Soho theatre, LondonThe comic traces a path from Arizona to Manhattan with a musical set that never quite lands The comedian as self-fascinated ego-monster is quite the pose these days. Kate…
Young Vic, LondonGiles Terera is sublime as the guitar-wielding musician looking back on his tearaway years in this rowdy production You can't take your eyes off him. The script for this aut…
Michelle Terry plays the king as a playfully antic sociopath in a lively production full of effective performances Has there ever been a more contested Richard III? Michelle Terry's self-ca…
Playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas's adaptation of the novel will open at Leeds Playhouse and tour in 2025 Neil Gaiman's award-winning novella Coraline is to be turned into…
Artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe says much of the anger about a non-disabled actor playing the role has been misogynistic Michelle Terry, the artistic director of Shakespeare's Glob…
Fall, who currently runs Theatre Royal Stratford East, will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah in January The Young Vic, one of London's foremost theatres, has appointed Nadia Fall as its n…
Arcola, LondonThe acting from Ellena Vincent, Peter De Jersey and Daniel Francis-Swaby is riveting but this play gets tied down in gothic horror and psychodrama A tattered US flag hangs from…
When she first went moshing, Rachel Nà Bhraonáin couldn't stop giggling. Now she has made a dance show about the 'gorgeous community' she encountered Walking into a basement club in Ca…
A year after the singer's death, Katori Hall " whose musical is now also touring " says the show is like 'one last concert' for fans She is still celebrated as the queen of rock'n'roll but, …
Theatre Royal PlymouthDrew McOnie's version of the Oscar-winner is a visual treat, with expressive physical movement, lustrous dance routines " and an irrepressibly waggy puppet dog Lightnin…
The case of a German ballet director who attacked a critic with faeces has loosely inspired a satire about the relationships between creators and critics Among the spikier offerings at this …
Set for revival at the RSC, this perfectly structured revenge comedy has an earthy vitality that no aristo or scholar could have created I have a question for those theatrical luminaries (an…
Aviva Studios, ManchesterDaisy Johnson adapts a 1970 TV play into a poetic and disturbing exploration of childbirth's physical and emotional impact John Bowen's Robin Redbreast is one of tho…
Compelling actor who played Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones, following a notable stage career with the RSC and in the West End The actor Ian Gelder, who has died of cancer aged 74, was a …
Despite what we might have assumed, it wasn't all about the sex In 1968, the Observer met three witches, but thankfully it didn't end in murder, haunting and tragedy. Seventeen years since t…
It was the film about end of the silent era that scooped five Oscars, made $133m and beguiled the world. But can the movie work on stage? And how will its real star, a frisky parson russell …
The comedian on strange encounters with fans, performing to a room full of silence and the state of sketch comedy How did you get into comedy?I auditioned for Durham University's sketch grou…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonThe RSC's European premiere of Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer prize-winning play tailors its intriguing characters a little too neatly Daniel Evans and Tamara Ha…
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, LondonThe Revel Puck Circus big top rolls into town, featuring fantastic acrobatics, whimsical clowning and admirable ethics There's a festival feel at a Revel…
Birmingham Rep; Coliseum; Barbican; Soho theatre, LondonBruce Robinson's new adaptation of his cult film is too theatrical by half; the latest staged Studio Ghibli fantasy is more effects th…
Stone Nest, LondonJill Johnson's intricate new piece puts the audience in the midst of an exploration of interaction and connection There's something magical about watching dance at a distan…
Big-name ballet dancers and rising choreographers have found a new home in the superclub where the after-party goes on until 5am "It's the easiest rider we've ever done," says the Ministry o…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonThe second, strikingly physical part of Lanre Malaolu's trilogy that began with Samskara explores bereavement with lightness as well as anguish It is hard…
Trio of plays co-created by Roy Williams explores British identity in the era of Brexit, Covid and Black Lives Matter The co-creator of the Death of England series of plays has said the deca…
Company's artistic director David Hallberg says he was 'shocked' by critic's review and that critique of dancers' bodies is 'not acceptable' Sign up for our rundown of must-reads, pop cultur…