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Friday 5th March, 2010
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Oliver!
Audiences have never seemed to get enough of the British musical and this latest production looks to be no exception - it is now the biggest selling...
Chicago
Chicago has everything that makes Broadway great - it is a universal tale of fame and fortune with one show-stopping-song after another and the most...
Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers, by the playwright Willy Russell, is one of the longest-running works of musical theatre, with the 1988 West End Production still on...
Hairspray
Hairspray, the hugely popular and Tony Award-winning musical, is showing at the London Shaftesbury Theatre until October 2010. Compare and buy...
Avenue Q
Avenue Q is a musical inspired by the pioneering children's TV show Sesame Street. Avenue Q ran for over six years on Broadway and is now coming to...
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a comical present-day play about rural life that features a critically-acclaimed performance from Mark Rylance and a supporting role from Mackenzie Crook (The Office)....
Evita
Evita has been a successful West End production for over thirty years and was adapted into an academy award-winning film starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas in 1996. Compare and...
The Pitmen Painters
The Pitmen Painters is a humorous, deeply moving and timely play centred on the themes of art, class and politics. Compare and buy The Pitmen Painters tickets online.
Les Miserables
The hugely popular musical Les Miserables, based on the French novel by Victor Hugo, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a fresh take on the original production. Compare and...
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing, a musical adaptation of the classic 1987 film, tells the story of Johnny and Baby, two independent spirits who come together for the summer of their lives. Compare...
Simon Rattle interview: happy to be home
The Berlin Philharmonic conductor Simon Rattle talks about returning to his old stamping ground
Private Lives at the Vaudeville Theatre, review
Coward's Private Lives has lost none of its allure in a funny and sexy production with Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen. Rating: * * * *
Three-quarters of West End theatres 'infested with rats, mice and fleas'
Three-quarters of London's West End theatres are infested with mice, rats and fleas, a survey indicates.
The RSC's King Lear at the Courtyard Theatre, review
David Farr's King Lear lacks greatness of spirit or a coherent sense of a dramatic world. Rating: * *
National Theatre of Wales: a dramatic first
As the principality gets its own national theatre, plays are going to be popping up at venues as diverse as a miners' institute and an Army firing range.
A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol, review
A commanding production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Tobacco Factory is full of smart comic touches. Rating: * * * *
The new recruits to ballet's boot camp
It's teenage boys, not girls, who are getting the ballet bug.
Personal details of National Theatre customers hacked
Personal details of thousands of National Theatre customers have been hacked through the company's website.
My Zinc Bed at Royal & Derngate, Northampton, review
David Hare's play My Zinc Bed is not just bad, it is wicked. Rating: no stars
Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith, review
Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith ratchets up the tension with great skill and some stunning coups de theatre. Rating: * * * *
The Dead School at the Tricycle Theatre, review
In spite of powerful performances, Pat McCabe's The Dead School is sprawling and self-indulgent. Rating: * * *
Journal Intime: Piano Works by Chopin, CD review
Alexandre Tharaud (piano). Rating: * * * * *
Private Lives: hit me, baby, one more time
Richard Eyre on what drew him to direct the violent but hilarious Private Lives, starring Kim Cattrall.
The Promise at the Orange Tree Theatre, review
Ben Brown's The Promise is an even-handed look at the making of the state of Israel. Rating: * * *
Chopin Week: the Etudes
A short series to celebrate the 200th anniversay of Chopin's birth.
The female playwrights taking British theatre by storm
Lucy Prebble and Polly Stenham are among a new generation of female playwrights leading the industry, according to Sir David Hare.
Theatres 'risk ignoring talented female playwrights' says Sir David Hare
Sir David Hare, the leading writer and director, has warned that theatres are ignoring a new generation of talented female playwrights.
Culture clinic: Richard Eyre
Theatre and film director Richard Eyre submits to a little light therapy.
The Culture Secretary's home theatre goes into administration
The theatre in the home constituency of Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, has been placed into administration.
Sam Mendes's The Tempest in New York, review
Sam Mendes unveiled his version of Shakespeare's The Tempest in New York this week - but the production feels strangely muted. Rating: * * *