A young cigarette vendor has set himself on fire in Tunis, reviving memories of similar events two years ago that sparked an uprising which spread across the Arab world.

Alice Jones has been put on the spot by actors time and again – and she's sick of it

Social mobility gets top billing in a pair of revivals packed with period detail

Film director Joe Wright (of Atonement and Pride and Prejudice fame) has theatre in his blood (his parents ran the beautiful Little Angel Puppet Theatre in Islington), but this is his first venture for the stage. 

Shakespeare's Globe shook off the gloomy predictions around the Olympics to post a “phenomenal” year in 2012, with the most numbers attending one season since it opened in 1997.

It was not easy being a man in the rapidly de-industrialising Britain of the 1980s. Gone was the job for life at the local pit/foundry/ship works where your father had toiled and possibly his father too. The loss of chief breadwinner status sparked a masculinity crisis stripping a generation of their self-esteem as they squared up to a future stacking shelves at Morrison’s.

Just two weeks after the actor Richard Briers told press he was struggling with lung disease his death has been confirmed by his agent.

Royal Court on the money as Cooke goes out on a high

Touring productions of parts 1, 2 and 3 will be performed on the sites of landmark battles

There have many screen and television adaptations of Dickens's great novel, the latest opening just a couple of months ago.

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the premiere at the Royal Court of Our Country's Good, the contemporary classic by Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Seat Plan by a 6ft 7in theatre fanatic has already attracted over 1,000 reviews

London’s theatres are set for a decade of growth following record advanced sales for 2013. This comes after they “cleared the hurdle” of the Olympics, and Boris’ voice on the tube, to post a surprise boost in audiences and returns last year.

Plans for military rehab centre closes theatre to amateur players