Unicorn, LondonFilskit Theatre's winter warmer for under-sixes is a cracking tale of parenting penguin-styleMy five-year-old daughter Hilda loves penguins, principally Pingu and Peso, the de…
Berwick Kaler, who says this year's show at York Theatre Royal is his last, promises loyal local audience a night of 'absolute rubbish'After hundreds of frock changes, decades of in-jokes, c…
Dante or Die's 80s-set touring show Take On Me celebrates community fitness centres and gives roles to locals If there's a drama at your local leisure centre it's probably no more than lane …
Silbert " whose first job was as a Hampstead script reader " will leave Birmingham Rep for her new post in spring 2019Roxana Silbert has been appointed artistic director of Hampstead theatre…
Playwright-director will take over from Madani Younis at the west London venue in JanuaryThe playwright and director Lynette Linton has been announced as the new artistic director at the Bus…
Musical improv elves, cabaret and interactive hijinks abound in these festive shows for familiesRoyal & Derngate, Northampton, 27 November-30 December. Then touring. Continue reading...
Superstar comic will give first UK performances in seven years at the Hammersmith ApolloJerry Seinfeld is to give four rare performances in London when he brings his standup show to the Hamm…
The UK tour will visit theatres with a personal connection to the actor and performances will encourage audience members to share the stageIan McKellen is to celebrate his 80th birthday next…
Original music by Imogen Heap features in the ambitious two-part stage playMusic from the triumphant West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been released as a new album by the G…
Installation by the stage door honours stars including Bruce Forsyth, Cilla Black and Cliff RichardAndrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled a "wall of fame" installation on the exterior of the Londo…
Jubb, who has spent 15 years in the role, is to leave the arts centre that has fully reopened after its fire three years agoBattersea Arts Centre, the vibrant London venue that recently full…
The Egg, BathWith two turntables, a street's worth of houses and a German fairytale, performance poet Toby Thompson creates a beautiful show for over-sevensChildren live in the moment but by…
Almeida director Rupert Goold says Anne Washburn's new play Shipwreck will 'wrestle with what Trump is both politically and existentially'A "nightmarish comedy" about Donald Trump, with char…
British dramatist, whose plays included Valued Friends and I Just Stopped By to See the Man, is celebrated for nurturing later generationsTributes have been paid to the influential British p…
The Trills musician is used to her lyrics being used in trailers but her play Songlines puts her in the spotlight with the actors Playwrights don't usually share the stage with the performer…
Michael Patrick's youth was blighted by a bizarre testicular condition and the death of his father. They provided the perfect material for his moving and wincingly funny one-man showWhen Mic…
Dance Base, EdinburghRamesh Meyyappan's solo theatre show explores our daily struggle to hold it all togetherYou know the feeling. The alarm clock goes off and for a few seconds it's all a b…
Dance Base, EdinburghThe four brothers that make up Taiwan's Chang Dance Theatre share stories of family life in a tender and playful showOne childhood memory recurs in this vivid, bracingly…
Toilet-paper weaponry, cake-baking, nautical adventure and a drag pop concert … here are some of the festival's most imaginative performances for young peopleSummerhall, 10am, until 26 Aug…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghOrdinary chairs become monsters, vehicles and a perilous walkway in Compagnie Nyash's gently mischievous performance for over-threesFifteen junkshop chairs enter the …
Giving his partner's daughter free rein during the creative process has resulted in Owen Roberts' most surreal show to date " and the sort of laughs other comics at Edinburgh dream ofIn a sw…
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will collaborate with the director on first Broadway version not to follow original choreographyThe Jets and the Sharks are returning to Broadway with some new mov…
Following a fire that damaged the building in 2015, BAC opens up renovated hall " and celebrates community spirit in a photo-letter to the US presidentBattersea Arts Centre is to reopen its …
When Matt Lucas withdrew from the opening night of Me and My Girl, his stand-in had just two hours to prepareEvery understudy awaits their big break. Yet few replace a household name on the …
Tributes paid to the former dancer and choreographer whose West End hits included The Phantom of the OperaGillian Lynne, the leading British choreographer who created the slinky moves of Mac…