He's the anarchic comedian behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day. He talks about dashed Hollywood hopes, the dangers of modernising Roald Dahl and feeling out of step with his progre…
Barbican, LondonThe star narrates an innovative, pedal-powered production that muses on the climate crisis but the wide range of topics limits the storytelling As a concept, Katie Mitchell's…
Want to survive in the arts? Get a side hustle. We speak to an award-winning poet and governance manager, a gigging guitarist and teacher " and a successful comic who doubles as an immigrati…
The play, which the actor has described as being pertinent to our 'savage and judgmental' political climate, will run for 50 performances in the West End before transferring to the US Kennet…
At 88, I often get ignored when I first walk into comedy clubs. People assume I'm in the wrong place and are shocked to find out I'm on the bill I was 68 when I first stepped on stage as a s…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryCorey Campbell's impressionistic production can lose focus but it benefits from engaging performances We never get to see Vivienne Mavis Taylor in this devised prod…
City gets ready for 'world's first heavy metal dance experience' celebrating the music of Ozzy and co "This is definitely the first time I've asked dancers to pirouette and headbang in the s…
The playwright's one-woman legal drama has gone from Australia to the West End and now Broadway. She talks about juggling law and theatre, and longing for home Get our weekend culture and li…
Kiln theatre, LondonRyan Calais Cameron's terrific three-hander dramatises a meeting in 1955 Hollywood, mapping the dilemmas that actors of colour still face Two white men are having a frank…
Park theatre, LondonDavid has cerebral palsy and is determined to lose his virginity using Grindr in Jon Bradfield's entertaining play Any Grindr user faces a barrage of questions. Top or bo…
The production, directed by Simon Godwin, will open in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London and Washington DC Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are to star in a new site-specific produ…
Royal Court, LiverpoolAn inspired parody of coming-out dramas meets a deliciously daft plot involving Sonia in Jonathan Harvey's comedy Who would have thought Jonathan Harvey would write a s…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonBirmingham company's offshoot ranges from classical showpieces to modern shorts, allowing its dancers to tackle roles usually kept for principals A new balle…
After 30 years, the standup star is now finally winning acting plaudits, for a 'tour de force' take on Dickens with sharper punchlines " and Hamlet is next First names first. What does the a…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonWhile there is compassion and curiosity in Timberlake Wertenbaker's adaptation, this production lacks the whirlwind quality of Roché's novel and the film She ha…
Dorfman theatre, LondonWhen Mary returns home from prison, there is both humour and horror in store, as Deborah Bruce's play explores a cycle of abuse The set reveals a house sliced apart so…
The controversial standup brings big cartoonish energy to his first tour since 2018, delivering a set of self-mockery and dismay at bizarre behaviour Kevin Hart is back in the UK on his firs…
New artistic director Nancy Medina picks works about the power of belonging such as a queer coming-of-age story from Tarell Alvin McCraney and a musical version of David Nicholls' Starter fo…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeShould we sympathise with Hayley Carmichael's irascible radio soap star as she risks being axed, or condemn her as she bullies her young vulnerable young…
Our new series on regional dance scenes begins in Northumberland, where a studio-cum-boxing club is inspiring novice performers The road to the coast is bordered with fenced-off industrial l…
As the RSC's artistic director steps down after an illustrious and radical 35 years and 50 shows, he talks about the productions he's most proud of, his new memoir, and the loss of his husba…
Stephen Sondheim's darkly funny quasi-opera has been remounted as one of the year's biggest new productions If you seek Broadway's equivalent of Mount Rushmore, you could do worse than head …
Alvin Ailey's American Dance Theater and Budapest Festival Orchestra among performers named in lineup This year's Edinburgh international festival will focus on themes of hope, community and…
Agent says Goodman, who was a judge on the show from 2004 until 2016, died peacefully The former Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman has died, aged 78, his agent has said. He became a ju…
A new revival of The Circle is a reminder of a dramatist who smuggled vital messages into broad crowdpleasers Never trust what dramatists say about themselves. Noël Coward spent decades d…