Patsy Ferran will take over from Lydia Wilson when the London production opens a week late, alongside co-stars Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan London's Almeida theatre has cancelled the first w…
The star formerly known as Cheryl Tweedy will play Jenny, who believes her new home is haunted, in the hit play by Danny Robins The former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl is to follow in the foots…
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Ivo van Hove's epic, boisterous family fun and a dance fable for Christmas "I never think about the audience until the last days before we perf…
Polka theatre, LondonCharles Way's farce has squabbling siblings, festive karaoke and a cranky rodent as a family tries to keep their pet shop afloat In children's theatre, little ideas can …
Unicorn theatre, LondonPlaywright Yasmin Joseph and director Ola Ince team up for a drama that captures the warmth of a family reconnecting in Jamaica Here's a new play with so many fun idea…
Dominion theatre, LondonChoreographed candy cane twirling and funny moments from the Will Ferrell film don't save this show from being a bland corporate Christmas experience Son of a nutcrac…
Author Hanya Yanagihara and director Ivo van Hove adapt 'mesmerising' story about effects of child abuse for London stage An adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara's bestselling novel A Little Life …
She starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights while eight months pregnant and played Cinderella's stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber's abruptly closed musical. Now Hamilton-Barritt has b…
Written by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes, The Motive and the Cue is about the famous 1964 production of Hamlet and will open at the National Theatre Johnny Flynn is to play Richard …
The festival will celebrate 40th anniversary in 2023 with London shows featuring the actor talking to Rob Delaney, plus host of standup acts Just for Laughs, the comedy festival that began i…
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterEuphoric songs are delivered with splendour as the duo's musical finally gets its European premiere, with a fantastic lead performance by Grace Mouat A foot inju…
Her cat-tastic stage show is a riff on Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical that swerves into emotionally raw territory. The Edinburgh fringe sensation talks about trauma, taboos and the importance…
The actors will bring a revival of Sam Steiner's 2015 play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons to London, Manchester and Brighton, directed by Josie Rourke Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner are …
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Alan Ayckbourn's 87th play, live performance from Ukraine and lost showtunes The Bridge theatre's big Christmas show from 2021, based on Philip…
The production, beginning next February, will be directed by Dominic Cooke for @sohoplace in London Sophie Okonedo is to star as Medea at the new West End theatre @sohoplace in a production…
Everyman theatre, Cheltenham This adaptation of the postwar caper has its moments but lacks the adroit humour and tautness of the film Ealing Studios' 1951 comedy of bowler-hatted banking an…
MJ the Musical, based around the making of the singer's 1992-93 Dangerous world tour, won four Tony awards in New York A new musical about Michael Jackson that has been feted in New York yet…
Vaults, LondonAn exuberant but baggy Stranger Things parody hardly turns its source material upside down It has a pulsating synth soundtrack and brought Kate Bush an overdue No 1 so why not …
Finborough theatre, LondonGeorg Kaiser's century-old call for a societal reset may not always hit the mark, but it is given an invigorated panache by Collide theatre company What a day, as K…
Mercury theatre, ColchesterAn uneven new play from Mischief Theatre skews darker than their hit comedies, with jarring tragedy amid the clowning The Play That Goes Wrong's Mischief Theatre h…
Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a Tony award-winning musical, international dance and a radical dramatisation of the crucifixion story Broadway stage sensation Audra McD…
The set, costume, video and lighting designers of Disney's London production " now in its second year in the West End " break the ice about its frocks, crystals and astonishing effects Chris…
Italian actor, who often worked with his wife Kathryn Hunter, was a co-founder of Complicité, a gifted clown and a voiceover artist for Pingu Tributes have been paid to the actor Marcello M…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSamuel Barnett is remarkable in Marcelo Dos Santos's one-man play which analyses joke-craft and a comedian's compulsions Towards the end of this enthralling…
Underbelly, EdinburghAlex Howarth's hugely moving play has plenty of humour and a homemade aesthetic, while asking tough questions about parenting and the law When Cassie and her younger sis…