Giant teddy bear Bordesley is put in charge of Birmingham city council's £3bn budget in Stan's Cafe's fun new production All Our Money "It came from a place of … what is the worst idea …
With music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Joss Stone, the show based on Audrey Niffenegger's bestseller will open in autumn A musical based on Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife,…
Rock band to lend eight songs to the 'world's first heavy metal dance experience' performed by Carlos Acosta's Birmingham Royal Ballet in September A ballet soundtracked by the music of Blac…
Damien Chazelle's Oscar-winning film will be transformed into a stage show featuring music from the same team The Oscar-winning musical La La Land is to be transformed into a stage show. Th…
My friend Wyllie Longmore, who has died aged 82, was an esteemed actor, director and acting teacher. Based in Manchester, he appeared in many stage productions in the north-west of Britain, …
He blazed a trail as the professional half of Strictly's first all-male dance partnership. Now he's targeting prejudice in a sizzling show based on his native South Africa "My producers said…
The 1990 film about high-school rebellion, featuring a jaded late-night DJ, could find a fresh theatre audience in this new age of disillusionment Watching the macabre 1989 high school movie…
Hampstead theatre, LondonRuby Thomas's play, based on a true story about a married couple in 18th-century Prussia who were tried for sodomy, is tender, musical and funny From Gentleman Jack …
The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright discusses working through the pandemic and how to best utilize traumatic experiences Like many of us, Suzan-Lori Parks thought the Covid-19 shutdown wou…
Bramall Rock Void, Leeds Playhouse Garry Lyons gives voice to Knottingley locals in this fierce indictment of how the government has failed our once-thriving industrial communities Blow Down…
Linbury theatre, London The American choreographer showcases three works with the Royal Ballet, the newest of which examines the idealism and corporeality of womanhood The Royal Ballet now h…
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterThis improbable mashup of Philip Sidney's Arcadia and the pioneering LA rock band has plenty of rhythm but little dramatic jeopardy Sir Philip Sidney's 1590 work…
Royal Court; Harold Pinter theatre, LondonTravis Alabanza and friends joyously return drag to its radical roots, while Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman keep it brief in Sam Steiner's social me…
The actor from Industry, W1A and Mistresses on her return to the theatre, her habit of breaking bones and seeing her husband as Prince Andrew Sarah Parish is known for her TV roles, often pl…
Discovery of Lope de Vega play could lead to other important finds, researchers say Lost or misattributed works by some of the finest writers of Spain's Golden Age could be discovered thanks…
Crammed with minuscule writing, manuscript is seen as earliest 'proper reader's response' to first folio In 2017, an expert on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow was excited by a minuscule 17th-cen…
By cancelling all its shows from March, the Oldham Coliseum has thrown down a challenge to both central and local government Pity the poor Oldham Coliseum. This venerable regional theatre h…
Writer, broadcaster, and half of the renowned cabaret act Kit and the Widow You could easily assume that Kit Hesketh-Harvey, who has died unexpectedly aged 65, was an old-fashioned throwbac…
Featherstone is latest high-profile figure to leave a major theatre in recent months The artistic director of the Royal Court, one of London's most prestigious theatres, is stepping down aft…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonKosovan refugee Dritan Kastrati looks back at the struggles of his arduous journey and his troubling experiences in London 'In my country" is an often rep…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonClimate catastrophe and power struggles dominate Elizabeth Freestone's RSC interpretation of Shakespeare's play If there were prizes for inventi…
In several new productions, playwrights explore the cost of living crisis as their industry reels from funding cuts, cancellations and low wages 'What galvanises me to get up in the morning …
Unicorn theatre, LondonInspired by the classic novel, this play for children leads its young heroine through surreal encounters with bureaucracy " and a giant rabbit Kafka never let Josef K …
The British entertainer said to be a favourite of King Charles, whose credits ranged from Merchant Ivory and opera to The Vicar of Dibley, has died Kit Hesketh-Harvey, the British composer a…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonHeirs and spares fight under a sleazeball Roman emperor and candles take a hammering in a brilliantly provocative show with an all-female ensemble What do you …