Features

The Diary: James Franco; ICA; Michael Sheen; Steven Berkoff; Miranda Hart

Inside Features

Guy Laliberté: The space cadet with a nose for business

Thursday, 17 February 2011

The Cirque du Soleil founder tells Alice Jones about his new Michael Jackson show – and going into orbit

Black Swan not BS

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Casting an eye over one of the most demanding "doubles" in classical ballet may never be quite the same again.

Sir Henry Irving: The Guv'nor is still taking centre stage

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Sir Henry Irving's Somerset home has been honoured with a plaque. Charles Nevin joins the theatricals at the ceremony

The Diary: Tracey Emin; Chortle's 10th Comedy Awards; National Theatre's Frankenstein; Daniela Lavender; Evening Standard British Film Awards

Friday, 11 February 2011

Hit and myth as Homer hits Hampstead

Friday, 11 February 2011

A couple of years ago, my friend and dramaturg Tilman Raabke asked me to write a play for Theatre Oberhausen in the Ruhr region of German. The idea was to commission five European playwrights with each of us handling a particular section of the Odyssey. I had read the Odyssey as a boy and was always interested in Penelope's suitors. These are the despicable men who hung around her house eating her food, drinking her wine and all the time trying to win her love while her husband, Odysseus, took the long road home. They felt perfect for the stage.

"Ordinary Days"? Hardly

Thursday, 10 February 2011

An awful lot is packed into the 80 minutes of "Ordinary Days" – a small musical with a big heart currently playing at the Trafalgar Studios.

Two good reasons for a very hot ticket

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss are the latest famous faces to grace the West End stage

Preventing knife crime

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Last week, ten youths attacked a member of our staff who was on his way home after delivering workshops for the National Youth Theatre’s social inclusion programme.

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The Portrait's costumier reveals all

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

In this video costume designer Dan Potra takes you through the costume department of an Opera North production of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's The Portrait, which will be playing throughout February and the beginning of March in Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham and Salford.