Stellar line-up of writers from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka via Stewart Lee, Billy Bragg and Carol Ann Duffy, create epic launch for the new Bush Theatre... more
Before War Horse opened on Broadway, the artistic director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, said he could not be sure the Americans would embrace a puppet show about First World War horses... more
The four short plays at Southwark Playhouse about 'death and resurrection' plus a deeply peculiar interlude of zombie belly dancing are disappointing verging on desperate... more
This is a virtually all-black remake of the 2007 film directed by Frank Oz about a funeral in the English countryside that goes disastrously wrong... more
The emotionally complex Heavy Rain, out on Friday, is a new kind of computer game. Does that explain how writer/director Neil LaBute came to be involved with its launch, asks Nick Curtis.... more
Zoe Saldana's tough New York upbringing more than prepared her for the rigours of working with James Cameron on his $500 million intergalactic epic, Avatar. Hermione Eyre talks life, death and the universe with Hollywood's favourite space cadet... more
At last Samuel L Jackson has chosen a decent role, as a bigoted Los Angeles cop who takes his grudge out on the couple next door in Lakeview Terrace.... more
Neil LaBute, who offers audiences a feel-bad after-glow to take home with them, issues another cautionary warning about family life in In A Dark, Dark House.... more
She will play the part of Jeannie, whose on-off relationship with a colleague disintegrates when he falls in love with a funny, sexy rival who happens to be plus-sized.... more
A frightening double-bill by American playwright Neil LaBute is further evidence of why the Arts Council's plan to cut the Bush Theatre's funding defies sense and outrages sensibility.... more
Neil LaBute's Bash - a three-part meditation on child murder in contemporary America - is histrionic, but still chilling, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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