As Theatre of Dreams arrives in London, the celebrated choreographer and composer explains how having his laptop stolen was a blessing in disguise for his new show Hofesh Shechter walks out …
His gangster Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui turned him into a star but from his earliest roles the actor had an unforgettable expressive force ' Rossiter interviewed by the Guard…
Gielgud theatre, LondonRylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O'Casey's 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession's J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the long…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonMixing the personal and political into one consciousness-raising 'anti-biography', Khalid Abdalla's solo show takes in western colonialism, 9/11, British identit…
The Dipping House, Stoke-on-TrentClaybody Theatre's show about a famed flying saucer sighting on a housing estate is whimsical fun Back in 1967, the most extraordinary thing about Bentilee w…
@sohoplace, LondonNassim Soleimanpour's experiment in live theatre has a different performer discover the script for the first time each night " but Sheen is especially well suited to its mi…
My niece Clare Jarvis, who has died aged 51 from cancer, was a fine actor and a talented singer and musician. After graduating from the Manchester School of Theatre in 1994, at a time when t…
Alasdair Buchan, who directed his version aged 11 in 1997, will play mysterious stranger in long-running whodunnit As the curtain falls on every performance of The Mousetrap, the world's lo…
17 July 1969: The actor talks about his role as Hitler in Brecht's Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and his career so far 'It was hard not to stare at him all the time': inside the remarkable r…
Royal Ballet and Opera, London; Sadler's Wells, LondonChristopher Wheeldon's international hit returns home as thrilling as ever. Plus: three contrasting works by the National Ballet of Cana…
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Almeida, LondonJohn Lithgow is magnificent as Roald Dahl in Nicholas Hytner's production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voic…
Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a br…
A new theatre adaptation is giving Rose Glass's creepy tale of religious obsession an industrial north-east slant " but it hasn't lost the film's fear factor "We're telling a story of loneli…
I was 16 when I became obsessed with Look Back in Anger. Now, in a double bill with Roots at the Almeida, both dramas' eternal truths are clear John Osborne and Arnold Wesker had a lot in co…
Birmingham HippodromeEmploying five female choreographers in one production is a bold move but this sweeping celebration of strong women does not cohere There's no doubting the good intentio…
The Egg, BathPerformance poet Toby Thompson has a breezy rapport with the young audience as he retells the bittersweet novella with modern trimmings One of the pleasures of Toby Thompson's s…
Sadler's Wells, LondonA triple bill of modern pieces highlight the challenges of modern ballet, but only in Crystal Pite's work does it all comes together, especially in the dancing of Siphe…
Dorfman theatre, London In Tanika Gupta's play, Meera Syal is a steely south Asian matriarch whose Lear-like decline into dementia upends her family There are quibbles with Tanika Gupta'spla…
Ken Caillat claims that the 70s-set play is 'substantially similar' to his memoir focused on the making of Rumours Ken Caillat, a producer known for sound engineering Fleetwood Mac, and Stev…
Playing gimcrack games and being teased by Greg Davies' digital avatar in a facsimile of the Taskmaster house will delight fans of the TV show " once the kinks are ironed out What's the key …
Almeida theatre, LondonWatching John Osborne's fulminating Jimmy Porter feels curiously cold, while the same cast bring subtleties to Arnold Wesker's classic The "angry young man" has not ag…
The actor, known best for TV roles in Quantum Leap and Star Trek, plays the well-loved president in a one-man show Scott Bakula has just finished a noon student matinee. The audience include…
He has done frothy romcoms and weighty epics such as Tony-winning The Inheritance. Now the US playwright is revisiting the drink-fuelled drama that terrified him as he wrote it In 2008, the…
Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York The Oscar-winning actor makes a smooth transfer to Broadway but Ayad Akhtar's play is a mixed bag of insight and exhaustion The writer Jacob McNeal is, amon…
Chichester Festival theatreThis drama about Mick Jagger and Keith Jones's 1967 drugs bust curiously foregrounds their lawyer's family issues The public outcry that followed the prison senten…