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): "…
In her new show, Muckers, the actor and playwright revisits the mess, mischief and bamboozling anxieties of growing up 'Ask her if it's true about the poo!" "Ask her what she really calls he…
Six and Waitress are the latest shows to find singalong success " and without a jukebox hit between them. What's their secret? From The Sound of Music to The Greatest Showman, singalong scre…
New Boulevard theatre aims to awaken area's rebel spirit in the building that hosted Eddie Izzard and Rik Mayall in the 80s A tiny new state-of-the-art theatre seeking to capture the "rebell…
The stage show, directed by Michael Grandage, has been running on Broadway for a year An invasion of tiny Elsas " and a few Annas " will hit London in autumn 2020, as the stage musical of D…
After a Franglais Swan Lake, the comic explains economics with sex dolls in ChiffChaff. She talks about loving horror, how guinea pigs helped her through illness and standing up for comedian…
Walthamstow's Roger Ascham school has a superstar ex-pupil: Matthew Bourne. Now his company is putting on a show with the students " almost 500 of them It looks, at first glance, like a regu…
He grew up listening to his father Pete reciting Shakespeare over breakfast. Now Billy Postlethwaite is taking on the part that obsessed them both: Macbeth Billy Postlethwaite has lost his m…
US dramatist wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize for female playwrights with Fairview, beating dramas by debbie tucker green and Ella Hickson The American dramatist Jackie Sibblies Drury has wo…