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Emma Cunniffe

Published: 17 April 2008

Losing Louis, currently playing at the Trafalgar, is a comedy about family, secrets and relationships. Set at the funeral of the eponymous Louis, a family is brought together in grief… Read More

Lucy Briers

Published: 17 April 2008

Quirkily svelte with a hint of her Papa around the eyes, Lucy Briers has performed just about everywhere during the course of her career with the notable exception of the… Read More

The Soldier’s Tale

Published: 17 April 2008

The cultural significance of The Soldier’s Tale, currently playing at the Old Vic, cannot be overestimated. It is the first European-Iraqi collaboration of its kind; a coming together of two… Read More

Mike Finch

Published: 17 April 2008

For the last 25 years, Circus Oz have been carrying (and, if the start of their show is anything to go by, probably burning) the flag for contemporary circus in… Read More

Paul Miller

Published: 17 April 2008

The sun is shining, the beer is flowing and June is drawing nearer. In pubs and homes around the country a shared tension is rising; a heady mix of anticipation,… Read More

Kit Hesketh Harvey

Published: 17 April 2008

Showing unnecessary humility, Kit Hesketh Harvey, who wrote the book for the dark and spangly extravaganza that is Beautiful And Damned at the Lyric, describes himself as “a hack”. If… Read More

Dominic Cooper

Published: 17 April 2008

Currently starring in the sold-out production of His Dark Materials at the National Olivier, Dominc Cooper is also set to appear in Alan Bennett's forthcoming play The History Boys. Laura… Read More

John Gordon Sinclair

Published: 17 April 2008

Not a description of a sugar junkie’s reaction to a confectionary drought but in fact a play by Stephen Poliakoff, Sweet Panic is currently playing at the Duke Of York’s… Read More

Caesar Twins And Friends

Published: 17 April 2008

The Comedy theatre stage has become a boiler house, bathed in a slightly seedy red glow. A dishevelled, nonchalantly sexy girl sings and a saxophonist plays long slow notes. Two… Read More

Sheila Gish talks about her role as Phaedra at Riverside Studios

Published: 17 April 2008

Studios she tackles one of the pinnacles of classical tragedy, the title role in Jean Racine's 1677 play Phaedra in which overwhelming passion and anguished love lead to her death.… Read More

Alyson Hannigan

Published: 17 April 2008

It’s not very often these days that you find witches in the West End. Occasionally they make an appearance if Macbeth is playing or enjoy a girls' night out in… Read More

Jasper Britton

Published: 17 April 2008

Man wants rich wife, man finds rich wife, man beats rich wife into submission; an age old story which is better known as Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew. Possibly… Read More

Dillie Keane

Published: 17 April 2008

  The Fascinating Aida ladies are much like butterflies. From their relative cocoons of drama schools and the civil service they emerged changed and matured from their beginnings as the… Read More

James Campbell

Published: 17 April 2008

James Campbell is the only stand-up comedian for kids currently touring this or any other circuit. (For all his charm, Roy Chubby Brown rarely performs to primary school audiences). His… Read More

Colin Teevan

Published: 17 April 2008

It's over 24 centuries old and yet it speaks to us about subjects like today's conflict in the Middle East. Sir Peter Hall's new production of Euripides' Bacchai is thrilling… Read More

The Sugar Wife

Published: 17 April 2008

“Tea and sugar – can’t have one without the other.” That is the lesson of history, according to Samuel Tewkley, an affluent Irish tea merchant and Quaker. His elegant but… Read More

Laurence Boswell

Published: 17 April 2008

For some of us, life is hectic. As we are constantly told, everyone is working longer hours, trying to fit too much into their day. The pace of life is… Read More

Chicago star Leigh Zimmerman

Published: 17 April 2008

To play Velma, the nightclub murderess, in Chicago you need to be a great actress, singer and dancer, have plenty of stamina, sex appeal and the longest legs in London.… Read More

David Bradley

Published: 17 April 2008

There are not too many men in the world who can say that at different points in their life they have been both God and Jesus. But, with a list… Read More

Marc Salem

Published: 17 April 2008

Marc Salem calls himself a Mentalist, but he is not dangerous in any way. His world-famous show Mind Games, where he showcases his unique abilities and some truly glorious puns… Read More

Abigail McKern

Published: 17 April 2008

The long-awaited Tennessee Williams classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, which opened recently at the Lyric Theatre and has now extended its run, boasts a hugely talented cast and… Read More

Sejanus: His Fall

Published: 17 April 2008

A man fuelled by ambition and loved by the fickle, fawning masses, works his way to the top of his chosen profession only to have a character flaw exposed and… Read More

Paul Gemignani and Neil Armfield (Sweeney Todd)

Published: 17 April 2008

Anybody with a Gandalfesque beard or rampant tresses is advised to avoid the Royal Opera House in the coming months as Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street will… Read More

Janie Dee

Published: 17 April 2008

Janie Dee leads a busy life. When her six-month run of My One And Only finishes at the Piccadilly on Saturday she will kick off the Divas At The Donmar… Read More

Elizabeth Berrington

Published: 17 April 2008

Resplendent in a parrot green dress with a plunging neckline, Elizabeth Berrington is currently to be found swaggering around the stage of the New Ambassadors as Beverley, the gin-guzzling hostess… Read More

Rachael Stirling

Published: 17 April 2008

October 2002 was an October much like any other; the days got shorter, the nights got colder and the end of the month saw a rise in pumpkin sales and… Read More

Jenny Éclair

Published: 17 April 2008

Jenny Éclair, ground-breaking comedienne, novelist and unlikely chum of Gyles Brandreth (no, really), is currently starring in Mum's The Word at the Albery, which is rather unhelpfully described as "the… Read More

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

Published: 17 April 2008

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Britain's most popular interior decorator, is the high-profile costume designer for this winter's production of Peter Pan at The Royal Festival Hall. The show, which stars Richard Wilson… Read More

Kym Marsh

Published: 17 April 2008

There are many different illnesses in this sickly world of ours, and most of them you wouldn’t want to touch with someone else’s bargepole. Malaria is malicious, flu is no… Read More

Christopher Biggins

Published: 17 April 2008

For children of the 70s and 80s the present cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is full of more blasts from the past than a documentary about the Big Bang.… Read More

The Big Interview: Lisa Dillon

Published: 17 April 2008

Shooting stars, rockets, cheetahs on motorbikes: all move at a particularly alarming rate of knots, but none of them move fast enough to catch the tail of Lisa Dillon’s comet-like… Read More

Lies Have Been Told

Published: 17 April 2008

Lies Have Been Told about Robert Maxwell. He’s not the man we all thought he was and has risen from the dead to set the record straight. In doing so… Read More

Simon Day

Published: 17 April 2008

Trevor Nunn’s production of Cole Porter’s  Anything Goes spent the cold, harsh Winter of 2002 lifting the spirits and warming the hearts of audiences at the Olivier Theatre where it… Read More

Adrian Noble

Published: 17 April 2008

After its successful run at the Swan theatre in Stratford, Adrian Noble’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Brand opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on May 29, with Ralph Fiennes starring… Read More

John Owen-Jones

Published: 17 April 2008

The Phantom Of The Opera is somewhat of a menacing figure. He has single-handedly haunted the Paris Opera House - neatly transported to Her Majesty’s Theatre - for over 17… Read More

Robert Lindsay

Published: 17 April 2008

Robert Lindsay has enjoyed an eclectic career ranging from stage musical to TV drama. Currently, he’s bringing laughter to the nation’s Fridays in hit BBC sitcom My Family. But until… Read More

Stephen Tompkinson

Published: 17 April 2008

Stephen Tompkinson is best known for being a nice man who fell in love with a nice Irish girl and did nice things to nice people in Ireland. He was… Read More

Gyles Brandreth

Published: 17 April 2008

Giles Brandreth, Member Of Parliament, television presenter, jumper-wearer, raconteur, world-record holder, author and actor is best described as a Giles-of-all-trades. Tonight he ticks off another box on his list of… Read More

Ian ‘H’ Watkins

Published: 17 April 2008

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has, over the years, become a veritable breeding ground for performers from the world of pop music aching to break into musical theatre. First… Read More

The Comedy Of Errors

Published: 17 April 2008

Following Twelfth Night, The Comedy Of Errors is the second play in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Comedies season to be presented at the newly refurbished Novello theatre. Shakespeare’s earliest comedy… Read More

Geoffrey Hutchings

Published: 17 April 2008

Oscar Wilde famously said that we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, but he didn’t say anything about what happens when stars… Read More

Charlotte Jones

Published: 17 April 2008

The dark: a scary place to be. What lurks amid the black, inky, lightless shadows? A large hairy earlobe-nibbling monster? A highly trained hobbit assassin waiting for the opportunity to… Read More

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Published: 17 April 2008

This time last year most people would have struggled to point out Kwame Kwei-Armah in a crowd. At best he was the ambulance driver from Casualty. But after shooting to… Read More

Gerald Scarfe

Published: 17 April 2008

Gerald Scarfe is best known as an acerbic political cartoonist with a sharp, often violent style. He might seem, then, an unlikely choice to provide the designs for the English… Read More

Suggs is at Our House tonight

Published: 17 April 2008

Suggs makes his West End debut tonight in Our House at the Cambridge. Members of Madness originally chose not to star in the musical based around their music, leaving the… Read More

Miki Espuma (La Fura Dels Baus)

Published: 17 April 2008

La Fura’s spectacularly explicit homage to the Marquis De Sade has proved to be one of the most controversial pieces of art to be shown in London in recent times.… Read More

Gavin Lee

Published: 17 April 2008

February 20th will see the elite of London Theatre gather at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, for the glittering 2005 Laurence Olivier Awards ceremony. Among the nominees for the first… Read More

Alegría

Published: 17 April 2008

Evolved from a band of street performers in a small town in Quebec, Canada, Cirque Du Soleil began in 1984 and has since gone on to become an international hit,… Read More

The Big Interview: Richard Coyle

Published: 17 April 2008

Very few actors have an unblemished West End CV. Most have at least one cringe-inducing, groan-evoking production that gets swept under the carpet like particularly disturbing dust. Richard Coyle, though,… Read More

Sally Ann Triplett

Published: 17 April 2008

Over the last year or so Sally Ann Triplett has established her self as one of the West End’s leading leading ladies, earning universal acclaim for her rendering of Reno… Read More

Zubin Varla from Midnight’s Children

Published: 17 April 2008

Midnight's Children, the 450 page+ epic novel by Salman Rushdie which won the Booker of Bookers, has resisted several efforts to be staged or screened. Last night, it finally made… Read More

Dave Woods

Published: 17 April 2008

Since the early 1990s, Dave Woods and John Hough (along with the occasional guest star and collaborator) have been touring the world with Ridiculusmus, a theatre company which could be… Read More

Sam West

Published: 17 April 2008

Sam West, who most recently appeared on our TV screens as Anthony Blunt in Cambridge Spies, is currently directing a modern-day version Mozart's classic opera Così Fan Tutte at the… Read More

Roger Allam

Published: 17 April 2008

In a stage career that spans almost 30 years, What The Night Is For at the Comedy is Roger Allam's first two-hander. And who better to share the experience with… Read More

Jack Davenport

Published: 17 April 2008

Jack Davenport, the deep-voiced heart-throb of cult BBC2 series This Life and Coupling, is currently starring in the one man riches to rags tale How To Lose Friends And Alienate… Read More

Patrick O’Kane

Published: 17 April 2008

Patrick O'Kane, starring in Scenes From The Big Picture at the National Cottesloe until June 21, was warned against going into acting. Laura North catches up with him to find… Read More

Toyah Willcox

Published: 17 April 2008

In a year which has seen her shot back into the public awareness courtesy of a stint on reality TV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Toyah… Read More

The Nutcracker (English National Ballet)

Published: 17 April 2008

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without The Nutcracker. This ballet is as synonymous with the festive season as turkey and tinsel, and, just as you dust off your Christmas decorations every… Read More

Gary Waldhorn

Published: 17 April 2008

Of late, Shaftesbury Avenue has been a hive of success for the resurgent RSC. Until recently the double bill of The Taming Of The Shrew and The Tamer Tamed had… Read More

Lee Latchford Evans

Published: 17 April 2008

Dance craze inducing pop band Steps was one of the biggest pop phenomenons since Elvis went to the big cheeseburger factory in the sky. When the group split last year… Read More

John Barrowman

Published: 17 April 2008

John Barrowman has come a long way since presenting Saturday kids show Live and Kicking back in the 90s, working alongside TV great Andi Peters. These days he is one… Read More

Jon Lee

Published: 17 April 2008

At the tender age of 21 Jon Lee has led a life most could only dream of. In his short time in the sun he has starred in a number… Read More

Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas

Published: 17 April 2008

"I Married A Horse", "Sex With My Sister", "Honey, I'm A Call Girl", "Surprise! I Have A Bisexual Lover"... When composer/lyricist Richard Thomas and lyricist/director Stewart Lee told Richard Embray… Read More

Anthony Michaels-Moore from Falstaff

Published: 17 April 2008

Falstaff, currently at the Royal Opera House, is Verdi's last opera and also his most comic. The genial and weighty Falstaff thinks he's a ladies man and sets about to… Read More

Lucy Porter and Phil Nichol

Published: 17 April 2008

Lucy Porter and Phil Nichol are currently starring in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Gielgud alongside Christian Slater, Mackenzie Crook and Frances Barber. Laura North catches up… Read More

Sian Thomas

Published: 17 April 2008

“To be or not to be, that is the question”… for some people at least. Others might ask “what shall we go and see in the West End tonight?” If… Read More

Robert Bathurst

Published: 17 April 2008

Best known for the morally vacillating character David in ITV comedy-drama Cold Feet, Robert Bathurst is currently appearing in a very different sort of drama, Chekhov's Three Sisters , at… Read More

Tim Carroll

Published: 17 April 2008

Mornings and evenings are getting brighter and the rain is continuing, sure signs that it must be the start of the great British summer. In the world of seasonal London… Read More

Will Adamsdale

Published: 17 April 2008

Will Adamsdale is a 31-year old actor and performer who found fame in 2004 when he was the shock winner of the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival with… Read More

Peter Quilter

Published: 17 April 2008

Late in life, and late in her career, Florence Foster Jenkins sold out America’s premier concert venue, Carnegie Hall. Many prospective audience members were turned away as there was no… Read More

Dominic Dromgoole

Published: 17 April 2008

Over the last seven years, Dominic Dromgoole’s name has become synonymous with the innovative and classy work of the Oxford Stage Company; one of the UK’s most respected touring companies.… Read More

Diana Quick

Published: 17 April 2008

There aren’t many actors around these days who can boast a talent so versatile that they can be playing Shakespeare in one breath and the ultimate evil in the universe… Read More

Steven Pimlott

Published: 17 April 2008

A large house stands alone on an island. Ten guests have been invited for the weekend. Separated from the mainland by the freezing sea, they are entirely alone. One of… Read More

William Houston

Published: 17 April 2008

Manipulation, execution, murder, poisoning; it’s all been part of an average day’s work for William Houston over the past year. As part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Gunpowder season, now… Read More

The League Of Gentlemen

Published: 17 April 2008

The multi award-winning team have left their own brand of extremely dark comedy behind to make their West End acting debut in Yasmina Reza's Art at theWhitehall. Mark Gatiss and… Read More
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