The actor looks back over a four-decade career balancing 'serious' drama and improv comedy, describes the making of her wholly improvised new film, and explains why we don't see her on TV so…
The vaudeville comedian shares what makes her laugh, including a naughty dog, Dame Barbara Cartland slamming Jackie Collins and a completely serious Maggie Gyllenhaal video Get our weekend c…
The Yard theatre, LondonMarikiscrycrycry opens this year's Now festival with an occasionally baffling trip through sex, fear and fantasies Established in 2014, the Yard theatre's Now festiva…
Olivier theatre, LondonThere are superb performances from a cast including Siobhán McSweeney and Ardal O'Hanlon in Josie Rourke's production Brian Friel's semi-autobiographical play, set …
Frontlinedance works in communities to remove barriers for disabled people and those with long-term health conditions " and there's no distinction between teacher and learner Several adults …
Doing standup is about sharing the contradictory mess of being human " and exposing the hypocrisy of politics Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi is a comedian and performer I've always been enraged by t…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonDepicting a brave group who took a stand against selling South African goods in 1984, this spirited show raises the question of why the Dunnes Stores strike isn't …
From a literal knockout student production to inspiration from arachnids and a skull with an extraordinary backstory, the veteran director lifts the curtain on his career Romeo and Juliet, 1…
Her military painting was such a sensation that it was bought by Queen Victoria. A new play explores Elizabeth Southerden Thompson's trailblazing art, her privilege " and the prejudice she f…
First Dog has to 'suffer the agonies' of adapting his book The Carbon Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable Enviroteens into a play. He and the cast talk about making climate change fun Ge…
Lizzie Annis wins best newcomer and Arthur Hughes wins best Shakesperean performance as actors with disabilities take two prizes Patsy Ferran has been named best actress at the Critics' Cir…
Actor, archivist of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, and director, with a long career in theatre, film and televisionThe actor and director Murray Melvin, who has died aged 90, had a rich …
Play highlights racial health inequalities in diagnosis, representation and care Black women's experiences with breast cancer will be put under the spotlight this month, in a play looking at…
Available onlineThe daughter of an addict and a young man trapped in the drugs trade meet in an unsentimental tale that blends tenderness and tragedy Two teenagers meet on a bombed-out sofa …
The comedian on online trolls, her worst gig and breaking into the comedy industry from a working-class background How did you get into comedy and cabaret?I used to work behind the bar at th…
The book Impro by Keith Johnstone made a great impression on me as a history teacher in a Hull comprehensive school in the 1980s. The opening chapter was the best description of fostering cr…
From fights at the Bodyguard musical to wild drunken antics at comedy clubs and even heckling at the opera, performers and theatre staff say crowds are getting out of hand. What's going on?…
The playwright's evocative series of essays profiles some of the brightest figures he's met in his life, from Alan Bennett and Bamber Gascoigne to childhood friends and first loves There is …
Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions The BBC and the National Theatre are facing rising hostility over two high-profile production…
Old Vic, BristolPlayful yet plaintive, this six-person show condemns the indignities suffered by two vulnerable elderly people navigating our inadequate system It seems like a particularly a…
The longest-running production in Germany, restaged for a new generation of theatregoers, is a curious mixture of 80s nostalgia and politics … with great tunes The four men dressed in wido…
Royal Lyceum theatre, Edinburgh, and touringOlder, American and previously divorced, Frances Stevenson frames the National Theatre of Scotland's pantomime-inspired recasting of the novelist'…
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Orange Tree; Finborough, LondonShakespeare's wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti's pivotal adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, while urgent …
The comedian has strong opinions on prawns and eggs, has difficulties with bananas but otherwise he's … voracious I know now not to eat before a standup gig or TV show. Your brain's not wo…
Melvin's roles included parts in Torchwood, The Phantom of the Opera and A Taste of Honey Tributes have been paid to the actor, director and theatre archivist Murray Melvin, who has died age…