A production of Shakespeare's Richard III is to send fake blood into the audience. Its director Jamie Lloyd and critic David Lister discuss.

Van Gogh's Houses at Auvers II, from a 200-strong private collection of priceless artworks, goes on display in a Reading cafe.

Richard Bean's new play about phonehacking is satire at its best, says Sarah Crompton

Novelist Kathy Lette to satirise the Justice Secretary for banning books being sent into prisons

Watch: Andre Benjamin stars as the guitarist in Jimi: All is by my side

100 fans in blue medical gowns watch White being stretchered off for 'further testing'

The director of a biopic about singer Gregg Allman, and two of the film's producers, are facing involuntary manslaughter charges, following the death of a camera assistant on set.

Artist Tracey Emin, historian David Starkey, designer Margaret Howell and others champion their favourite exhibition space

A lot of people think that just because the Hayward has brutalist architecture it is tough, even macho. I used to live in Waterloo and visited it often, and I always knew that it wasn't macho. In fact it has very graceful spaces inside and, unusually for a museum, essentially square rooms with very high ceilings, which are among my favourite spaces in which to see and to show art.

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A sculptor uses hurley sticks to create a royal seat modelled on the famous iron throne from the HBO TV hit series, Game of Thrones.