarusian theatre puts Stoppard at loggerheads with regime.
Church seeks revival with John Paul II, the musical
Friday, 2 July 2010
Mamma Mia certainly did the business in reviving Abba's worldwide reputation; now the Catholic Church is hoping a new, all-singing, all-dancing biography can do the same for John Paul II and his flock.
Alice Jones: The week in theatre - fright nights, open-air Shakespeare and an aircraft hangar
Monday, 28 June 2010
It’s only taken me four months but I’ve finally plucked up the courage to go and see Ghost Stories.
Screen plays: The growth of the live-action spin-offs
Sunday, 27 June 2010
If it's a hit on the telly, the chances are it will soon be coming to a theatre near you
Stage and screen writer Alan Plater dies at 75
Friday, 25 June 2010
Award-winning screen and stage writer Alan Plater died today after battling cancer, his agent said.
English girl is admitted to study ballet at Bolshoi
Saturday, 19 June 2010
A young ballerina is celebrating after becoming one of the first English girl to be accepted for a full diploma at the Bolshoi.
Curtain call for Brits honoured with Tonys
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Douglas Hodge and Sir Alan Ayckbourn were among the British winners at Sunday night's Tony Awards, which recognise the best theatre and musical performances on Broadway.
Jubilant Catherine Zeta Jones thanks Michael Douglas after Tony awards triumph
Monday, 14 June 2010
Catherine Zeta Jones thanked her film star husband - who she gets to "sleep with every night" - when she picked up a gong at the Tony Awards.
Everybody's dancing
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Figures show that the audience for dance in the UK increased by 103 per cent between 2008 and 2009
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FIVE BEST PLAYS
Aspects of Love
(Menier Chocolate Factory, London)
This brilliant little revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is a mini-masterpiece, with a score of insinuating beauty and real emotional muscle in which the characters, in a daisy chain of love across the French Pyrenees, in Paris and Venice and first in Montpellier, express their passions and yearning in a through-sung melodic melisma. Michael Arden, a young Broadway singer sings beautifully as the hero, and he’s well matched by Katherine Kingsley as Rose, Dave Willetts as old George, and Rosalie Craig as Giuletta.
(020 7907 7060) to 26 Sept
Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
(Shakespeare’s Globe, London)
It’s always a joy to see these marvellously plotted plays together. Dominic Dromgoole’s company of 20 actors does sterling work in the doubling department: William Gaunt, for one, is both a dignified Worcester and a hilariously whinnying Shallow. The unbuttoned, sometimes casual style at the Globe suits these plays very well, and helps release them into a new democracy beyond the RSC.
(020 7401 9919) to 3 Oct
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
(Chichester Festival Theatre)
Howard Brenton’s adaptation of Robert Tressell’s epic novel about a group of decorators doing up a house bought by the town’s mayor. Christopher Morahan makes deft use of his versatile ensemble cast, led by a quietly dignified Finbar Lynch as a muralist who attempts to instill some socialist principles into his fellow painters.
(01243 781312) to 26 Aug
Welcome to Thebes
(NT: Olivier, London)
Moira Buffini is only the second woman to have a new work staged in the Olivier and no one could accuse her of failing to rise to the challenge, with her exploration of the plight of a female protagonist who becomes the first democratic president of a third-world country that is emerging from a brutal civil war. It’s premiered in a vivid, expertly marshalled production by Richard Eyre.
(020 7452 3000) to 19 Aug
Legally Blonde
(Savoy Theatre, London)
Sheridan Smith is brilliantly warm, winning, witty and all-round adorable as Elle, who proves not to be the airhead she is taken for when she goes to Harvard Law School in this is ridiculously enjoyable musical.
(0870 871 7687) to 20 Feb