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…
Smith will play the Narrator this summer when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical returns to the Palladium Sheridan Smith will return to the West End stage this summer in a new produc…
Artistic director who won acclaim for her work with Maxine Peake is appointed to new role at Lamda London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) has appointed Sarah Frankcom as its new di…
As their stunning Sgt Pepper dance show tours the UK, Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson recall how they fell for the album's 'hokey, vaudeville' charms The light-footed Fred Astaire is among the…
Downton Abbey actor stars in Christopher Hampton's A German Life about Nazi leader's assistant, who died in 2017Maggie Smith is to play Joseph Goebbels' secretary, Brunhilde Pomsel, in a new…
Former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe steps into limelight in her production of Angela Carter adaptationThe theatre director Emma Rice is to take over one of the lead roles in Wise…
Matthew Lopez's epic drama wins three prizes, while Marianne Elliott's production of Company is named best musicalThe Inheritance, an epic seven-hour drama about young gay New Yorkers, has b…
Bitter Wheat " 'a black farce about a badly behaved movie mogul' " to open at the Garrick theatre, London, on 7 JuneJohn Malkovich is to star in a "farce" inspired by the Harvey Weinstein sc…
It started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell allAcross the road from Victoria Statio…
Celebrated for her performances in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! Channing also earned an Oscar nomination for Thoroughly Modern Millie Carol Channing, the American actor who ori…
It is a stage sensation in France " not to mention Kazakhstan and Korea " but Notre Dame de Paris was panned by critics when it first hit London. Now it's back, in the original FrenchEarly o…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonMildred Hubble's misadventures are told with wit and ingenuity in a touring production based on Jill Murphy's booksJill Murphy was 15 when she invented Mildr…
Iskander, a theatre-maker and former NHS executive, succeeds David Jubb, who called it a 'fantastic appointment'Battersea Arts Centre in south London has appointed Tarek Iskander as its new …
The Egg, Bath French poodles face a dastardly end unless our swashbuckling heroes come to the rescue in this high-energy kids' version of the classic adventure story'Are you here for ze exec…
New show links HG Wells's sci-fi novel and Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation and explores climate of fear preceding the US presidential electionIt is one of the most famous radio broadcas…
Hackney Empire, LondonThis show has a dastardly villain in Jacob Peas Bogg and some spirited performances but there is nothing like its dameWriter-director Susie McKenna and composer Steve E…
New drama Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile looks back at the life of the playwright who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob TooA new drama is to revisit the life and early death of Andrea Dunbar, the p…
Exclusive: New work created in honour of the late dancer and performed by Vidya Patel and Daniela Maccari, who has taken on his signature stage rolesA tribute performance has been created fo…
Know your strengths and eat boiled eggs … how do a musical-theatre star, a ballerina and an opera singer cope with the demands of their roles " and what we can we learn from them?The light…
The actor, who is performing in Shakespeare's tragedy on the Olivier stage, is to make her National Theatre Live debut with one of her real reptile co-stars When the National Theatre's Anton…
Three shows in London, New York and Los Angeles will be live-streamed in April, on what would have been the choreographer's 100th birthdaySeventy-five dancers are to perform a total of 300 s…
In her new solo show, Haley McGee values the gifts her exes gave her, while rating how much fun they were " and how good the sex wasImagine an episode of The Antiques Roadshow where the obje…