According to Bradley Whitford, A Few Good Men is even more relevant to modern-day audiences than when it was on Broadway in 1989.
Their shows caused mayhem. Now Tamm Reynolds " AKA Midgitte Bardot " is really going for the jugular, hitting back at prejudice with a wild new act Most performers want attention when the…
Having rocked queer clubs to their foundations, Wet Mess is now electrifying Edinburgh with a show about testosterone and a stunning new take on drag There are drag queens, drag kings " and …
At 35, Martin O'Brien has already outlived his life expectancy. And in performances in which he attaches pegs to his testicles or smears himself with mucus, he brutally confronts his mortali…
The Pulitzer prize-winning musical shows the world what it's like 'to travel in a fat, Black queer body'. Writer Michael R Jackson, a former Lion King usher who based it on his life, relives…
One million copies sold, sobbing superfans on TikTok and a new stage adaptation starring James Norton " yet Hanya Yanagihara's 2015 book continues to divides readers On the cover of the Amer…
In our final set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England's new funding round, we speak to Ballet Black, Disability Arts Online and Camden Art Centre Thrilled, relieved, …
From spanking to swordfighting, why does the Dane have to keep stripping off? As he appears alongside Christopher Walken in Outlaws, the actor talks about dodgy directors, the joy of physica…
With a Virgin Mary strip show, lessons in how to sit on Santa's lap and a carol about drugs, this festive extravaganza is about as alternative as Christmas can get. Is Britain ready for the …
Keep track of the shows at the sprawling arts extravaganza beneath Waterloo Station in London. This page will be updated throughout the festival Until 1 FebruarySimon David's autobiographica…
Susanne Oberbeck sings sexually charged songs in a German accent while standing topless and sporting a moustache " and at last she's found an audience that understands her In 2003, Susanne O…
Shunned by hipsters, adored by local Scots, they're the fringe's biggest show. How did this retro cocktail of cheesy euphoria become such a phenomenon? Friday night in Edinburgh and a troupe…
Plan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
A show about entertainment industry sexism and the dynamics of double acts is making Edinburgh audiences laugh and sob. Its writer and stars tell allFor many, this year's Edinburgh fringe ha…
The immersive theatre company's new show Kabeiroi has just 864 tickets (for £110 a pair) and is closed to critics, while its corporate gigs are on the rise. Have the showstoppers sold out…
Set to headline Melbourne festival, the performer's epic 24-hour show presents an alternative history that celebrates the outsidersYou know you're witnessing something special when it's 7am …
He was one of the first openly gay men in metal. Now, after losing everything in a house fire, Faith No More's Roddy Bottum is bankrolling an opera featuring crystal-meth arias and interspec…
Twitter feed of Royal's youngest ever principal, who was compared to Nureyev and Baryshnikov, had suggested dissatisfactionWhen Sergei Polunin, 21, walked out of rehearsals with the Royal Ba…
In my humble, non-reviewer opinion, no single actor dominates this radical yet perfectly balanced production at the GlobeThanks to the World Shakespeare festival, one of the Cultural Olympia…
Lasting an entire day and night with no breaks, Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music contains multitudes, a 'radical faery realness ritual' which reimagines an America created by …
From Sheldon Harnick accepting his lifetime achievement award to James Corden's dad's advice to his son, here are the best lines from this year's Tonys"Think of tonight as the Oscars, but wi…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's blockbuster musical dominates the Broadway ceremony, while attendees pay tribute to those murdered in Orlando shootingHaving won the Pulitzer prize and a Grammy award, a…
Deaf West's innovative new version of the controversial musical is performed by a cast including many deaf actors using ASL " but does it work for deaf people?It's one of the most buzzed-abo…
The 70th annual Tony awards begins at 8pm ET live from the Beacon Theater in New York City. This year's show will be dedicated to the victims of Orlando shooting 12.35am BST Need a quick re…
Even after The Graduate made him a superstar, he always saw himself as a 'funny looking semitic guy' on the fringes of fame. Five decades on he talks about racism and the movies, how Tootsie…
We've got chills, and they're multiplyin' ... probably because the TV musical Grease: Live is on and we're live-blogging it. Please join us on the couch for some hand-jiving, bomber jackets …
Deaf West's innovative new version of the controversial musical is performed by a cast including many deaf actors using ASL " but does it work for deaf people?It's one of the most buzzed-abo…
New York City CenterThe 1982 musical about a man-eating plant rides again in an uproarious concert performance " and to the audience, Gyllenhaal isn't even the biggest star onstagePart of th…
From TV-loving agoraphobes to those looking for brazen shirtless male strippers, this holiday weekend offers plenty for the culturally curious to exploreYoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960"1971 C…
Miami Grand TheatreThis award-winning work attempted to convey the experience of the internet through performance artHow to make a ballet out of the web: with pop, spandex and wheelchairs Co…
Join us as we watch the inflatable-heavy procession through New York, which this year threatens to be disrupted by Ferguson protestorsThe Macy's Thanksgiving Parade: in pictures Continue rea…
Studio 54, New YorkWhile occasionally tentative, in her Broadway debut Stone delivers where it counts in a classic production of the Weimar-era musical Continue reading...
Writing a monologue about bestiality is certainly arresting, but does it deliver more than shock value? Yes, says playwright Rob Hayes its the closest thing to a love story hell ever write …
If you want to see Breaking Bad, Star Wars, Fawlty Towers, Doctor Who and Downton Abbey at Edinburgh you can, thanks to condensed parodies. Are they satisfying to perform and do the perform…
The Edinburgh festival show applies the techniques of immersive theatre to an indie gig, resulting in something genuinely groundbreaking Continue reading...
The comic on making gags about your partner, artistic paranoia and whether comedy can ever be an agent of social changeReview: Sara Pascoe takes lively tour of her magpie mind10 questions fo…
Paxo combines clips, opinions, anecdotes and audience Q&A to make one of Edinburgh's most sought-after tickets Continue reading...
Though its an unflattering portrait of the pop-culture columnist, Tim Fountains sequel to his Burchill play reminds you of her rhetorical force Continue reading...
Musician Michael Burdett describes how he travelled the UK inviting strangers to listen to an unreleased recording by the cult British folk singerListen to Nick Drakes Cello Song from a John…
Underbelly, EdinburghCarefully concealing his masterful control of the show, the former Perrier winner explores the interzone between comedy, theatre and spoken word Continue reading...
Both seasoned and new performers at the Edinburgh festival acknowledge the influence America's master of crazy comedy had on their lives and their acts Continue reading...
The new staging of Baz Luhrmann's film ladles on the glitz, but drowns out the simple human core that made the movie so well-lovedWith its motto "to live with fear is a life half lived&…
In this spoken-word show, the Pope of Trash signals his intentions to remain subversive into old age " and beyond, says Alex NeedhamAlex Needham
David Sefton, the director of the South Australian arts festival, gives us his picks, from six-hour interactive Shakespeare to a career retrospective of avant garde legend John ZornAlex Need…
Dunstan theatre, AdelaideHaving played recently in London, where it got the garlic and crucifix treatment by the critics, Nosferatu has chased the sun to the Adelaide festival. This version,…
The German Club, AdelaideA couple of days after The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart exits the Adelaide festival, another poetic adaption roosts amongst the tables, chairs and steins of Wei…
David Eldridge's resonant and richly populated play put England's postwar paradoxes on stage " and it was funny, tooDavid Eldridge's In Basildon did many things. It proved that it was possib…
In the second of a series of interviews with the newsmakers of 2012, Alex Needham speaks to the star who shocked the ballet world in January Continue reading...
'Charmless, messy, lacklustre,' 'scrappy, lazy, inconclusive,' 'I wanted it to stop' ... The reviews are in for Jennifer Saunders' Spice Girls musical, and they don't make pretty readingOn T…
It was a Scarborough theatre's budget Christmas show. Twenty five years on, The Woman in Black remains one of British theatre's biggest " and scariest " hits. Yikes, says Alex NeedhamRobin H…
In my humble, non-reviewer opinion, no single actor dominates this radical yet perfectly balanced production at the GlobeThanks to the World Shakespeare festival, one of the Cultural Olympia…
