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Regent's Park Open Air theatre, London Owen Horsley's frolicking staging has jaunty music and mischief, but this production dances over sadness
Tonight belongs to the lovers, but not the on…
Nottingham PlayhouseA teenager kills a trainee paramedic with a single strike on a night out in Nottingham in this deftly directed play based on a real story
Take note: this is not a play ab…
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonA mix of songs, dance, glitter and camp, this ancient-modern mashup is derailed by bland debates and a convoluted script
An ancient Greek love story, this…
Marylebone theatre, LondonKiell Smith-Bynoe and Martha Howe-Douglas ably embody Gogol's schemers, but this show doesn't hit any 21st-century targets
You can see why, in 2024, one might reviv…
The Place, LondonThree performers have knockabout fun in choreographer Simone Mousset's well-crafted, supremely silly show
It's funny, this show. Maybe not from the off, when you're just won…
Comedian Julian Clary and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr met in 1985 on the same cabaret bill. Friends ever since, they have performed together and speak nightly on the phone, having helped ea…
Our new series on transformative theatrical discoveries begins with the surreal 1986 drama set on a street in Lancashire
I must have been about 14. Our English teacher had taken us to a libr…
Coliseum, LondonHayao Miyazaki's masterpiece is brought to life with imaginative puppetry, wondrous music and moments of delicate poetry
Food and cooking feature prominently in the films of …
Aviva Studios, ManchesterDance companies from Shanghai and Mumbai traverse a vast stage against a fast-moving backdrop in a personal story about identity and purpose
The vast populations of …
The 1975 tour documentary Big Banana Feet captures a comic growing into his extraordinary talents " and adjusting to unprecedented fame
In an age where our every selfie, photogenic breakfast…
The Oscar-winning actor will lead Ayad Akhtar's McNeal, playing a writer with 'an unhealthy fascination with artificial intelligence'
Robert Downey Jr is set to make his Broadway debut in a …
They are comedy sparring partners from Green Wing. Can the duo play stricken lovers in The Deep Blue Sea, the eviscerating play Rattigan poured his own heartbreak into? Warning: contains spo…
A world premiere presented by Factory International, The Accountants combines one tale of two auditing firms with another of friends who have connected British Indian and British Chinese her…
Each time she takes the stage, the Korean choreographer and dancer asks if it will be the last time. She reflects on crushing stereotypes, breaking into theatre and her 100 failed auditions …
Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024
Adrian Dunbar is to curate a festival in Liverpool dedicated to the …
Exclusive: Audience had 'vitriolic reaction' to European tone of musical, forced to close early
Rufus Wainwright has defended his musical Opening Night, which was forced to close early after…
7 May 1964: Orton's first play is a 'milk-curdling essay in lower-middle-class nihilism'
Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane, at the New Arts Theatre Club, opened last night with forced move…
On stage and screen, self-referential works such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequality
Officers s…
Colchester Arts CentreThe comedian's rightwing alter egos have not yet evolved beyond the two-dimensional in this droll but conventional set
It's lovely to be here in Colchester, says Rosie …
Royal Court, LondonFour south London girls tell stories during detention at a mosque in Sabrina Ali's play, which ends before we know much about them
Four British Somali girls are thrown tog…
Globe theatre, LondonThere's no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes' production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing music
The Globe so often comes un…
The actor on catching the theatre bug playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret, being a football fan, and dealing with a fire that destroyed her home in LA
London-born Cara Delevingne, 31, began mode…
TV head hopes programme will spark 'a #MeToo moment for men' ahead of two-part show on the Oscar-winning actor
One of the producers of a Channel 4 documentary that contains fresh claims that…
York St John University, YorkFootsbarn Travelling Theatre's Twelfth Night and a Turkish Macbeth rubbed shoulders with manga, memoir and a Ukrainian scratch show at this boundary-defying fest…
Swan; Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonA new era at the RSC opens with a potent staging by Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi of his classic everyman tale and a clever take on Shakesp…
