Features

Jon Fosse: All the world loves his plays. Why don't we?

Europe's most performed writer can't crack the UK. Brian Logan asks the author if his new play will

Inside Features

Heads Up: The Government Inspector

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Barratt's break – from Mighty Boosh to nightly boards

The all-singing, all-dancing, Harry Potter

Thursday, 28 April 2011

There was a lovely moment at the post-curtain call "Equity Cares" auction on the night I was in town (NYC, that is) to see Frank Loesser’s treasurable How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

Agenda: Topshop's Secret Store; SJ Watson; Psychoville; Breakin' Convention; Santigold

Sunday, 24 April 2011

A feast of culture: The best arts events over the Easter break

Friday, 22 April 2011

Fed up with egg hunts? Then put a bounce in your break with Pina Bausch on film, Ghost on stage, acrobatics on the South Bank and much more. Elizabeth Davis selects the holiday's cultural highlights

Cultural Life: Deborah Warner, Director

Friday, 22 April 2011

Books: I can't read while rehearsing and so all I'm managing at the moment is a page or two of Amanda Vickery's 'Behind Closed Doors' – a vivid and quirky domestic history of Georgian England. I was invited last October to go to the High Arctic with Cape Farewell. For months after I read nothing but books on climate change and the Arctic/Antarctic experience: Tim Flannery's 'The Weather Makers', 'With Scott to the Pole', a wonderful collection of Herbert Pontings photographs of the 1910-1913 expedition, and Stephen J Pyne's 'The Ice: a Journey to Antarctica'.

Gardenia: A human tale, no matter how you dress it up

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Brighton Festival's dance show, set in a transvestite cabaret, will be an intriguing look at growing old, says Zoë Anderson

The Diary: Scotsman Steps; Brighton Festival Fringe; Venice Biennale; Theatre Royal Bath; Jarvis Cocker

Friday, 15 April 2011

Munchkins are the unsung heroes of Wizard Of Oz stage show

Friday, 15 April 2011

If you're off to the see the wonderful Wizard Of Oz, as adapted from the classic movie by Andrew Lloyd Webber, spare a thought for those most unsung members of the cast on stage at the London Palladium, the Munchkins. For these children aged between five and 13, Munchkinhood may well the first step on the yellow brick road that leads to the magic kingdom of a stage career.