Available on BBC iPlayerProvocative playwright David Ireland returns with a slow-burn character study screened as part of the BBC's Lights Up festival In Cyprus Avenue (2016) and Ulster Amer…
He's no stranger to walk-outs and trigger warnings. So the daring dramatist is amazed the BBC is broadcasting his dark new play about a Belfast woman's lockdown crisis A decade ago, David Ir…
Peter Barnes' monologue about a royal footman was commissioned for radio but never broadcast until now. Director Philip Franks and others unravel its mystery The most celebrated set of drama…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonThe emotional and physical distance of this epistolary novel for the stage is ideal for Covid-era theatre, performed here with power and finesse Pandemic theat…
Theatre Royal BathStaged in a Covid-safe auditorium, this rattling revival of Harold Pinter's mind-stretching drama is enjoyably brisk Harold Pinter came to regret his frequent speech direct…
London PalladiumJason Robert Brown's song cycle on the theme of life choices adapts well to social distancing, with a cast whose big voices make the huge auditorium feel small Balancing dram…
Available online In Richard Nelson's third play about a US white liberal family Zooming through the pandemic, the Apples are forced to confront whether they are racist In the Guardian on Sat…
From kick-ass screen roles to award-winning theatre and TV ones, with a curious sideline in nuns, the Yorkshire-born actor's class and spirit earned her a magnificent career Diana Rigg, Ave…
Harry Gabriel, gatekeeper of London's Shaftesbury theatre, recalls greeting the stars, his bond with Peter O'Toole and how the Harlem Globetrotters launched his West End career The staff ent…
What makes Wicked and Starlight Express so addictive? A new documentary, Repeat Attenders, chronicles the reasons superfans return to see their favourites You might guess that the Australian…
The Remote ReadDavid Morrissey headed up a cast united on Zoom for a show that took on poignant new meaning and exuded theatrical joy The countdown to the play beginning was on screen rather…
From a musical version of Only Fools and Horses to a stage show based on The Good Life, small-screen comedies are inspiring theatre-makers During the social confinements caused by coronaviru…
Barbican, London Cheek By Jowl's handsome Italian-language update of the cruel classic with Milan's Piccolo Teatro delivers a harsh verdict on political corruption When Chekhov is performed …
Gielgud theatre, LondonDavid Mitchell is engaging and confident as Ben Elton brings his hit TV sitcom to the stage " it's the definite article Audiences unfamiliar with British TV will wonde…
Both the Donmar Warehouse and the Royal Court are staging plays that are under three-quarters of an hour long. Are theatregoers being short-changed? People do a double take at the advisory n…
Hampstead theatre, LondonAl Blyth's debut play explores how far into the lives of citizens a state can pry, and the effects on the snoopers themselves After the movie Official Secrets, about…
Old Vic, LondonDeftly bringing out the humour in Samuel Beckett's lines, the two actors bring fresh life to a tale of imminent doom As a blind man and his valet swap evidence of personal and…
Dressed in pyjamas and wellies, the great actor talks about his astronaut training in Russia, the original Cats " and putting his might behind his daughter Rosalind's very personal plays On …
Wyndham's, LondonJason Manford is a charming, showtune-obsessed homicide cop in this fun companion to Chicago and Cabaret Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975) became Broadway and West End peren…
Bush House, King's College LondonSimon Russell Beale, Mark Gatiss and Catherine Tate were on hilarious form in this new version of the state-of-the-nation comedy How is it possible that an a…
Storyhouse, ChesterSet against the never-never-land of present-day austerity, Gary Owen's production broadens the play's appeal JM Barrie's 1904 play about a boy who never ages gets older by…
The theatre and opera director, television producer, presenter, writer, comic and doctor had a special interest in the human mind " and a special example of one, too Sir Jonathan Miller die…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonElectrifying performances light up a glittering New York Christmas story in this warm-hearted, tuneful two-hander On Christmas Eve, puppyish twentysomething…
In a rare interview, Baker explains why she hates commercial theatre (except Hello, Dolly!) and how she anticipated Trump and #MeToo in her new work at the National, The Antipodes It is not …
Chichester Festival theatreSet in a London pub during an England v Germany football match, the topical take on racism and nationalism shows Roy Williams's 2002 play hasn't dated It is unusua…