Charing Cross theatre, LondonBüchner’s jagged masterpiece about a soldier’s descent is told with enchanting and stirring songs that occasionally defuse its stark terrorWhen Georg Büchn…
A musical about a drama group’s pilgrimage and reflections on activist art join an intriguing show about lost languagesIn a Dublin theatre festival programme tackling heavy themes of racis…
Peeing in the sink he shared with Derek Jacobi, making a badger video with Brian May, climbing Everest with Alan Hinkes … as the great actor blasts into his 90s, stars celebrate his ‘lo…
Òran Mór, GlasgowBlythe Duff and Mark Barrett are excellent as two people helplessly bound to each other in this bitter two-handerThe arrival of a first baby changes everything. It is not …
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonWith a WWE-style wrestling match, playful eroticism and a fine cast including Hamilton’s Jonathan Groff, this is an exquisite production‘To …
Bush theatre, LondonMei Leng Yew’s play veers between humour and horror as a young woman ignores her mum’s warning about big life changes during a ghost festivalWith shapeshifting perfor…
After a phenomenal decade-long run, the Cursed Child two-parter is being pruned. Will it still work? Our writer swishes her cloak, levitates her luggage – and hops aboard the streamlined H…
Riverside Studios, LondonAndy Sandberg’s play gets off to an intriguing start before coming off the rails in spectacular, almost fascinating style. For all the wrong reasons, it’s hard t…
Curve theatre, LeicesterDirector Cara Nolan keeps the play’s original 1980s setting but its message about how expectations are dictated by class and gender is anything but datedSo much of …
When Barbara Scully tried to get a job after years as a stay-at-home mum, no one would hire her. So she made her own work as a writer and broadcaster – and soon found herself on TV and sta…
Coronet theatre, LondonAnguished monologue based on letter to jailed playwright’s ex-lover is gripping in its illumination of a tortured artistOscar Wilde’s De Profundis really does belo…
The actor, who is performing on the West End, was filmed telling theatre fans ‘you can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row, it’ll drive me mad’Gillian Anderson has come under fi…
As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s enduring gothic melodrama celebrates its 40th birthday, producer Cameron Mackintosh and cast members from down the years recall what makes it so specialThere is so…
The actor will perform famous TV sketches – as well as new material created with Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Howard Goodall – in Rowan Live, which opens in FebruaryRowan Atkinson will …
Photographer Gavin John’s new book, Australian Theatres & Cinemas, documents the country’s finest stage performance and picture palaces – from massive Italian Renaissance-inspired …
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonInua Ellams displays a Stoppardian or Fraynian relish in turning complex topics into enjoyable theatre in his latest playOver the last decade, Inua Ellams has …
Minerva theatre, ChichesterNina Segal’s revisiting of the Sophoclean story is pleasingly experimental – but not all the ideas work in Jeff James’s fourth-wall breaking productionLibati…
Sylvia: A Musical Revolution, the hit show about the Pankhursts and the suffrage movement, is going on a tour of England and Scotland. We took a first look at Leicester’s Curve theatre Con…
A New York production brings Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci’s 1993 debate to life in a masterclass of controlled furyOn 30 November 1993, the Aids activist Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci, …
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonAn interrogater tries to get to the bottom of a surreal scandal while green screen actors meddle with the story in Jess and Morgs’ inventive productionWhat aud…
Barbican, London Spinning off from the classic symphony with composer Caroline Shaw and artist Sarah Crowner, Tanowitz’s dancers find fresh thinking spacePam Tanowitz’s work is the antid…
Watermill theatre, NewburyIan Hallard impresses as the detecting rector in a thoughtful adaptation that sometimes strains under a villageful of suspects, victims and doubling actorsPoirot, M…
Jonathan Larson’s much-loved show about New York artists has been revived for its 30th anniversary with a cast including the Stranger Things star Continue reading...
Wyndham’s theatre, London Grant brings shock-haired vigour as a vain novelist forced to welcome his boho children’s surprise guests in comedy of clipped social e…
The US performance-maker’s Weathering, which evokes people clinging to a life raft, has left a trail of overwhelmed audiences. As it arrives in the UK, she reflects on creating a sensory e…