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…
Actor, who appeared in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Waitress, Hair and Hello, Dolly!, has died of a rare form of cancer Gavin Creel, a Broadway musical theater veteran who won a Tony award for …
Everyman, Liverpool Julian Moore-Cooke is terrific as Padraic, avenging his pet, but the mix of humour and gory violence needs fine-tuning in this revival The joke at the heart of Martin McD…
The Hollywood giants are joined online by audio noir from Danny Krass, Nicole Scherzinger's Norma Desmond and a one-woman 25th birthday party Sharon Duncan-Brewster plays Pink, an insomniac …
Actors Meera Syal and Shobna Gulati, with playwright Tanika Gupta, explain how their National Theatre production springs from the anguish of losing their mothers Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta'…
Ã’ran Mór, Glasgow A plain-speaking policeman finds himself confronted by one of history's great impostors in Jonny Donahoe's entertaining play Anastasia is attempting to look regal in…
Soho theatre, LondonThe Drag Race UK winner draws inspiration from a human cannonball in an unsubtle hour of daredevil feats and jokes about flatulence Some shows win new fans; some just ple…
Little Angel Studios, LondonAs you would expect from the queen of kids' crime fiction, there's a grisly murder to solve and a lineup of dubious suspects that leaves the audience abuzz with t…
Royal Opera House, LondonVivid designs, frog and fish footmen and a comedy dame bring good energy to the Royal Ballet's Alice, with beautiful dancing from the leads This ballet is at its bes…
Birmingham HippodromeThis production of Frederick Ashton's version of the bucolic love story allows the beauty and humour to flow naturally from the choreography As the rain comes down and t…
Crucible, SheffieldWith few directorial flourishes and a compelling central performance, this bare-bones version of the domestic drama gives the story its full due Perhaps the best thing to …
Theatre Royal Haymarket; Olivier; Young Vic, LondonBen Whishaw and Lucian Msamati add star power to James Macdonald's thoughtful Beckett; David Oyelowo's Coriolanus is dwarfed by epic stagin…
Everyman, LiverpoolMartin McDonagh's black comedy about a violent republican terrorist can feel like a parody of 007 in its action but it is hard to be stirred by the dully repetitive scenes…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeChoreography accentuates the otherness of the creatures in a fluid take on the dark coming-of-age fable Form thrillingly matches content in this new stag…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThis frothy farce about an 1890 cabinet minister 'accepting favours' never stoops to nudge-winking to make its point " and is all the better for it If the ide…
Tron, GlasgowNearly 30 years on, environmental activists' occupation of the North Sea fuel store gets an ambitious, heartfelt musical treatment This time last year, Just Stop Oil protestors …
The choreographer talks about overnight fame, 'extreme ambition' and her goofy/serious duet, staged by the National Ballet of Canada Emma Portner wishes I didn't need to ask her about being …
My experience on an aircraft that nearly crashed served as the starting point for my new Royal Court piece " just don't call it a true story When I was younger, my family and I were on board…
Dame Maggie Smith, who has died aged 89, had an incredibly varied career as a star of stage, screen and TV " from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to Downton Abbey to Harry Potter. We look back…
A distinguished, double Oscar-winning actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Harry Potter' Appreciations by Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw and Mark Lawson' A life in pictures' H…
Rose theatre, Kingston Nell Barlow is heartbreaking as the doomed heroine of the alt-reality boarding-school tale, expertly adapted by Suzanne Heathcote Any dramatic adaptation of a well-kno…
Before she reached a new level of celebrity in the 21st century, Smith had a remarkable big-screen career, channelling her stage presence into the camera whether as Jean Brodie or her tragic…
Created in 1968 and making groundbreaking strides, the organisation is looking to further expand Home is where the heart is but it also brought hardships for the National Black Theatre (NBT)…