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While the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical continues in London, a new cast will simultaneously tour the UK beginning in Manchester in November
For more than five y…
James Graham's Dear England follows 'gentle revolution' implemented by men's football manager
A new play chronicling "the gentle revolution" led by England men's football manager, Gareth Sou…
The Merchant of Venice 1936 among four plays to feature at RSC's reopened Swan theatre this summer
A new take on Shakespeare's controversial play The Merchant of Venice, set in London's East…
Man Utd v Oldham Coliseum | Toilet dread | The con in consultant | Middle age | Clement Freud
How saddening to see that Oldham-born Sir Jim Ratcliffe seems able to find £5bn or so to buy …
A new exhibition lets us see the Yorkshire artist's greatest hits " and overlooked rarities " through new eyes. Photographer Justin Sutcliffe went behind the scenes
"I've always been interes…
The Spanish-Welsh comedian on cut-throat critics, dying on stage in the dark and why telling thousands of people to shut up was a career high
What drew you to standup comedy?In my family's b…
Royal and Derngate theatre, NorthamptonMichael Rosen's update of Oliver Twist gets the musical treatment in this high-energy show about a schoolgirl ensnared by a street gang
Charles Dickens…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe concept is promising, and it's acted with panache, yet Zinnie Harris's Shakespeare adaptation falls flat
An essay accompanying the programme of Zinnie Harris's lat…
Northern Stage, NewcastleThe family front room becomes a battleground in Anders Lustgarten's play of ideas about class, politics and compassion
At some point between the decline of British i…
Lyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, LondonJanet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone's electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince's suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley's paean …
The singer and musical star on her role as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in a hip-hop stage show, her contempt for the home secretary and her ambition to play Aretha Franklin
Beverley Knigh…
The east Londoner won a Bafta for her performance as the teenage lead in Sarah Gavron's hit 2019 film. Now, on the eve of three new stage and screen projects, she talks about her whirlwind f…
In the Bafta-winning Stath Lets Flats, Jamie Demetriou unleashed a trail of comedy carnage. Here, he talks to Alex Moshakis about body contortions, dealing with 'feeling thick' and finding i…
The director of Amy, who's never watched a ballet, has adapted a dystopian sci-fi piece by the choreographer, who's never made a film. They discuss art, myths, and why Bruce Lee connects the…
@sohoplace, LondonMedea is as much victim as villain in Dominic Cooke's psychologically subtle and subversive production, and Ben Daniels is superb playing all the puffed up men in her life…
Birmingham RepThe excellent puppeteers are the stars of this two-hour staging of the popular TV satire where Paddington plays an evil powerbroker but the punchlines are too often predictable…
The self-deprecating star has won two Edinburgh awards but remains a niche concern. Will a recent breakout turn on Taskmaster and a huge nationwide tour bring his absurdist comedy to the mai…
Gate theatre, LondonInventive direction and a spectacular cast make the London transfer of Robert O'Hara's kaleidoscopic off-Broadway play a spiralling, high-energy triumph
Robert O'Hara is …
Orange Tree theatre, LondonTara Fitzgerald plays the former violinist in a restaging of Tom Kempinski's play that pits patient against doctor in a furious battle of wills
Change one element …
Royal Court theatre, LondonAva Wong Davies's monologue takes us through the small, slow steps that lead her central character into peril
This slow but searing monologue begins as a girl-meet…
The Vaults, LondonPhoebe Batteson-Brown is archly comic as the clueless Perdita but it's the subplot about a queer teenager and the hypocrisy of politics that has real depth to it
This surpr…
Theatre says it will be forced to close after losing £1.8m Arts Council England subisdy
Former Coronation Street stars have described the closure of one of Britain's oldest theatres, the …
Old Vic, LondonHistorical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare
So many shows seem to want to…
Jermyn Street Theatre, LondonIn historian Orlando Figes' rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic's friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly
While researching hi…
Theatre operators and producers changing marketing strategy as rowdy behaviour escalates
Popular musicals will be told to avoid phrases such as "best party in town" and "dancing in the aisle…
