National Theatre, LondonThis new musical traces the intersecting lives of three families on the Park Hill estate in this spine-tingling and sentimental love song to the steel city This music…
In a shocking attack, the ballet director Marco Goecke smeared dog excrement in the face of Wiebke Hüster in retaliation for her review. Yet it isn't the first time an artist has assaulted …
Theatre says it cannot survive without funding for next three years and will shut for good at the end of March One of Britain's oldest theatres, the Oldham Coliseum, has said it will be forc…
Park theatre, LondonThis interactive play by a former diplomat about working in negotiation feels like Debating for Dummies. Anderson's off-script ad-libs are the sparkiest intervention 'Tha…
Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne and onlineImmersive, interactive and online, this story of Allison Davies' schooldays, early romances and autism diagnosis, is heartfelt Elsa has an …
Romeo, an out-of-work single dad, falls for Julie, a top student who dreams of being an astrophysicist. We go behind the scenes at a Shakespeare update that swaps fair Verona for Splott in C…
The Brits faced criticism for not nominating women in gender-neutral category but women reign in theatre awards chosen by public Women have dominated the gender-neutral performing categories…
Stravinsky's ballet sensation of 1913 shocked its first Paris audience. More than 150 versions later, the far-reaching pull of this modernist masterpiece remains irresistible… For a work t…
Nottingham Playhouse, and touringAn at times arresting production of Christy Lefteri's bestseller is let down by its didactic structure Nuri is the beekeeper of Aleppo, or he was, until his …
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Hampstead; Gillian Lynne, LondonAlex Kingston's fine Prospero weathers an RSC concept storm; the 21st century erupts into a tale of 18th centu…
Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood's emotions simmer just below the surface. And it's exactly this quality that makes her such a luminous actor. She opens up about bullying, bodies and playing C…
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonThe American choreographer delights with a programme of rare wit, beauty and unshowy complexity. Elsewhere, a Vegas-style tribute to…
Boston Conservatory at Berklee students able to take dance class taught by a Rockette on their meticulously precise technique Rhapsody Stiggers has been dancing since she was two, but the 20…
Lyttelton theatre, LondonJanet McTeer plays a politician who falls for her dead lover's son, but even her strong performance cannot save a tonally unsure play The ancient Greek tragedy of a…
Tara theatre, LondonAnthony Clark's series of short plays forms an eloquent meditation on life, mortality and the passage of time In the Seven Ages of Man speech from As You Like It, Shakesp…
Covid cut off the communal experience of live performance and venues have taken a battering. Let's return and reconnect Imagine a man at the end of his rope. Imagine someone says to him: "He…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghZinnie Harris's reworking has Macbeth's wife driving the plot, rationalising a grisly campaign, while he becomes unbalanced by their murderous path To summon up witch…
Gillian Lynne theatre, LondonHadley Fraser, Nigel Lindsay and Michael Balogun are astonishing as the 18th-century bankers who helped to define the American dream The Lehman Trilogy premiered…
Nottingham PlayhouseChristy Lefteri's novel is an account of a perilous journey from Syria to England that, despite renewed poignancy, makes for an uneven drama Christy Lefteri's bestseller …
Octagon theatre, BoltonAn impressive cast featuring the former TV presenter and Mina Anwar deliver an affecting and funny revival of Bill Naughton's tale about a suppertime spat In Mog on Fo…
The future of the historic King's theatre in Edinburgh is in peril due to the spiralling cost of its renovation project. Anneleen Lindsay has spent the last year documenting the richly atmos…
Finborough theatre, LondonThis two-hander, translated from the French, has a hypnotic narrative power as it considers the refugees' dangerous journey Two men stand at opposite ends of the st…
Komedia, BrightonOutrageous comedy, self-glamorising songs and self-ironic ridiculousness in abundance from a comic with a sharp sense of her own daftness You mellow with age, they say. So w…
Tron theatre, GlasgowFour girls gather around a pentangle in Maryam Hamidi's punchy and poetic new play, which captures the vulnerability of adolescence When you see the gang of teenagers wh…
Wilson to enact single, seven-minute scene on loop with 100 men to explore gender roles Ruth Wilson has called a new stage role in which she will perform the same scene repeatedly for 24 hou…