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My mother, Jill Freud, who has died aged 98, was a dynamic actor and producer, and the founder of one of the UK's most cherished summer rep theatres.
On graduating from the Rada drama school…
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe
The actor Jack Shepherd, who has died aged 85, was, in his own quiet and modest way, a Ren…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme A fresh telling of Hans Christian Andersen's story deploys circus skills and inventive design to create a memorable merworld
The Little Mermaid is big b…
The classic novel is given a new spin with this festive spectacular at Sadler's Wells East following the fortunes of a fashion designer encountering ghosts of the past, present and future
Al…
When the great artist saw a shocking play by Martin McDonagh about the torture of children, she asked him for more dark stories. As the vivid, extraordinary works they triggered go on show, …
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonAbigail Pickard Price's stripped-back staging conjures ghost stories, seaside dreams and Dickensian tragedy through three performers' dazzling transformations
Th…
Arcola theatre, London Hanging around backstage while their chances to play Brutus and Cassius fade, two unnamed actors start to act out their own drama
This is no glam…
As the Harry Potter actor brings Draco Malfoy to Broadway and is set to star in a Jimmy Carr-penned spoof period drama alongside Damian Lewis, the eternal bad boy will answer your questions
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Stephen Poliakoff's 1991 film Close My Eyes, about incestuous siblings, echoes as the actors return in David Eldridge's End, playing a couple facing a cancer diagnosis
First there was Beginn…
In Initiative, a group of young people in the early 2000s finds themselves via the role-playing game, the latest example of its undying popularity
It sounds like a big ask, the idea of prese…
Polka theatre, LondonThis spellbinding adaptation uses a bulging dramatic toolbox of clever effects and manages to be both epic and intimate
Some children's books " simple stories from famil…
One of the greatest actors of Japanese cinema best known for Ran, the 1985 film adaptation of King Lear
Though he had the well-appointed bone structure of the 1950s matinee idol, it was Tats…
Ariana Grande sparkles in the concluding part of the Wicked Witch tale, and the first batch of final episodes of the retro sci-fi juggernaut are unleashed
Wicked: For GoodOut nowWas the deci…
Researchers say results underline large language models' poor grasp of humour, empathy and cultural nuance
Comedians who rely on clever wordplay and writers of witty headlines can rest a lit…
After getting dropped by a major label, the Leonard Cohen-influenced south Londoner kept going, and has now won fans in RosalÃa, Sabrina Carpenter and more. But writing for the Bard is th…
Lyric Hammersmith, London A sinister giant computer and a meat-eating headmaster have a sinister plan for shy Jack and his schoolfriends. Meanwhile, the Fairy Godfather has the hots for the …
Tron theatre, Glasgow There are jokes aplenty in Johnny McKnight's panto update of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland story, played with delirious daftness by an ebullient cast
More than the odd pla…
Tara theatre, London A young, gay Indian man learns steps to Britishness from a phantom vision of the Tory politician, but the result is less sinister a satire than it should be
Remember Th…
Star turns are boosting ticket sales this season, including Islington show featuring MP's Wizard of Oz and Olivier winner's Toto
We're a third of the way through the fabulously camp producti…
Soho theatre, LondonTim Foley's conspiracy-fuelled comedy pits reason against delusion as a palaeontology lecturer faces a dean who believes Jurassic Park is real
Logic and reason are torn t…
Wyndham's theatre, LondonBryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paapa Essiedu and Hayley Squires achieve theatrical alchemy in Ivo van Hove's superb production
In 2014 Ivo van Hove's Young …
The West End show's former lead actors will travel back in their careers to share the role with its current star for the 1985 film's anniversary
Audiences at the West End musical Back to the…
Birmingham RepHumphrey Ker and David Reed's witty thriller blends Victorian sleuthing, meta gags and new songs by the great musical-theatre duo
A serial killer working through the alphabet (…
Alice and Ellen Kessler, who died by joint assisted suicide this week, entertained " and occasionally scandalised " Europe with their glitzy and subversive pop music and classically informed…
Long before her big-screen success as Elphaba, the British actor lit up the stage with performances in Sister Act, The Color Purple and other hit shows Continue reading...
