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Barbican festival moves east

11.03.09
The Barbican is moving into the East End with a festival of live music at venues it has never before visited, it was announced... more

Peter Brook to bow out of Paris theatre after 30 years

18.12.08
Acclaimed theatre director Peter Brook has signalled his intention to start handing over the reins at the Paris theatre he has led for more than 30 years... more

The sexiest writer in town

24.11.08
Tarell Alvin McCraney has been voted Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Here the young American reveals how a childhood of violence and abuse shapes his plays... more

Sweeney produces London’s finest pie

20.11.08
Director Sasha Regan fills the tiny playing area for Sweeney Todd so cleverly that all of grey, sinister, stinking London is suggested. ... more

Magical emotions in Rusalka

14.10.08
Dvorak's touching opera concerns a water nymph, Rusalka, who longs to feel human emotions. She quickly learns how love can be followed by betrayal.... more

Southern poetry floods In the Red and Brown Water

06.10.08
In the Red and Brown Water indicates Tarell Alvin McCraney’s willingness to toy with the conventions of stagecraft. ... more

Beckett short-changed

29.08.08
Beckett's uncompromising stage poetry is almost entirely wasted, replaced instead by a lot of offputtingly mannered acting in Fragments.... more

Scoop up the free theatre

31.07.08
You get a spectacular historial riverside setting at The Scoop. The actors perform whatever the weather. And it's free.... more

Best little theatre in London

29.04.08
Mehmet Ergen has built Dalston's Arcola into a buzzing fringe venue that attracts big names. Now, he says, it's time to expand.... more

Drawing folk in

11.04.08
Molora examines a country that needs everyone to look within in order to heal. This is folk theatre at its most raw, says Claire Allfree.... more

Confronting a genocide

23.10.07
Author and director Dorcy Rugamba tells Claire Allfree how he has used testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials to help a shattered Rwandan people make sense of their own genocide.... more

The man who made us love Macbeth

28.09.07
London's most promising theatre director, Rupert Goold, takes a moment to talk about his latest show and future plans.... more

Beckett's morsels of misery

21.09.07
A quintet of short works from Samuel Beckett, Fragments is black and bleak - probably one for the melancholics to avoid.... more

Brook heads Young Vic line-up

23.05.07
Five Beckett plays by veteran director Peter Brook and a Rwandan take on the Holocaust are two of the highlights in the Young Vic's new season.... more

Oppressors that steal a man's identity

10.05.07
Gently paced yet sharply felt, Athol Fugard's Sizwe Banzi is Dead, a quietly spoken indictment of the apartheid regime, reaches the parts most political protests don't reach.... more

Emotional pantomime

26.04.07
Compared to Peter Brook's nine-hour production of Mahabharata for the 1985 Avignon Festival, Stuart Wood's three-hour version is a snip of a show. But, golly, how it sags, says Sarah Frater.... more

Tears sharpened by mirth

23.02.07
Last week's death of Steven Pimlott, one of Britain's most versatile directors, tinged ENO's revival of his staging of La Boheme with a mood of elegy.... more

Battle of the Dames

24.01.07
Two of Britain's best-loved actresses are leading our charge for Oscar success. But which one of these queens of stage will get the golden statue? Nick Curtis assesses the form.... more

Young Vic set for bold new drama

03.10.06
The Young Vic reopens next week, its Waterloo base transformed by a striking renovation that plays to the building's strengths.... more

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