Hampstead theatre, LondonA bickering trio of trapped survivors who have lost their comrades are kept in an ominous stasis in Daisy Bell’s playThe setup is strong in Daisy Hall’s follow-u…
Rupert Goold begins his tenure as artistic director with a ‘provocative’ version of Shakespeare’s history play, followed by shows starring Milly Alcock and Arinzé KeneDamian Lewis is …
Palace theatre, LondonFive hours have been trimmed to three for this new version but it is packed with magic moments and superb performancesTen years on from its premiere, Harry Potter and t…
The writer and podcaster on why politics is made to seem more complicated than it is and his mission to unpack world events for everyoneWhy did you get into comedy? My mum was a profession…
James Earl Jones theatre, New York CityA ‘mostly true’ tale of 19th-century sisters running from the law is underserved in a production stuffed with superfluous showboatingThe new retool…
Marylebone theatre, London Trevor Nunn directs Torben Betts’s intriguing but flawed play following US journalist Dorothy Kilgallen’s theories about the KennedysA smartly dressed woman ha…
Todrick Hall’s off-Broadway show is about a doomed interracial love affair during US slavery in the 1860sDuring the intermission of Midnight, an off-Broadway musical about a doomed interra…
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonBen Duke’s clever, witty and wholly unpredictable new show, The Last Hamlet, takes big liberties with the story that pay offHamlet is trying to get a hire car.…
Former comedian long traded on his extreme persona, yet many will wonder how he was allowed to act in plain sight for so longIn the early 1990s, when he was a student at the Italia Conti the…
In off-Broadway show Ms Blakk for President, Oscar-winning Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney explores a slice of under-appreciated queer historyAt the height of the Aids crisis, Chicago…
Amid galloping global crises, the Greek choreographer has returned to his revolutionary ideals. He explains how asking the near-impossible of dancers brings a shared joyChristos Papadopoulos…
From coaching youth community theatre to supporting Huddersfield football club and delighting sci-fi fans at graduation ceremonies, the actor is fondly rememberedPatrick Stewart – a life i…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge joins stars signing up to scheme aimed at tackling class barriers in theatrePhoebe Waller-Bridge has donated a London flat so that early-career writers can afford to liv…
It took the Tony winner 20 years to bring his ‘showman’ tyrant to London. He reflects on its Trumpian parallels, the death of Spring Awakening’s Duncan Sheik and the horrific accident …
She has played King Lear, all three witches in Macbeth and an ape turned variety performer in Kafka’s Monkey. As she prepares for a new show, she discusses the soaring highs and deep lows …
To be with the woman he loved, Max Olesker had to convert to Orthodox Judaism – which required an unwelcome operation. He relives a painful and sometimes infuriating journeyWhen Max met El…
Playwright Richard Nelson’s acclaimed Rhinebeck Panorama series returns for another timely look at the fictional Apple family living in a divided AmericaRichard Nelson learned a great less…
Adelphi theatre, LondonTheatre wunderkind’s adaptation of the Oscar-winning film has plenty of suspenseful stagecraft but struggles to match its subtletyAnother new show, another old story…
The late actor’s co-stars in Logan and Anthony and Cleopatra remember dog impressions, marching band-conducting and a fervent belief in funI had the unbelievable privilege of working with …
An unmissable documentary play, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia with luminous Isis Hainsworth and ecstatic dance in a Norwegian museum are among November’s highlightsSwiss director Milo Rau’s r…
Whether it’s immersive chiller Blackout or the campily scary 2:22: A Ghost Story, ‘tis the season to be scared witless at the theatre. But what’s the secret to making an audience gasp …
Shoreditch town hall, LondonScott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie’s audience participation musical gets toes tapping and bodies spinning – even if its story lacks a little depthThere’s onl…
With his striking voice, so rich and resonant, the actor blazed through the RSC – and his time in Hollywood only enriched him. Yet he was a great team player, capable of anything, as his d…
Vivian Beaumont theater, New York CityUnconvincing performances and an ill-fitting big stage make a retooled version of the classic courtroom drama feel like a missed opportunityGiven the cu…
Swan theatre, Stratford-Upon-AvonThis RSC staging of the sprawling middle England masterpiece has humour, compassion – and even George Eliot herself as a characterIs there a literary achie…