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Brian Cox to tour in one man show
The award-winning Succession actor said the show will focus on his life and career.
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Met chief apologises to broadcaster Selina Scott over police response after violent mugging
The former news anchor, 74, said she felt ‘humiliated and angry’ after the incident
Everybody’s talking about Jamie Lloyd: the explosive rise of superstar director masterminding Evita
The maverick behind Tom Holland’s Romeo and Nicole Scherzinger’s Sunset Boulevard is now stunning passersby with Rachel Zegler’s Palladium balcony sceneRarely can a balcony have caused such a kerfuffle. But the row about the extramural staging of Don’t Cry for Me Argentina in Evita at the Lo...
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‘My heart is pounding’: experiencing Rachel Zegler’s Evita balcony scene from the humble pavement
Paying theatregoers have bemoaned watching Don’t Cry For Me Argentina on livestream while passersby experience it live for free. But is it a seven-minute stunt worth waiting for?Move over Romeo: theatre’s second most famous balcony scene has stolen the show.Every night this week Rachel Zegler ha...
Family of woman who died after drink-driver sped away from police ‘heartbroken’
Kitchen designer Lillie Clack, 22, was injured and died days after the crash in the early hours of Christmas Day 2021.
West End passersby see Rachel Zegler sing Don’t Cry For Me Argentina on balcony
The actress plays Eva Peron in Jamie Lloyd’s new production of hit musical Evita at the London Palladium.
Alan Strachan obituary
Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn Although he never worked for the National Theatre or the Royal Shakespeare Company, the theatre director Alan Strachan, who has died aged 80, was an important, intelligent, civilising f...
Paying Evita audience upset as Don’t Cry delivered offstage to West End passersby for free
Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get video feed of Rachel Zegler singing on balcony to passersbyJamie Lloyd’s production of Evita has been referred to as the hottest ticket in the West End right now, with audiences paying as much as £250 for a seat.But theatregoers keen to watc...
Theatrical hitmaker Justin Martin on Prima Facie’s follow-up: ‘It wrestles with how to bring up boys’
The director of Jodie Comer’s tour de force is now staging Inter Alia, another legal drama by Suzie Miller. He talks about steering Stranger Things: The First Shadow, resisting the classics and his double act with Stephen DaldryEarlier this year, opposing theatres in Charing Cross Road displayed â...
Stereophonic review – 70s band saga is an extraordinary, electrifying odyssey
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonThis stunningly rendered tale of a band on the brink of creative genius or total meltdown is a triumph, with a standout cast and scoreIf you’ve ever wanted to step into a 1970s recording studio, get to the Duke of York’s pronto. Stereophonic’s set designer David...
Pictured: Victim of London’s latest fatal cycle crash as parents hit out at ‘unsafe’ West End junction
Critical Mass demonstration held after death of 24-year-old Jamal Yahya Pratley on his way to work
From Hadestown to Hercules: ancient myths are the gods’ gift to musicals
Newly arrived in the West End, Disney’s demigod is the latest mythological A-lister to knock out showtunes. Why are deities such as Hermes and the ‘half-blood’ Percy Jackson having a moment in musical theatre?Ancient Greek dramas have long thrived on the West End stage. In recent times: Sophie...
London's Oxford Street 'at serious risk' from shoplifters and phone snatchers, warn retailers
High Streets UK, a group that represents 5,000 UK businesses, is calling for ring-fenced funding for police to protect key shopping destinations
Outlander’s Sam Heughan to play Macbeth in Royal Shakespeare Company debut
The British theatre company has announced a new raft of programming.
Barbara Ferris obituary
Actor who began her career in ‘dolly bird’ roles and became the star of plays by Edward Bond and David HareIt was once said of the actor Barbara Ferris, who has died aged 88, that she was the only one of Joan Littlewood’s girls at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in London, who started out w...
From nude Harry Potter to a scribbled Hitler: meet the man behind theatre’s most eye-grabbing posters
He created the iconic Phantom of the Opera mask, made Daniel Radcliffe go topless and even had his Führer design banned on the tube. Theatreland’s go-to graphic artist Bob King talks us through his boldest designsOperation Mincemeat is a tale of courage against the odds – and that goes for the ...
‘A steamy wrestle’: Guardian article inspires play on Shakespeare and Marlowe collaboration
Exclusive: Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, coming to West End, imagines rival dramatists working togetherA Guardian report on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe being literary rivals and collaborators has inspired a play that will be staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Lond...
‘None of this should have worked’: David Adjmi on how Led Zeppelin sparked Broadway smash Stereophonic
The playwright was about to quit theatre but hearing Babe I’m Gonna Leave You led to a sensational, Tony-winning collaboration with Arcade Fire’s Will ButlerIn 2013, I was desperately looking for a way to quit writing plays. I’d had a terrible, scarring artistic collaboration a couple of years...
Mrs Warren’s Profession review – Imelda Staunton in formidable form as brothel-keeper
Garrick theatre, London Filial tangles, played with the actor’s real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned drama to lifeThis is not the first production of George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned 1893 play about a mother-daughter reckoning to cast a real-life mother an...
Gawn Grainger obituary
Actor, playwright and screenwriter who was a stalwart of the National Theatre under Laurence OlivierThe actor and writer Gawn Grainger, who has died aged 87, had an extraordinary career that spanned more than 70 years. Even if rarely the star, he had the resilience and versatility of the born charac...