The 84-year-old actor has spent decades bringing Samuel Beckett’s plays to life. Does his recent diagnosis give him new insights into playing ‘sad clown’ Krapp in a drama about age and…
The Teesside town struggles with drugs and social discord, but inspired by its magical light and mercurial artistic spirit, some say it has the best cultural scene in the UKAt a gig in a Mid…
The Traitors-winning standup talks about quitting palliative care work for the stage and the dangers of mistaking a cockatoo for a cocktailHow did you go from a career in palliative care to …
Is it an alien? A dinosaur? Is it going to kill us all? Our writer hits Ashdown Forest for the Big One Hundred celebrations – and finds its magic enchanting new generationsThe rolling idyl…
Underbelly Boulevard, LondonAudience members become unsuspecting mind-readers, and numbers disappear from their memory, in this hugely entertaining showAn audience member is on stage, their …
In the late 1960s, the actor David Burke was a member of the company at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, under the formidable creative team of Richard Eyre and Clive Perry.There, he benefited fr…
It took a long time for the actor to find her groove – then the smash TV spy thriller changed everything. She talks about getting advice from A-listers, speaking her mind, and why she’s …
The Windrush Prize will award £10,000 to the writer of the winning play, which will receive a run at the Arcola theatre next yearThe first prize dedicated to discovering and developing Brit…
Soho theatre, LondonTold through two overlapping monologues, Brianna and Armani prepare for a night that could change the course of their livesAll the nerves, hope and anticipation of gettin…
Globe theatre, LondonWith its gorgeous music, dance and costumes, this production is a sure summer blockbuster that avoids the problematic elements of Shakespeare’s playThis elegant, effer…
Pitlochry Festival theatreWriter Douglas Maxwell’s playful conceit sparks a funny and superbly acted exploration of messy relationships There is a clever conceit underlying Douglas Maxwell…
Riverside Studios, LondonTed Walliker’s one-man play about a night gone spectacularly wrong is boldly ambitious but we need to know more about the man at the micWatching a comedian crumble…
Camden People’s theatre, London Jonny Khan’s debut play, about an uncle and niece manning phones at a rescue service during racist attacks, is well acted yet lacks tensionThis theatre’…
Minerva theatre, Chichester Memories of an ex-girlfriend are rekindled as a couple prepare to celebrate in this adaptation of the filmThis story spans a week in the life of a couple approach…
Tony-winning choreographer Sonya Tayeh was ‘broken up’ when she heard about the Irish singer-songwriter’s death three years ago. Now she and a group of over-40s female dancers are payi…
This year brings world-renowned choreographers, ballet cabaret and fluffy clowns for toddlersThis was San Francisco Ballet’s big new commission in 2024, now getting its European premiere a…
Òran Mór, Glasgow Nay Dhanak’s clownish tale follows an odd couple struggling to live up to their roles passing news from royal power to the publicWe are in a medieval world of portentou…
Old Vic theatre, LondonPatrick Marber’s perplexing revival of the salesmen classic amps up the comedy and the performance of masculinity but veers into Bugsy Malone territoryThere are few …
Sadler’s Wells, London The annual Flamenco festival kicks off in spectacular style, with a show of serpentine grace and rhythmic precisionThere are lots of places in life where being full …
‘I wanted to celebrate the women who are reinventing morris dancing. They took me to a pub and gave me a pickled egg mashed up in a packet of crisps. I felt like I’d entered a magical wo…
Arcola theatre, London Despite some strong satire, there is too much telling and not enough showing in Christine Bacon’s play exploring global inequalityThis play about the ethics of inter…
From Noël Coward to Martine McCutcheon, the famed institution has been hothousing talent for more than a century. Our writer finds there’s a softer approach these days – and a food bank…
James Bond actor, who is only the second non-royal woman to be celebrated in this way, called the honour ‘truly overwhelming’Dame Judi Dench is to have a West End theatre renamed after h…
Marina Market, CorkMichael Glenn Murphy is the accidental soldier and reluctant revolutionary reckoning with his past in Deirdre Kinahan’s touching drama of regret and returnA ferry termin…
Hugely successful London show to open in the US, with performances beginning in MarchMarmalade bagels at the ready: London’s Paddington Bear musical is to open on Broadway next spring. The…