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Sadler's Wells, LondonMbi makes a transformative journey from east London, where he grew up, to his ancestral home in Cameroon
Dickson Mbi is known as a dancer of power, grace, finesse and c…
Cumbernauld theatre at LanternhouseThe four actors are less interested in Wells's sci-fi fantasy than in the divisions of today as they stock up for the coming apocalypse with onions, tampon…
The actor best-known for playing Princess Anne in The Crown on making her National Theatre debut in The Crucible " and how the world it portrays is not so different from today
Erin Doherty g…
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonFine crowd-work, choice joke-writing and a standout set-piece about the comedian's Kafkaesque efforts to trace his birth parents
We have Covid to thank for So Where…
Harold Pinter; Donmar Warehouse; Dorfman, LondonAs a mild-mannered German academic who drifts into becoming an SS officer, David Tennant is transfixing; a vibrant oddball musical bridges the…
Theatre Royal, Glasgow; and touringA racist ode by the court poet William Dunbar is the problematic inspiration for the fourth of Munro's James plays exploring Scotland past and present
Rona…
The Hope theatre, LondonThe characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie …
The online programme of the forward-facing London festival boasts thoughtful and varied work by Calixto Neto, Abby Zbikowski and more
Dance Umbrella, London's celebration of cutting-edge dan…
From Stranger Things re-enactments to Batman dining nights, interactive events are taking over town centres " and fans are willing to pay high prices for the Instagrammable privilege of part…
With songs by Elton John and Jake Shears and a script by James Graham, this new musical about the televangelist has a lot of talent behind it. The creative team explain how they brought her …
Fierce festival, BirminghamThis immersive cabaret invites you into a world of 'goblin core', drag ogres and live art happenings
Birmingham's Fierce festival opened this week with a compellin…
Reading Rep theatrePlaywright Gary McNair turns the gothic novel into a brilliantly bewitching show performed by Audrey Brisson
The small square stage looks more fitted up for a standup gig…
Tron theatre, GlasgowA hazily defined relationship makes it hard to fathom the squabbles and romance in this wordless show inspired by 1940s French cinema
What's not to like? You've got Rame…
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, LondonGig, club night and stage show meld into one in this pulsating evening of dub music and dance
Calling all dub fans, bassheads, anyone with a Trojan Records CD…
Vaults, LondonAn exuberant but baggy Stranger Things parody hardly turns its source material upside down
It has a pulsating synth soundtrack and brought Kate Bush an overdue No 1 so why not …
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York
John David Washington and Samuel L Jackson star in a tonally misjudged drama oddly played for awkward laughs
August Wilson's The Piano Lesson is not a comed…
Hackney Empire, LondonThe crossword-setting comic has lost none of his zest as he noodles in the nooks and deep-dives into the details
Struggling for comedy work under lockdown, Dave Gorman …
Eliza Doolittle's sparkling dress is one of 100 items that celebrate 'transformative power' of musicals
Weighed down by diamante, rhinestones, pearls, crystal beads, sequins and long, pale g…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonIvy Tiller: Vicar's Daughter, Squirrel Killer by Bea Roberts and Nina Segal's O, Island! offer cartoonish satire that lacks sting
The RSC has been sitting…
Brixton House, LondonJoy Alpuerto Ritter rethinks Mary Wigman's Witch Dance and Calixto Neto explores objectification alongside compelling 'shifting pop' from Linda Hayford
A glitter-covered…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonRevived with a superb cast, CP Taylor's play about a professor embracing nazism is fascinating psychological theatre with the feel of a fever dream
There is an i…
Available onlineA virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter
This virtual conversation between Samuel …
Platform, GlasgowAn exhilarating show shifts Renton, Sick Boy and pals into the acid house era " and is even more visceral than the book
Perhaps you thought Trainspotting was too coy. Maybe …
As Kenneth MacMillan's classic returns, his widow Deborah and Edward Watson " celebrated for dancing the lead role " reflect on preserving the spirit of this seamy beast of a ballet
It has b…
Versatile actor with a long career on stage and screen, best known as the TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She WroteAlthough she was born in London, and retained a classic English poise…
