Open letter signed by top playwrights, actors and directors demands Israel free members of Freedom theatre Israel-Gaza war " live updates Some of Britain's most heralded playwrights, actors …
Helen Hayes Theater, New York The star is astonishing in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's funny yet moving Broadway debut about a complicated family reunion If you grew up with it, there's something…
Alan Parker and Alan Clarke, whom I worked with in the 1970s, did not just "stop by" at Anna Scher's unique workshops. Together with many other enlightened directors and producers, they knew…
She upstaged Croatian punks in Liverpool, said farewell to Ted Lasso " and had her own spectacular festive special. The star talks first love, fear and finding mega fame in her 40s When she …
The organisation's incoming artistic director shares plans to tour a 'massive immersive experience' to empty spaces across the country It might not have dominated the headlines quite like In…
Indigo at the O2, LondonAlex Horne's musical comedy band serve up peachy and puerile puns in an endearing, occasionally festive show The Horne Section. A Christmas show. You can see the logi…
The comedian has turned her traumatic experiences into an Edinburgh comedy awards-nominated show " with a little help from a Thai boxing retreat and a botched haircut I'm with the comedian A…
The National Theatre's new artistic director must ensure that it engages with the regions, writes Ian Wood Arifa Akbar writes of the National Theatre, in her article about the appointment of…
The Place, LondonThough often more associated with abstract contemporary dance, Scottish Dance Theatre prove more than adept at bringing tales of daring on the high seas to a younger audienc…
For years, Ginger Johnson imagined life as a tragedy playing out " until she decided to reframe it as a comedy There was a hula-hooper, a juggler, a mime and a comic on our 2015 Christmas ca…
For the price, and £13,795 a year towards the venue's upkeep, the owners will be able to attend events for the next 843 years If you're looking for a last-minute Christmas present and hav…
Curve, Leicester; Sherman theatre, CardiffThe action feels distanced in Nikolai Foster's coolly striking new production of the Lloyd Webber-Rice musical, while turmoil stalks the Darling hou…
The Lucky Chance, Frome; Almeida; Soho theatre, LondonThere's a puppet but no happy ending at Emma Rice's fine new Somerset venue; Elvis Costello soundtracks a postwar Polish love story; and…
9 May 1936 " 15 June 2023The politician recalls the actor and fellow Labour MP, a passionate campaigner for social justice who never exploited fame to advance her career Julian Sands rememb…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBourne's sharp, tender dance production of the boy with scissor hands " a symbol for outsiders everywhere " feels more vital than ever Christmas wouldn't be Christmas w…
The staging is imaginative and expressive, and the audience is immersed in the action by hearing everything through headphones This is the second starry adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish …
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The incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity In 1978, Juli…
Dance House, CardiffLea Anderson's show for children, staged by National Dance Company Wales, presents the story of evolution as an absurdist cabaret First, a word from the audience (of prim…
Phoenix theatre, LondonThis origin story has all the dark mystery of the Duffer Brothers' Netflix series and delivers one coup de theatre after another It starts with those floating red lett…
Theatre Royal, GlasgowAudiences won't know until they arrive if their Cinders is male or female in Scottish Ballet's charmingly tweaked version This festive offering from Scottish Ballet com…
Sadler's Wells, LondonTim Burton's film is a natural fit for Bourne's choreography and a bright young cast bring its bittersweet tale to fresh life Matthew Bourne is a canny operator when it…
Riverside Studios, LondonDavid Ireland's explosive satire turns into farce as two buffoons parading as progressives team up with a dramatist played by Louisa Harland Two white men in show bu…
Traverse, EdinburghRobbie Gordon and Jack Nurse's tale follows a team of Scots women's footballers, but its most powerful scenes move well beyond the game There is plenty of talent on the fi…
Hampstead theatre, LondonStoppard's 2006 play asks important ideological questions with typically fizzing wordplay but its growling, feral energy comes too late Tom Stoppard has spoken of th…