The black British performer started out recording with the Rolling Stones, was on the West End stage by 19 and made breakthroughs in TV and theatre 'Trailblazing' TV, film and stage actor Cl…
When John Lithgow got the role of author and antisemite Roald Dahl, friends feared for his safety. He reveals why he's never been one to shy from a challenge There's no denying the physical…
The actor famous for playing Gerri Kellman on starring opposite Mark Rylance on the London stage, her recent emergency operation, and her thoughts on the US election When J Smith-Cameron tel…
Queen Elizabeth Hall; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonQudus Onikeku's dancers jerk, bustle and glide through a puzzling tale of rebirth, while Kate Prince's ZooNation returns to Wo…
Hampstead theatre; Bush theatre, London Overlooked pioneering astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin comes to vivid life in Stella Feehily's slow-burning, enraging drama. And best friends grow …
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotA cast of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent actors throw new light on the star-crossed lovers in Graeae's uneven yet often thrilling show Actors appear, o…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonVaudevillian musical stages the story of a woman who cast herself as Princess Dinubolu of Senegal to become a beauty queen in 1908 Southend In Southend-on-Sea, 190…
Rebecca Frecknall will direct Normal People actor in Tennessee Williams classic at Almeida theatre in London, opening in December Daisy Edgar-Jones is to star in a new production of Cat on a…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonJames Macdonald's production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos Samuel Beckett's 1953 tragicomedy about two woe-begotten men waiti…
London Transport MuseumThis fond bio-drama charts a draughtsman's labour of love to create a comprehensible London Underground diagram He may not be a household name but, 50 years after his …
Leeds Playhouse Revival of Lorraine Hansberry's play follows a family struggling against the odds and delivers a message of hope When Lorraine Hansberry's debut play premiered in 1959, it ma…
The standup is building on his success at the Royal Academy summer exhibition with a book of his work, Art Hole. So has he gone all highbrow? The art reveals all … Despite being best known…
DePrince, who has died aged 29, was a 'beacon of hope' for dancers, says English National Ballet first soloist Michaela Mabinty DePrince, whose death aged 29 was announced on Friday, has bee…
With two new plays opening this autumn, the veteran playwright talks about the risks of writing about real events and the threats to leftwing drama and politics With the world premiere of Th…
Northern Stage, NewcastleVast amounts of shagpile set the scene for Jack Bradfield's production of the grotesque classic about materialism and status chasing It ends with a blast of Prince C…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryContested heritage, inequity and the criminal justice system are explored in poet Casey Bailey's one-man play 'Please do not touch" reads a sign in front of a stole…
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who played Juliet alongside Tom Holland's Romeo, says racist abuse went on for months The actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who received a barrage of online racial …
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotExuberant production sees spoken word and physically expressive BSL users mirroring each other as they audition to take the lead roles Unusually for a Sha…
Nottingham PlayhouseThe musical about a boy who fakes a friendship with a dead student is back, capturing the disconnect between the adult world and childhood reality Just in time for a fres…
Watford Palace theatreStage version of TV movie offers impressive impersonations of the Beatles stars but is more like fan fiction than drama What went down during the penultimate face-to-fa…
A Midsummer Night's Dream was due to run for five weeks at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre has cancelled the entire run of a production of A Midsummer Night's Drea…
Ian McKellen plays a theatre reviewer in the 1930s in the new film adapted from Anthony Quinn's novel Curtain Call " but how accurate is it? Warning: this article contains spoilers for The C…
American ballerina who defied the odds of her early childhood in wartorn Sierra Leone to perform with top dance companies This was the making of a ballerina. "When I was four years old, a ma…
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger's 1967 raid and trial caused a national storm, seeming to pitch old against young, Establishment against counterculture. But was the real story overlooked? We …
Hampstead theatre, LondonCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin faced constant sexism and professional exclusion, but Stella Feehily's play shows a woman with an iron will to succeed Cecilia Payne-Gaposch…