Eighty-nine years young, the original caped crusader will be reborn once more in the West End from today, as a singing, dancing, romancing, leaping, fencing, avenging, inexhaustible Zorro takes to the boards. With book and lyrics by Stephen Clark and music by the Gipsy Kings, Zorro!, starring Matthew Rawle, is the latest in a long line of moral masked men whose image has lately been retuned for the times.

Books

Books

The devised show Mile End is based on the true story of the commuter
Christophe Duclos, who was pushed in front of a train at Mile End station in
2002 by Stephen Soans-Wade, a man with a history of mental illness.

David Mamet, whose 1988 Hollywood huckster play Speed-the-Plow has opened at
the Old Vic in a revival starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, has just had
a bruising run-in with the New York reviewers. Arguably the greatest and most
influential of living American dramatists, he has been confronted with the fact
that his latest theatrical venture, November - in which Nathan Lane (of The
Producers fame) plays an unpopular President seeking re-election - has, with a
few murmurs of mitigation