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My Neighbour Totoro leads the way with nine nominations at this year's awards " see who else is in the running
Noël Coward award for best entertainment or comedy playJack and the Beanstal…
Comedian broke down in tears live on air as he told listeners his friend was involved in serious road accident
Frank Skinner told listeners to his Saturday radio show that his friend and for…
Hannah Waddingham hosts the prestigious annual awards event. Plus: John Simm's last case in Grace. Here's what to watch this evening Continue reading...
Cambridge JunctionThe Londoner is argumentative, entertaining and full of bracing good sense as he catalogues his personal experiences of racism
"What's your favourite racism?" With this que…
Bristol Old Vic; and touringCrafted from true stories, this circus-set play from Extraordinary Bodies is moving and thought-provoking
The setting is Germany, 1933. In the streets, Nazis are …
Royal Opera House, LondonMarianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov and company shine " as do their costumes " in the Royal Ballet's over-the-top new design of this intricate work
First the good n…
The actor on sparring with Stephen Mangan in a new Private Lives, why she didn't want to be a Bond girl, and what she learned from pulling pints
Since scandalising BBC viewers more than 20 y…
O'Farrell's novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss exploring class, place and creativity for a play that …
Barbican; Lyric Hammersmith; Southwark Playhouse, LondonComplicité's masterly take on Olga Tokarczuk's eco-thriller is unforgettable; Daniel Rigby excels in Fo's all too timely classic; and…
The actor, producer and singer on sleeping in, surviving breast cancer and saying the wrong thing to a makeup artist
Born in California, Rita Wilson, 66, starred in The Brady Bunch TV show a…
Maxine Peake and Christopher Eccleston among performers as venue put on final show after losing Arts Council funding
In the end, if indeed it is the end (many on stage would have you believe…
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes a Big Night of Musicals, You Bury Me and James Earl Jones in King Lear
Game of Thrones stars Emilia Clarke and Indira Varma reunited for Jamie …
Watford Palace theatreA cockney fox and a preening jackdaw open our eyes to the wonders of nature in this charming show based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris's book
In this new musica…
Venue that helped launch careers of many actors forced to close after losing £1.8m Arts Council England grant
One of Britain's oldest theatres, the Oldham Coliseum, will close "on its own…
Incident at Peacock theatre in London comes amid growing concerns about antisocial audience behaviour
A performance of the musical Bat Out of Hell in London's West End was halted for several…
Home, ManchesterWriter-director Yusra Warsama relocates The House of Bernarda Alba from AndalucÃa to Manchester
What imprisons the characters of Federico GarcÃa Lorca's The House of Be…
Adaptations of existing media get new fans in the building, but they also rob new plays of space
Pay attention to the posters lining the walls of Tube stations, and at least half of the stag…
Friendly and fiery, compassionate and uncompromising, O'Grady and his alter ego Lily Savage made friends wherever they went. Readers remember the groundbreaking, down-to-earth comedian
When …
Pioneer of stage improvisation who freed drama from scripts in London and built on this approach in CanadaIn 1967 Keith Johnstone, who has died aged 90, formed an improvisation troupe, Theat…
The Hammersmith arts centre, which faces soaring energy bills and debt from its redevelopment, said it has struggled to rebuild revenue streams after the pandemic
London's Riverside Studios …
Theatre director best known for his three major productions of Death of a Salesman, written by his hero Arthur MillerAs the elder son of a Texan oil millionaire, a graduate of Oberlin Colleg…
Southwark Playhouse Elephant, LondonIt's a nice idea but this disconnected show about the former Italian PM makes some bizarre choices and lacks satirical bite
This satire about Italy's form…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterModern-day version casts Tennessee Williams's steamy melodrama in a new light, with a focus on the corruptibility of wealth
Roy Alexander Weise does not overtly cha…
Pleasance theatre, LondonA doctor himself, the standup delivers breezy tales along with on-the-nose points on how black medics are viewed
All standups operating in the space between medicine…
Uplifting documentary allows its funny, flawed and likable subject to tell the poignant story of how she came to realise who she was
In 2016, the comedian Julia Scotti auditioned for America…
