As the ballroom community attracts mainstream attention " and influence " many within the scene view the growing popularity with skepticism and trepidation The temperature was barely below f…
From Jerusalem and Pretty Woman to a 70s Alan Bennett farce, unreconstructed attitudes and old-fashioned smut still permeate British theatre. And irony is not much of a defence If the theatr…
Turbine theatre, LondonJJ Green's play, in which he also stars, contrasts the struggles his autistic hero faces with the rich world of his imagination This debut play about a boy growing up …
Johnstone town hallA 60s Scottish skiffle band aim for the big time in the Tutti Frutti writer's tribute piece to Baker Street singer and teenage friend Gerry Rafferty John Byrne is not a pl…
The TV adaptation of Dolly Alderton's memoir depicts the triumph of female friendship in its characters' dazzling and defiant urge to make the world their dancefloor The TV adaptation of Eve…
Ustinov, BathThe veteran director's arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare's late play One of Britain's most visionary directors, Deborah Warner, kicks …
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonEmilia Clarke and Indira Varma star in Jamie Lloyd's stripped-back West End production which asks probing questions about performance Chekhov's drama about love…
Defending statues, attacking 'wokeness', trying to destroy Channel 4 … the disgraced ex-PM's impact on the arts has been disruptive, cynical and inept " but what comes next could be even w…
Oxford PlayhouseThere are some low-wattage anecdotes in this set but the standup delivers gags about farting and haemorrhoids with an undeniable vitality There are seven signs of ageing, acc…
Available onlineA chilling portrayal of the tense encounter between the SS chief and Norbert Masur, a representative of the World Jewish Congress, works well on screen In the dying days of t…
More than 1,600 comedians, agents and producers sign open letter that accuses festival of mismanagement The Edinburgh fringe festival is attempting to quell a rebellion by hundreds of comedi…
Ã’ran Mór, GlasgowThis preposterous pun-laden panto gets everything just right with a lusty dame, a bad-tempered bear and a heroine who channels Kate Bush If you must insist on a summe…
Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival's comedy, theatre and dance 20 great Edin…
David Harewood, Sharon D Clarke and Josette Bushell-Mingo pay tribute to the pioneering star who has died aged 91 'Remarkable, revelatory, inspiring': Yvonne Brewster on Mona Hammond It is o…
The director remembers her friend, Talawa theatre company co-founder and EastEnders star as a rare talent with phenomenal attention to detail Mavis Chin came to England from Jamaica to take …
Charing Cross theatre, LondonA meeting in a toilet between a republican teacher and the Queen is disappointingly amicable with few laughs Here's a comedy for those of us who hid from the acr…
Jamaican-British actor, who played Blossom Jackson in BBC soap, hailed as a 'pioneer' and 'trailblazer' Mona Hammond, best known for playing the matriarch of the Jackson clan, Blossom Jackso…
The Ten Percent star's solo show, which is returning to London's West End, was inspired by his conversations with older gay men as a volunteer for Switchboard An hour before he stepped on st…
In our many meetings, the director's conversation was as invigorating as the way he led audiences through the night in his staging of The Mahabharata In 1979, Peter Brook made a film of Gurd…
Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable. The stars…
Revered and influential theatre director who took drama out of the auditorium to stages and spaces all over the world Peter Brook, one of the most original and influential theatre directors …
The standup on the wisest words ever given to him, his pre-show rituals and how he discovered his vocation at an anarchist vegetarian commune How did you get into comedy?I grew up in the Wes…
The conversations thrown up by Black Lives Matter and Covid have ushered in an exciting new era for Black stage creatives. Those at the forefront explain why it needs to be more than a passi…
When her family's code of silence was broken, the writer and performer Helen Wood began a journey that led to a new play, Let's Talk About Philip In the summer of 1985 Philip, my only siblin…
Jonathan Spector's 2018 play Eureka Day, about the social disarray after an outbreak of mumps, will receive its European premiere in September Helen Hunt is to star in a "wince-inducing" sat…