Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical is set for its final performance in New York, leaving behind an intense fanbase He is used to having the worst seat in the house. Playing trumpet in the orc…
Barbican, LondonCheek By Jowl's Spanish-language version of the surreal 1635 classic fuses dreamlike garishness with bizarre slapstick Pedro Calderón de la Barca's 1635 verse play interro…
The Stables, Milton KeynesThe man who shamed Trump and Blatter turns his gaze inward for an evening of self-reflective standup "Anonymous prankster" is what the media calls Simon Brodkin, a …
Donmar Warehouse, LondonStephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling bare their teeth in a show that dials up the violence and sometimes struggles to navigate the humour Love is a tempestuous, abusiv…
Arcola, LondonWhat starts as a comedy of sibling manners ends in a soap opera-like recital of childhood abuses and family grievances The question of what we inherit from our parents has been…
American Airlines Theatre, New York James Ijames's electrifying take on Shakespeare's classic, with a Black queer man at its centre, makes for a smart update James Ijames's Fat Ham dances on…
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonLolita Chakrabarti's staging of Maggie O'Farrell's moving novel about the death of the playwright's son " and his resurrection in Hamlet " is powerfully play…
The actor, who is preparing to play Elizabeth Taylor in The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre, said the condition made rehearsals difficult Tuppence Middleton has spoken about the d…
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe comedian is at her best when she treats us as her confidantes rather than aiming for well-worn targets On one day in 2021 two major life events " one terr…
Two years after the French funkmeisters unplugged, the electro legend is releasing his first new material " a ballet score. He explains why working with 'real live humans' was scary On 1 Jan…
Liverpool PlayhouseThe actor and director pitches the antihero as a racial outsider. She is compelling, but he is an inconsistent character in a production leached of intrigue This productio…
John Lyly's long-forgotten Galatea " featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex " is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it Wickedly…
Production is at centre of collaboration with west London community affected by 2017 disaster The National Theatre is to stage a verbatim play based on accounts by survivors and those bereav…
In today's newsletter: With reported attacks on ushers and police called to handle overzealous audience participation, some argue the sanctity of the stage is under threat Sign up here for o…
On Good Friday, police were called to a performance of The Bodyguard " and there have been numerous other examples of audiences behaving badly. With crowds heckling, screaming, livestreaming…
The Time Traveler's Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage Female readers are the acknowledged force behind the market in published …
Petit Palais show celebrates breadth of belle epoque theatre star's creative talents with 400 exhibits On page 158 of a heavy, leather-bound Paris police register from the 19th century, a ha…
Despite losses caused by funding cuts, a diverse range of vibrant work is pulling in new audiences Hayao Miyazaki's glorious animation My Neighbour Totoro reimagined for the stage; a Tenness…
Since Covid, the actor has been fighting for a legal change, determined no one should have to die alone. She discusses Partygate, rule-breaking " and getting drunk with King Charles One day …
Traverse, Edinburgh Calum L Macleòid's western-style drama pits a gunslinging Elspeth Turner against a notorious fugitive in a peculiarly Scottish corner of Canada On the back wall of Bec…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterA mainly black cast and modern setting inject this new production with a dose of symbolic power Two sides of a family battle over land in Tennessee Williams's 1955 …
Guildhall, DerryThis musical drama about the lives of Northern Ireland peacemakers gives a familiar story a new dimension Beyond Belief, written by Damian Gorman and composed by Brian O'Dohe…
Harold Pinter; Hampstead, LondonJames Norton elevates Ivo van Hove's knotty adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara's bestseller. And to the sea as Cordelia Lynn's breezy new play sets a family adrif…
The Place, LondonDisplaying remarkable unison, the company's super-agile dancers celebrate its 40th anniversary in sparkling style A spool of tape falls to the floor of an empty stage; the l…
The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud's struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths I have s…