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…
According to the reviews, the 'arrestingly husky' Lohan has 'genuine if unstable star presence' and 'breathless naivety' in her West End debut' Speed-the-Plow: in pictures' Why Mamet's play …
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamildrops project gives his leftover lyrics a new life. What happens to other songs dropped from musicals " and how do their creators feel about them?When Hamilton open…
Playwright Martin McDonagh and Ireland's president Michael D Higgins pay tribute to revered dramatist whose works include A Whistle in the DarkTributes have been paid to the influential play…
Angels in America and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are in the running for prizes at New York's theatre ceremonyThey won acclaim in London for their stage performances as a grownup Harry…
Angela Lansbury's return to the West End stage in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit is one of London's hottest tickets but the star is still best known as TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher. Can you gu…
New artistic director will stage a musical version of Twelfth Night and introduces £5 tickets for every first preview at the theatreThe Young Vic's new artistic director, Kwame Kwei-Armah…
Playwright Barney Norris will collaborate with the Booker prize-winning author on a production opening in Northampton in 2019Twenty-five years after it was made into an Oscar-nominated film,…
Tributes paid to acclaimed actor who had been appearing in the Donmar's production of The Way of the WorldThe Donmar Warehouse in London has announced the sudden death of the actor Alex Beck…
Outfits worn by Susannah York, Patrick Stewart and Sinéad Cusack will also be listed on eBay to raise money for the Royal Shakespeare Company's costume workshopA red floor-length coat sport…
Exclusive: exhibition looks back on London cultural centre's legacy through 50 years of archive material An innovative new exhibition at London's Southbank Centre gives visitors a performer'…
Death is announced of a 'passionate collaborator' who choreographed innovative shows such as Enron and danced in Bourne productionsScott Ambler, the dancer who played the original Prince Sie…
Actors to share the stage in Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Tartuffe at London's Theatre Royal HaymarketOne is known for playing an unpredictable Birmingham gangster; the other for a ru…
Little Angel theatre, LondonBad puns, circus tricks and goggle-eyed jellyfish abound in a smart adaptation of the popular picture bookThe picture books by Julia Donaldson with illustrations …
Standing at the Sky's Edge, which features old and new songs by the musician, will play at the city's Crucible theatreThe singer and songwriter Richard Hawley will explore the history of the…