The award-winning lyricist, known for his longtime partnership with composer Jerry Bock, died of natural causes The Tony and Grammy award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who with composer …
Trojans ★★★★☆ / Freefalling ★★★★☆ / This is You ★★★☆☆Cork city, various venuesVirgil's The Aeneid, a…
Shaftesbury theatre, LondonThe cast do their exuberant best but this bland, by-the-numbers retread of the 1990s film lacks feeling and adds nothing original beyond a reference to Love Island…
The Succession star will take over role from actor Eryn Jean Norvill in The Picture of Dorian Gray, which toured Australia to sell-out audiences Succession star Sarah Snook will headline the…
At this year's Manchester International Festival, the former United midfielder is teaming up with art stars Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tino Sehgal for a new work. Sport and performance art, it s…
Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig will open during Hanukah in December at culture centre JW3 The corny gags, slapstick, cartoon baddies and singalongs beloved of traditional pantomime will…
Minerva, ChichesterRakie Ayola is superb in a story about the exploitation of a Black female playwright by the great and the greedy of London's theatreland It's quite a title. Adrienne Kenn…
Duke of York's, London In this revival of Martin McDonagh's play about child mutilation, tyranny and freedom of expression, the twists and turns between comic and macabre sadly do not come o…
Old Fire Station, Oxford The Drag Race Down Under judge plays an amused, sometimes confused, observer of social foibles through an arch anthropological lens I'm all for standup that feels ah…
Theatre Royal BathDespite charismatic performances and real chemistry, the classic Audrey Hepburn romcom falters in its transition into a Cole Porter jukebox musical Jeremy Sams' production …
National Theatre, LondonIt's a game of two halves, but Jason Graham's dramatisation of Southgate rescuing a languishing England team delivers tension and movement James Graham's story of th…
After Rufus Norris's departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse's next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates Rufus Norris's announ…
He's a West End fixture who's already been compared to Fred Astaire. As he prepares to hop from Mary Poppins to the Gershwin musical Crazy for You, Stemp talks rowdy audiences, ice baths, an…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThe songs may not compare to the 1949 film's zither music, but the design amplifies Trevor Nunn's elegantly shadowy production It takes courage to adapt a cl…
Lyric Hammersmith theatre, LondonJocelyn Bioh's bitingly funny and sometimes heartbreaking play transposes relatable high-school movie tropes to 1980s Ghana to explore beauty standards and c…
Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember her desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament I thought I had seen Glen…
The revered actor, passionate activist and I Ching devotee fields queries on self-doubt, levelling up the arts, and turning loss into beauty from admirers including Greta Thunberg, Eddie Red…
Diligent scholarship meets provocation and irreverence in Elizabeth Winkler's highly entertaining quest to uncover the 'real' Shakespeare In 2019, Elizabeth Winkler, a young writer at the Wa…
Almeida; Donmar Warehouse; Old Vic, London Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall's tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn't be m…
Royal Opera House, London Wayne McGregor's incisive new ballet conjures the very brushstrokes of the late Carmen Herrera; Bernstein meets Les Sylphides in a muscular Christopher Wheeldon rev…
Brighton CentreIn Settling Down, the standup promises more mature work to match his imminent parenthood but the material remains superficial A new comedian struggles to be born in Jack White…
Gielgud theatre, LondonHarnessing horror film conventions, Lyndsey Turner's intelligent revival conjures places where truth is a political inconvenience Seventy years after its premiere, Art…
The Parks and Rec star and voice of Sonic tells us about taking the audience-powered Ben Schwartz & Friends to London, and his ideal improv partner Don't get the Guide delivered to your …
Our series on regional dance scenes continues in the Scottish city where a close-knit group of artists with a DIY spirit have found a willing audience open to cutting-edge work Saturday nigh…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonElena Takahashi's finely tuned grace is framed by visual and design flair in Christopher Wheeldon's conventional show in-the-round Fairytale ballets are great for ge…