Theatre

Time Out meets the people who are good at turning hobbies into jobs and junk into music

Time Out's theatre critics look back at a cracking year on the London stage, and share their tips on who to watch in 2009

Your Bard: as David Tennant stars as Hamlet, fears that Shakespeare might become the preserve of an educationally privileged few are unfounded, argues Jane Edwardes

It's the time where the good, the bad, and the almost famous don nylons for your seasonal pleasure. Plays, pantos, classics: here's the best and the worst of Christmas shows as we review them

Time Out's critics pick the best books to be giving as Christmas presents: art books, film books, classical music books and top reads in comedy, dance, music and theatre

There's a subculture among American drag queens that takes part in extravagant catwalk-based competitions and flamboyant costumes. Time Out visits the London theatre staging a play documenting the intriguing world of 'ballroom'

Theatre has a long, strong tradition of confronting society's racial antagonisms. So why do white theatre critics, Time Out's Caroline McGinn among them, still find it hard to write the word 'nigger'?

RSC wunderkind Mariah Gale talks to Time Out about improv, incest and what it's like playing David Tennant's lover in 'Hamlet'