Manchester international festival opens today with the first performance of wonder.land, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini, directed by Rufus Norris. Take a clo…
Stephen Daldry, Max Stafford-Clark, Lyndsey Turner and more on the challenges and triumphs that come with staging Churchill's workCaryl Churchill: the playwright's finest hours Continue read…
Join us from 5pm BST on Sunday 28 June to watch four retellings of Shakespeare's plays by the celebrated experimental theatre group Forced Entertainment. Each of the plays will be performed …
wonder.land is a new musical inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It has music by Damon Albarn, lyrics by Moira Buffini and is directed by National Theatre's Rufus Norris. In the show, Lewis Car…
From Memory of What Could Have Been by Renato Paroni de Castro to Babel by Joshua Legge, take a closer look at the six works in Choreographics, staged by ENB at the Lilian Baylis Studio last…
Watch an exclusive trailer for Caryl Churchill's The Skriker, made by the animator Alice Dunseath. Churchill's apocalyptic 1994 play about the eponymous shape-shifter is being revived by dir…
School captain Michael Morpurgo is not happy about the way his pupils are portrayed and Harold Pinter's latest play The Collection is reviewedFilming of "The Lonely Stage" in the precincts o…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickThe American playwright's horrifying one-act drama produces genuine palpitations and is presented alongside the rediscovered Mister ParadiseFirst produced off Bro…
Renowned Australian choreographer Sue Healey brings her show On View: Live Portraits to Sydney after being part of Melbourne's Dance Massive festival. The show blends live performance with r…
Comedians including Stephen K Amos, Rachel Parris and Phil Wang choose the venues with the mightiest MCs and perkiest punters (one heckling dog included)Keith Farnan: The first comedy club t…
The madcap comedy duo are taking their creations on tour " and will join us for a live webchat from 1pm BST on Tuesday 16 June. Post your questions in the comments below 3.18pm BST Vic Reeve…
'Responsibly shocking' and 'merely depressing' are among the verdicts for Jonathan Maitland's controversial play about Jimmy SavileThe reviews are in for An Audience with Jimmy Savile, Jonat…
The National Theatre's new production We Want You to Watch explores the impact of porn. Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen from the theatre company RashDash and director Caroline Steinbeis disc…
From sex comedies and recycled self portraits to inclusive dance groups and ground-breaking theatre, here are some of our favourite programmes and piecesMore from the Disability arts seriesS…
The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star has published his autobiography " and is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat at 1pm BST on Wednesday 10 June. Post yours in the comm…
British actress Helen Mirren was among Broadway stars taking top honours at this year's Tony awards in New York on Sunday night. She won her first Tony for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in …
The actor Richard Johnson has died after a short illness at the Royal Marsden hospital in Chelsea, London. During his 60-year career, he featured in many films, including Khartoum in 1966 al…
The programme for this year's festival is out and among established talents such as Daniel Kitson and Philip Ridley will be the theatre-makers of tomorrowPeople have been predicting the Edin…
The Seagull is a low-spirited play, and the sharpness of tragedy in it is blunted by Chekhov's satire Continue reading...
The American Sniper star rules the reviews with his West End theatre debut in the role of Joseph Merrick Continue reading...
This timelapse video shows Circus Oz's big top tent being raised in Melbourne ahead of its season from 17 June to 12 July. The structure requires 1.5 km of steel wire rope, 182 poles and 402…
Dancers were out in force in Sydney's Hyde Park on Friday as part of Australia-wide protests against more than $100m in cuts to the country's top arts funding body, the Australia Council. Ar…
Kinshasa's sapeurs (members of the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes) see fashion as a form of rebellion. Traditionally, they sported the sort of clothes worn by thei…
A character assassin coaxes comedians from the crowd, a Barry award-winner finds solace in standup, plus Gen Fricker and Sam Campbell Continue reading...
Polly Stenham, Bola Agbaje, Tim Price and Anya Reiss are some of the writers starring in a new photography exhibition, Playwrights in Focus, at Southwark Playhouse until 15 November Continue…