Exclusive: Jeremy O Harris says Game of Thrones star will not 'make it the Jon Snow Experience' The writer of Slave Play, the controversial Broadway production about race and sexuality that …
Brighton DomeThe comedian guides us through this life-and-death tale of seizure, diagnosis and treatment with his usual brand of self-deprecation We have all seen comedians die on stage. Is …
Finborough theatre, LondonAn NHS worker's marriage to her anti-vaxxer husband comes under pressure in James McDermott's two-hander James McDermott's new play takes us back to the Covid-19 lo…
Thirty years after his death, the Texan who set out to 'topple idols' remains an outlaw truth-teller for many but his raging material can land with a clunk I could mark out my comedy critic'…
Bush theatre, LondonBenedict Lombe questions ideas around abuse, grief and the Black body in this meet-again-cute starring Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong Would you want to revisit your firs…
Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold Although once bracketed with Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker, his fellow East End of Lond…
Soho theatre, LondonThe fringe award-winner compares her romantic relationship to how she feels about her audience in this mildly evasive investigation of inner knottiness There's a formula …
Royal Exchange, ManchesterInspired by Cornelia Parker famous artwork, and tracking three couples across three decades, Phoebe Eclair-Powell's play is a clever concept that never catches fire…
Duke of York's; Almeida; Hampstead, LondonMatt Smith heads a rousing adaptation of Ibsen for a bruised world; Danny Sapani and co lean into the storm in Yaël Farber's liberating Lear. Plu…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet revisits the choreographer's timeless rags-to-riches work, putting assorted casts through its finely tuned emotional wringer In 2011, at the age of …
Napalm Death, visual artist Pogus Caesar and Peaky Blinders' Steven Knight also among city's cultural figures warning over 'horrifying' move Birmingham's cultural figures from Carlos Acosta …
As a decade of assaults on local democracy takes its toll, it is more important than ever to keep faith with the value of culture How do you put a value on culture? In this age of austerity,…
Composer and lyricist who was a long-time collaborator of Steve Coogan and Harry Hill, and co-created the award-winning musical Spend, Spend, Spend The composer and lyricist Steve Brown, who…
Gulbenkian Arts Centre, CanterburyTalented students from Canterbury College impress in Zest Theatre's show, developed through conversations with hundreds of young people In Katie Kirby's bri…
Once known as 'Egypt's Jon Stewart', Youssef doesn't want to be defined as an activist " but he will take risks and go with his gut When the comedian Bassem Youssef arrives on stage for a so…
Ahead of a London show, the choreographer talks about his new Sufjan Stevens musical, community in dance, and how election results can affect his moves When Justin Peck was a teenage ballet …
Hampstead theatre, LondonNeil D'Souza's sharp script is packed with regret and affection as old bandmates get together to relive the glory days on holiday Grab the beer and sunglasses and ge…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonThis feted battle of the sexes comedy follows defiantly upbeat Caribbean characters making a life in postwar Britain This irrepressible ska musical, trans…
Exclusive: John Shakespeare's muckhill fine in 1552 was a waste disposal toll rather than a punishment, researcher says The earliest record of William Shakespeare's father in Stratford-upon-…
Leeds PlayhouseBelonging: Loss. Legacy. Love brings together work by Phoenix's new boss Marcus Jarrell Willis, Miguel Altunaga and Dane Hurst Formed in 1981, Phoenix Dance Theatre have had m…
Team behind Little Amal puppet hope to create 'visceral engagement' with issues caused by climate emergency The production team behind the Little Amal puppet, which raised awareness about th…
Good plays have the power to shake us out of our complacency. This recurring debate is a pointless skirmish in a culture war CONTENT WARNING: This column may include opinions with which you …
Thoughtifier, a new European tour, brings familiar whimsy from the Strictly Come Dancing champ. But does the mirth cramp his musical stylings? Forty years into his performing career, you kno…
Park theatre, LondonA rich and messy revival explores ideas of belonging, with the Desperate Housewives star playing a determinedly indifferent matriarch Chaos reigns. Every inch of Paige's …
Theatre director who took Beyond the Fringe to the West End and worked on hit productions throughout the 1960s and 70s In early 1961, four young men " a doctor, a history lecturer, a jazz pi…