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It’s a superlative time for alternative memoirs this month, with offerings from Steven Berkoff and Stephen Sondheim. Berfkoff’s autobiography, Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent, is highly intimate, focusing on family life and friends and ene… […]

Actor Harry Treadaway, who opens in the Royal Court’s production of Nina Raine’s Tribes on 20 October, is best known for his appearance in Ibsen’s Ghosts::E8831267004510 which played the Duchess Theatre earlier this year. His […]

In the glossy programme, which I don’t buy (at £10) but borrow from a little boy, Doctor Who’s introduction promises “a dangerous and electrifying experience” and urges us to “have fun”. Well which is it, […]

Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, this week are: OPENING TONIGHT, Monday 11 October 2010 (previews from 6 October), Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove star in Rufus Norris’ revival […]

A selection of Glee-inspired family shows look set to fill the UK’s theatres this autumn, with producers keen to build on the success of the all-singing, all-dancing E4 television show. Announced today, Gleemania will unite […]

A selection of Glee-inspired family shows look set to fill the UK’s theatres this autumn, with producers keen to build on the success of the all-singing, all-dancing E4 television show. Announced today, Gleemania will unite […]

It’s a screen-to-stage musical of a different kind – rather than adapting source material from the cinema (or television) screen, we’re taking our material from the computer screen – and you. Yes, your favourite theatre […]

Both the National Theatre’s artistic director Nicholas Hytner and Olivier award-winning Rory Kinnear confirmed over two years ago that they would work together on a Shakespeare tragedy, but it took until last night (7 October […]

Nobody expects the arts to escape the public spending squeeze, and there has been a lot of talk about the replacement of the current funding system with something more like the American model, which is […]

As drama, Radamisto looks forward to later opera seria, as far even as Mozart, and as a result is more dramatically effective than almost any other Handel opera seen recently in London.   The patched […]