Fringe veteran calls for squabbles to end as playwright is criticised over opening speech

Nick Clark meets a performer who wants to tell a different Arab story

Sherlock Holmes would have unravelled the case in a heartbeat. Yet so far there is no explanation as to why the estate of the fictional detective’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has failed to fight a lawsuit in the US that could leave it out of pocket.

Filming of Tusk is intended to start in Los Angeles in September

The author said he was considering audiobook-only work in the future

The actor Simon Callow has promised to take audiences to a “dark, murky, unsettling place”, with a new one-man stage show that explores the composer Richard Wagner’s “toxic” and “disgusting” anti-Semitism.

Boris Johnson hailed the new sculpture to adorn the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square as a monument to British dominance in the Tour de France but warned art lovers may not be able to Google the work under new proposals from the Prime Minister.

While West End theatres reported another record year in 2012, new figures reveal that beyond the bright lights of Theatreland half the capital’s small venues fear financial pressures could force them out of business.

The National Galleries of Scotland is set to stage the country’s first major exhibition of acclaimed American artist Louise Bourgeois, known for her huge bronze sculptures of spiders, later this year.

New report paints a depressing picture  for the smaller venues  throughout the capital