Home, ManchesterIn Eve Steele's affecting comedy, mental health is explored through Jennifer Jackson's inspired movement direction Playwrights are naturally drawn to the brain and heart. Rar…
Soho theatre, LondonThe Irish comedian refines gossip to a high art in a big-hitting show packed with whipsmart jokes about the panic of settling down in your 30s The dates on Catherine Boha…
Stage and screen actors will take on the roles of Othello and Iago in Shakespeare's tragedy, first Broadway staging since 1982 Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to star in a new …
Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday Sean Holmes, director, The Sea (2000…
Olivier theatre, LondonSheen stars as Aneurin Bevan in Tim Price's drama, unfolding in flashbacks from a hospital bed This life story begins at the end, with Aneurin "Nye" Bevan in a hospita…
From the archive: In this piece first published on 28 June 1995, the late playwright asks if Shakespeare was a Tory and suggests writers should run a stage at the National Theatre Edward Bon…
Up to 600 council jobs to be lost, arts grants scrapped, libraries closed and bin collections reduced to fortnightly Councillors in Birmingham have approved what are thought to be the bigges…
New Wolsey theatre, IpswichWith its irresistible harmonies, this comedy about a blood-guzzling plant has plenty to savour but it lacks satirical punch and menace 'Feed me, Seymour!" Alan Men…
One minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix's Regency hit. And now she's blazing into the West End. But that's not nearly enough for this unstoppable star…
One of the most important British dramatists of the 20th century who was unafraid of taking on the establishment over censorship The battle to remove censorship from the British stage was fo…
One minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix's Regency hit. And now she's blazing into the West End. But that's not nearly enough for this unstoppable star…
Death announced of writer whose searing and controversial plays included Saved and Early Morning Michael Billington on Edward Bond: a phenomenal talent who upturned theatre Edward Bond, the…
One of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century, Bond " who has died aged 89 " confronted audiences with 'the crisis in the human species' Edward Bond, who has died aged 89, was a phenome…
Audiences are finding sharp resonance and emotional comfort in Patrik Lazić's moving and funny play Our Son, about topics still sensitive in the Balkans The hurling of a salad bowl to th…
The acclaimed dancer, director and choreographer takes on ballet's favourite frosty Christmas show, with his Cuba-based company Acosta Danza "I want to make it snow in Havana," said Cuban ba…
Acclaimed British movie starring Morfydd Clark will be adapted for Live theatre in Newcastle by Jessica Andrews, with music by Gazelle Twin The British horror film Saint Maud is to be adapte…
No one is banned from these shows " and for Slave Play's run on the West End, they take up only two nights out of almost 100 Downing Street made a surprise announcement last week. No, not th…
US actor will appear in Mark Rosenblatt's drama Giant, directed by Nicholas Hytner, in first season of new artistic director David Byrne His bestselling children's books are regularly turned…
Growing up, Rosy Carrick was fascinated by Schwarzenegger, Lundgren and other shredded 80s screen stars. Now she is exploring what they helped her realise about her sex life Is there a gap b…
The future will be bleak for drama if the young and the low-paid are excluded When it comes to the cost of entertainment, there is a resigned acceptance that the only way is up. This reality…
Australian comedian hopes returning to the stage will help them reconnect with the immediacy of standup Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Hannah Gadsby would like to set one thing …
The Place, LondonHumans keep making the same mistakes as five survivors of an apocalyptic event try to build a new civilisation How to Build a Universe is a high-concept show. Imagine you we…
London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist's surreal imagination " are solo shows the most successful? Dickens and…
Royal Shakespeare Company steps into dispute at Guildhall drama school after senior teacher quits in protest over methods "O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated …
More than 500 years after his death, the monarch most reviled by Shakespeare is still courting controversy " over whether non-disabled actors should ever be cast in the role, and with a new …