Theatre503, LondonOlga Braga's award-winning play captures the suffocating tensions of a household as war looms " finding flashes of tenderness amid the rising threat Olga Braga's stark new …
Sadler's Wells, LondonTanztheater Wuppertal's dancers treat the audience like lovers in an entrancing show of seductive elegance Pina Bausch had a pair of secret weapons in Matthias Burkert …
The Complicité founder remembers his teacher's wicked laughter, provocative demands and infinite generosity ' Philippe Gaulier dies aged 82 Many speak of a teacher in their childhood who ch…
Hull TruckIn a stark modern staging, Mark Babych frames the tragedy as a story of ordinary lives spiralling into catastrophe For a play that ends so bloodily, Macbeth starts like an improvis…
The Corn Exchange, NewburyThere are quirky, characterful dances, bodies melting together and understated charisma in this story of a famed 1920s lesbian club Le Monocle was a famed lesbian c…
Linbury theatre, LondonGlen Tetley's landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg's atonal score, is stark, strange and psychologically charged Sometimes the revival of an old work can make it, a…
Actor's comments came as she accepted a lifetime achievement award for women in the arts Kristin Scott Thomas has accused male theatre critics of failing to understand plays written by women…
Dorfman theatre, LondonA financier facing corruption charges is reunited with his son in this high-concept mishmash of screwball comedy and financial thriller The National Theatre is certain…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonJerome Kilty's fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell When Jerome Kilty was …
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis music-laced adaptation of Flora Thompson's novels is a coming-of-age story that finds quiet beauty in a world on the brink of change Flora Thompson's autobiogr…
Cast, DoncasterThrough the eyes of two working-class teenagers, a legendary 90s Doncaster nightclub is brought back to life in Danielle Phillips's sparky but quietly perceptive play If you w…
The master clown helped generations of performers be more alive in the moment " and not take themselves too seriously. His teachings were for life as well as the stage ' Philippe Gaulier, cl…
Teacher who ran school outside Paris was a formative influence on generations of comedians and actors including Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson Master clown Philippe Gaulier, the infl…
Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on " as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed When people praised Tony Jay and me for Yes Minister's prescience, we ac…
Judges, including Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, praise Georgina Duncan's play as the kind 'producers dream of and audiences yearn to watch' A work that explores what happens when…
Cast, DoncasterA visually arresting adaptation trades Martian menace for Enoch Powell-era paranoia " technically dazzling, politically pointed, yet also confusing 'National emergency to repe…
Shadowy urban terror gives way to airborne exuberance as the festival celebrates its 20th edition with a programme that disturbs and delights Suited dancers swing around a streetlight in Spa…
York Theatre RoyalIn Catherine Dyson's absorbing play, the audience become a class of year 9 pupils visiting a Holocaust exhibition with an emotional support animal Can we ever truly learn f…
Union to appeal after losing case against historic talent index in battle that could reshape UK acting landscape For almost a century it has been the casting directors' bible, a shopfront fo…
The former Bond girl talks about her new role as a top writer accused of stealing a story as her actor husband is cancelled " and why she has no regrets about her time aboard the 007 rollerc…
Black Panther made him a megastar, but in private the actor and his wife Simone Ledward Boseman were dealing with his terminal cancer diagnosis. In a rare interview, she talks about the shoc…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonRichard Eyre's adaptation brings comedy and tenderness alongside Strindberg's original savagery August Strindberg's portrait of marriage is unremittingly bleak in …
The Coronet theatre, LondonJapanese company Chiten abandon naturalism for rhythmic dialogue and highly stylised movements " but there is much invention to admire Dostoevsky wrote his 1866 no…
New Diorama theatre, LondonJames Nash's doomscrolling play unpacks social media and the violence it hosts We piece together fragments. Distorted voice notes, the depths of the comments secti…
My mother, Carol Lawrence, who has died aged 81, was a stage and costume designer at an exciting time in British theatre who pivoted to a successful second career at the BBC, finding her nic…