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Duke Bluebeard's Castle is plain sinister

09.11.09
ENO’s coupling of Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is unconventional but inspired.... more

Triumph as O'Neill joins Prick Up Your Ears

02.11.09
Matt Lucas having left the show Con O’Neill has taken over the role of Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears.... more

Yeah but no, for Prick Up Your Ears

01.10.09
Matt Lucas delivers a performance that is complex and precisely gauged, albeit hyperbolic, in Prick Up Your Ears.... more

Matt Lucas' gay divorce

11.09.09
Matt Lucas may have slimmed down since separating from his husband, but his career’s ballooning, he tells Marianne Macdonald... more

Pictures From An Exhibition is not very Modest

14.05.09
Being Modest Mussorgsky doesn't look like fun, at least not as he's portrayed in Daniel Kramer's dramatisation of his short and troubled life in Pictures From An Exhibition.... more

A young person's guide to the opera

13.05.09
Not only has Edward Gardner, ENO's 34-year-old music director, scored another hit with Peter Grimes this week - he's leading a cultural revolution... more

Making a song and dance of Mussorgsky

29.04.09
A gaunt young actor is staggering about the chalked-up floor of a rehearsal room, a vodka bottle to his lips... more

The knockout Punch

21.04.08
With an impeccable cast and bold staging, Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy has been restored with pugnacious vitality at the Young Vic.... more

It's an opera mash-up

12.03.08
English National Opera is joining forces with the Young Vic to create a new kind of opera out of a film by David Lynch. Something as bold as this could work only in London, says its director Diane Paulus.... more

Fall of the angels

27.06.07
The new production of seven-hour epic Angels in America forced Nicholas de Jongh to eat his words of praise from 15 years ago... more

On the side of angels

26.06.07
Theatre director Daniel Kramer speaks to Claire Allfree about Reaganism, Aids and his latest production of Angels In America... more

Bent casts new light on man's savagery

06.10.06
Nicholas de Jongh finds the revival of Bent as horrific as its 1979 premiere. And the tale of gay persecution in Nazi death camps remains relevant, he says.... more

I grew up with oppression

04.10.06
Surviving a violent childhood and living as a bisexual in Bush's America, Alan Cumming is, he says, well prepared for his latest stage role.... more

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