As performers across the world see gigs cancelled, the former Billy Elliot star will be facing the unknown with a shake and a shimmy He was cast as Billy Elliot at 12, toured the UK in hit m…
Actor's earnest re-creation of John Lennon classic draws satirical response from all-star lineup of comics fronted by Joe Lycett In times of crisis a celebrity viral video can unite us eith…
As venues cancel performances in the wake of the coronavirus, they are asking arts lovers to donate and book advance tickets ' Coronavirus and culture " a list of major cancellations' Corona…
As the coronavirus causes venues to close their doors, an increase of live-streamed theatre is expected. Here are some of the shows online now or coming soon ' Coronavirus and culture " a li…
Actors, writers, technicians and others in the industry facing hardship and 'critical threat to livelihoods' following shutdowns ' Coronavirus and culture " a list of major cancellations' Co…
Acclaimed director will take over from Jeremy Herrin at the UK touring company Joe Hill-Gibbins has been appointed as the artistic director of the touring theatre company Headlong. He will t…
Dead Ringers impressionist takes lead role in stage version of bestselling book on British identity The impressionist Jon Culshaw is to play Bill Bryson in a new stage adaptation of Notes fr…
Production uses hits of Welsh singer Tom Jones to tell story of the character Tom Jones in Henry Fielding's 1749 novel Delilah, Sex Bomb and other Tom Jones hits are to be brought together i…
After getting a chest infection, the actor has complained about backstage facilities for actors in older theatres The actor Britt Ekland has slammed the backstage conditions she encountered …
TV co-stars compete for acting prizes at this year's theatre awards, whose nominations are led by the musicals & Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof and Dear Evan Hansen Fleabag stars Phoebe Wal…
LA Dance Project In Benjamin Millepied's piece I Fall, I Flow, I Melt, mostly performed to Bach, the dancers sparkle like sun on the ocean On the edge of the Los Angeles Arts District, the h…
Pasadena Playhouse, Los AngelesThe actor brings out the dark humour in Zeller's modern classic about a man with dementia, fluctuating from absurdity to despair in a heartbeat It is more tha…
Royal Ballet reveals adaptation of Atwood's trilogy of dystopian novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam The British choreographer Wayne McGregor is to stage an adaptation…
Unicorn theatre, LondonIn Roland Schimmelpfennig's play, three actors narrate a day in the life of a young person who uses imagination to escape a precarious existence For his first season i…
Prebble's play A Very Expensive Poison won the prize, named after the Guardian's former chief theatre critic, at the Critics' Circle awards A Very Expensive Poison, Lucy Prebble's ambitious …
Two American shows that explore adolescent anxiety have been propelled by young online communities in a digital blizzard of streams, fan art and animatics Schoolboys hunch over laptops in th…
Ian Shaw plays his actor father in West End play about the troubled production of Spielberg's first blockbuster When Robert Shaw was filming the blockbuster Jaws, the actor's young son came…
Gatiss to play ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley, in his version of Charles Dickens novella He has long written Christmas ghost stories for television and now Mark G…
The IT Crowd actor will star as the green-living Barbara in a stage adaptation of the popular 70s sitcom Katherine Parkinson is to star in a new stage version of the 1970s sitcom The Good Li…
Casting call goes out for film version of the Roald Dahl classic, led by Matthew Warchus, who staged RSC's smash hit The announcement of a casting call for children aged nine to 11, "no tall…
A Dog's Tale, written by cat-loving playwright Poppy Hollman, tells the story of a British institution and has a canine/feline rap battle Tom Hooper's extravagant blockbuster may have given …
There are more than 1,000 shots in George Romero's classic horror movie. Can a band of actors, armed with video cameras and Barbie dolls, recreate it? A winding road. Two bickering siblings …
Musical will premiere in London in September with new story and 'hugely witty' lyrics Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a new version of Cinderella with Killing Eve scriptwriter Emera…
LIVR allows subscribers to catch up on theatre in 360-degree virtual reality. How does it compare with the fringe experience? I'm having a beer and enjoying an Edinburgh fringe show from the…
Little Angel theatre, LondonComposer Barb Jungr and director Samantha Lane serve up a characterful take on a Scandinavian folktale, with lashings of puppetry and song There are so many Snow…