Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghBrigitte Aphrodite and Quiet Boy's colourful show follows a trio of teens in Margate who form a punk band and campaign to save a tree Planting saplings has …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis musical for over-threes adapted from the eponymous picturebooks comes with delightful puppets and lashings of puns Kids love pirates. Kids also love dinosa…
Roy Alexander Weise and Bryony Shanahan unite to 'make work with and for' the city's people Two acclaimed young directors are to jointly run Manchester's Royal Exchange, one of the UK's most…
Sleepovers, bossy monarchs and a desert-island McDonald's … The Orange Tree theatre introduces kids to The Tempest with a hands-on creative extravaganza 'Suspense!" "Romance!" "And a twist…
She was ruthless Ellaria in the TV epic. As she appears in a Noël Coward comedy, the actor talks about her dreams of returning to mime " and why sticking with her name may have hurt her c…
Brooke Shields, Robert Powell, Jeremy Irons and Fanny Ardant share their memories of working with the virtuoso director He was very tough but in a loving way. Franco was always wanting and e…
Italian equally celebrated as director of films, theatre and opera over 60-year career Franco Zeffirelli, one of Italy's most revered artistic figures, has died at the age of 96. In a career…
The actor's one-man show includes a reading from Lord of the Rings, anecdotes about his Shakespeare days and a revival of his panto dame Widow Twankey A West End run has been announced for I…
They have left millions boggled with their graceful card acts, great escapes and audacious stunts. But can The Illusionists make magic's fusty reputation vanish? Our instinct when watching m…
In the run-up to the Edinburgh festival we'll be picking highlights from the programme. Here's a dozen for starters, including Eddie Izzard and a ukulele comedy Assembly George Square Studio…
Iffy insults fly, heads bounce around and the wiper of the king's bottom takes a bow " all in the moat where alligators swam 'I'm Anne Boleyn, yeah, I'm married to this dude," goes the rap. …
Opera House, WuppertalPina Bausch merges the domestic and dream worlds in a dark but playful version of Shakespeare's tragedy In Since She, the first of two new full-length pieces created by…
Time-travel film's co-creator to write dialogue while Olly Dobson takes Marty McFly role A stage musical based on the blockbuster film Back to the Future will have its world premiere in Manc…
Charley Miles's There Are No Beginnings is based on interviews with women who lived through Peter Sutcliffe's reign of terror A play about the impact on women's lives of the hunt for the Yor…
Milton Keynes theatreLiz Pichon brings the young hero of her witty books to life in an adaptation that explodes with animations There is barely a boring sentence in Liz Pichon's books about …
The 600-seat theatre, due to open in Facebook's new offices in 2021, will be an adaptable auditorium in the mould of the Bridge A new theatre is to open in King's Cross, central London, in a…
Audiences will choose to be crooked traders or FBI agents in London production of Jordan Belfort's memoir this September The Wolf of Wall Street, the outrageous memoir of former stockbroker …
The actor-writer will perform her comic monologue, on which the hit TV show was based, for 30 performances this summer It is the filthy, fiercely funny monologue that received mixed reviews…
Bells and Spells casts the French star as a kleptomaniac in a performance that leaves the audience guessing In her mystifying shows, Aurélia Thierrée has crossed the stage in an upside-dow…
Vaudeville theatre claims to break new ground in London with parent and baby showing of hit play Emilia Cliche has it that matinee audiences are full of snoring older people. But it was infa…
Ian McKellen throws his wand behind underdog in dramatisation of themed pub's legal threat from Middle-earth Enterprises It is the nail-biting, crowdpleasing story of a plucky everyday hero …
Jimmy Carr and Katy Brand among those to pay public respect to 'fearless' comic who fell suddenly ill during Bicester gig Tributes have been paid to the anarchic comedian Ian Cognito, who di…
Leyton Sports Ground, LondonThis craft-based installation celebrates a London borough's history of metalwork " and the wonder of tin On a wall opposite Blackhorse Road underground station i…
The horror-film choreographer's new show, Vessel, weaves spells with writhing limbs, menacing ritual figures and a cauldron of gloop. He explains its origins 'A sculpture contains an energy,…
Danny Dyer saluted royalty, Akram Khan told us to keep moving and Laura Wade remembered meeting her husband Olivier awards: list of winners Laura Wade (best new comedy, Home, I'm Darling): "…