Theatre Royal BathThe ex-Python's production is visually enticing, playful and dreamlike but doesn't quite reach the mournful depths of parental anxiety that run through the story What makes…
To launch a major international gala independently, amid a global pandemic, should have been impossible. But 22-year-old Joel Burke is just getting started Get our weekend culture and lifest…
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe Australian comic takes incongruity to uncommon lengths " and this year he's recalibrated his show towards warmth "My mind is a prison full of crazy ideas. And I t…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghDean's great skill is to make the audience feel like intimate confidantes, but sometimes his impatience to get to the next laugh weakens the shtick It's a sign…
Karim Khan's play about two Muslim teenagers learning to swim wins £3,000 prize for best new writing A coming-of-age tale about two South Asian teenagers who learn to swim in order to imp…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWhether tap dancing, singing Abba's Money, Money, Money or lamenting the limitations of bargain-shop 'pound pants', the Welsh cast are cheeky and defiant Emilie Parr…
The Studio, Festival theatre, EdinburghPersonal trauma, the horrors of migration and religious rhetoric feature in an impassioned narrative that ultimately feels more private than shared Man…
From Liz Kingsman's 'messy woman' send-up to Seann Walsh's memories of his off-screen Strictly kiss, the nine-strong shortlist is a triumph for diversity though not without glaring omissions…
The production changed lyrics, added a 'repentance' scene and was followed by a sermon saying God would save people who 'struggle with homosexuality' A church in Texas has apologised to Hami…
Samira Wiley makes her UK stage debut, there's an urgent counter to antisemitism, plus a fourth King James, refugee dancers and comedic returns Continue reading...
The 52-year-old Canadian will succeed Tamara Rojo in August 2023 and arrives after 16 years as artistic director of Semperoper Ballett in Dresden "Diversity of people and repertoire are at t…
Strike over pay leaves city centre bins overflowing, disrupting arts festivals and providing food for vermin Heritage leaders have warned that Edinburgh faces a sharp increase in rat infesta…
Using borrowed sets and costumes, the United Ukrainian Ballet " led by ex-Bolshoi director Alexei Ratmansky " are rehearsing a Giselle they hope will do more than just thrill UK audiences "I…
Production opening in October portrays US evangelical star who challenged views on Aids and HIV The colourful life story of an American Christian superstar who became a gay icon because of h…
Actor who played the suave Leonard in the TV sitcom Butterflies opposite Wendy Craig as the downtrodden housewife RiaThe actor Bruce Montague, who has died of cancer aged 83, will be best re…
To succeed you need self-belief and drive. But life forces us to give up all the time, and being able to let things go is also a skill When I was eight, I won a competition for reading out l…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonThis absorbing take on Guy Fawkes's plan to blow up parliament has striking resonances to today's world, as well as a starry cast knocking out sensational son…
They are the shock troops of comedy, pranksters who risk arrest and worse to ridicule the powerful. As two acclaimed practitioners " including the man who threw Nazi golfballs at Trump " hit…
Festival theatre, EdinburghIvo van Hove directs a mesmerising four-hour adaptation of a divisive novel that unpicks privilege, abuse and psychological damage When Jude St Francis cuts his wr…
Assembly Rooms, EdinburghLester Purry is at home performing the late playwright's breezy yet purposeful collection of stories from his youth, in its European premiere In the hands of a less…
The king of one-liners on his unlikely comedy hero, preshow prayers and the best heckle he's ever got How did you get into comedy? I spotted an advert in the Stage newspaper advertising a ne…
West Midlands comedian Masai Graham, who works as a part-time care worker, wins title for second time A standup comedian who works part-time as a care worker on minimum wage has topped a po…
Summerhall, EdinburghDancer Jo Fong larks about with clown and circus director George Orange in a manic affront to middle age that swings from absurd to tender to life-affirming Bounding in…
Pitlochry Festival theatreThis playful adaptation of Charlotte Higgins's book is charming, if a little lacking in narrative drive How to dramatise a text that is part travelogue, part explor…
Turbine theatre, LondonLuke Bayer single-handedly plays a classroom of feuding high school drama students in this unmissable take on All About Eve A musical with a classroom full of feuding …