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A very English playwright: The return of Alan Bennett
Friday, 6 November 2009
Alan Bennett stages his first play for years this month, at the National Theatre. Paul Taylor, who has met him many times, looks at how the butcher's son from Leeds became Britain's best loved playwright, and tries to unravel his complex personality
Akram Khan: 'You have to become a warrior'
Friday, 6 November 2009
He's the darling of the dance world, and beyond, with artists such as Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley lining up to work with him
The ten biggest Broadway turkeys
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Following the shock closure of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and the cancellation of its companion piece Broadway Bound, we look at ten of the biggest flops to grace Broadway.
Life in the fast lane: Steven McRae
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Steven McRae grew up in the world of motor racing but now he is one of the Royal Ballet's brightest stars
Observations: Barbican's vampire show is theatre to get your teeth into
Friday, 30 October 2009
If imitation is a form of flattery, Twilight star Robert Pattinson ought to be pleased by the posters for new teen vampire flick, Cirque du Freak, whose young lead is a dead (or should that be undead?) ringer. The continuing mania surrounding Twilight on the big screen and the HBO series True Blood on the small meant it was only a matter of time before vampires invaded other cultural spheres.
The Diary: Chrissie Hynde; London International Mime Festival; Marian Keyes; VOBO awards; National Portrait Gallery
Friday, 30 October 2009
Clare Higgins: 'I was a bit of an odd child'
Friday, 30 October 2009
An epiphany at the Royal Shakespeare Company led the award-winning actress first to misbehaviour, and then stardom
Lucy Kirkwood: Britain's brightest young stage writer
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Her explicit play about sex trafficking has stunned the critics, but Lucy Kirkwood is more worried about what her parents will think. She talks to Alice Jones
Download "Turing's Test": an exclusive new radio play
Saturday, 24 October 2009
This weekend, The Independent premieres a fictionalised account of the final moments in the life of Alan Turing, in the first collaboration of its kind between a national newspaper and an independent production company.
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FIVE BEST PLAYS
Pains of Youth (NT: Cottesloe, London)
Katie Mitchell helms a rare revival of Ferdinand Bruckner’s brilliantly odd 1923 play about six bored, sexually entangled medical students in 1920s Vienna.
(020-7452 3000) to 21 Jan
Bedroom Farce (Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames)
Nicholas Le Prevost and Jane Asher star in Peter Hall’s staging of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy, which is paired in the theatre’s Behind Closed Doors season with Stephen Unwin’s production of August Strindberg's 1888 tragedy, 'Miss Julie'. (0871 230 1552) to 28 Nov
Spring Storm
(Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton)
Laurie Sansom’s sensitive production of Tennessee Williams’ 1937 drama features actors for whom the parts seem to have been written.
(01604 624 811) to 14 Nov
Seize the Day
(Tricycle Theatre, London)
This entertaining new play by Kwame Kwei-Armah explores the real possibility of a new black mayor for London with a sharp-edged clarity in both argument and stage design.
(020-7328 1000) to 17 Dec
War Horse
(New London Theatre, London)
The National Theatre’s moving adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, adapted by Nick Stafford, about a horse sold to the cavalry and pitched into the First World War.
(0844 412 4654) to 12 Feb