The actor, who is taking on a one-off role as a detective, is ready for an all-singing, all-dancing production next He has played a wizard, a supervillain and the great Shakespearean leads "…
Soho theatre, LondonAn account of a terrible gig opens 'a silly window' on the Mash Report comic's mental health and the rise of nativism Why is Nish Kumar such a bete noir for angry rightwi…
The multi-hyphenate talks about the rerelease of his groundbreaking drama Shortbus and the changes in how we view sex in the past 15 years It's a little more than 15 years since John Cameron…
The Tragedy of Macbeth follows in the footsteps of Orson Welles's 1948 film, which showed how imagination can turn Shakespeare's text into more than a costume epic With Joel Coen's The Trage…
Award-winning theatre producer David Pugh says little productions can't win in post-Covid environment Critically acclaimed smaller West End shows are being squeezed out of theatre's post-Omi…
King's Head theatre, LondonSigmund Freud and CS Lewis have a debate about religion that applies the lost notion of civilised disagreement in Mark St Germain's trenchant play Give or take th…
Her scathing, surreal standup wowed audiences " and when she was diagnosed as neurodivergent, it started to make more sense to her, too In 2018, Fern Brady's comedy career was taking off. Fr…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis stripped-back, teen-oriented version crowbars ad-libs into the text, messing with the dramatic rhythm Part of Southwark Playhouse's Shakespeare for Schools pr…
The Place, LondonBroussé brings a tale of baking and suffering to glorious life in this much-kneeded autobiographical show The title of Jean-Daniel Broussé's solo show is a pun on the Fren…
Piccadilly theatre; Young Vic, LondonA razzle-dazzle take on Baz Luhrmann's Parisian pop jukebox triumphs through force of glitz, while a new play about race gets lost in abstraction There i…
Coliseum, LondonThe plot's still a problem but the dancers give their all in the outgoing ENB artistic director's bold attempt to bring an old classic in from the cold One of Tamara Rojo's e…
Theatre Royal, BrightonThe 1987 revenge movie returns as a play, with Kym Marsh starring as a blandly monstrous 'bunny boiler' spurned by her married lover Lock up your rabbits! The 1987 thr…
Ian McKellen and Sanjeev Bhaskar will also take to stage and solve a crime without rehearsal in starry fundraising drama at London theatre Actors have nightmares of going on in a play for wh…
The musician died at home with his family by his side, his agent confirmed The US singer and actor Meat Loaf has died aged 74, his agent has confirmed. No cause of death was shared. Born Mar…
Show scored by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary is set to become summer's hot ticket and will premiere in Cheltenham in July After all those weekly showstopper challenges, it was perhaps inevit…
As the Oscar-winning actor returns to the UK boards in 2022 " first at Bristol Old Vic in Dr Semmelweis then in Jerusalem at London's Apollo " we remember some of his theatrical highlights C…
Piccadilly theatre, LondonWith pyrotechnics, a looming elephant, scenery to die for and a cast with energy to burn, this revival only falters when it tries to update the tunes At the end of …
The Walking Dead and Save Me actor and writer on his return to theatre, why he left to work in the US, and what his mum would think of his career choice Lennie James has missed being on stag…
Young Vic, LondonAnthony Ofoegbu portrays a man at the end of his tether, but this play gives frustratingly few clues as to how he got there I keep waiting and hoping for the story to land. …
Coliseum, LondonEven if the drama disappoints in parts, the music and dancing in Tamara Rojo's brave, inventive take on the 19th-century, will-she-won't-she love story is a delight It's comm…
Living Record festival Noack's attempts to compare comedy routines to evangelising would have been more persuasive with discernible jokes Standup resembles biblical preaching, according to A…
As Covid hit casts, understudies suddenly found themselves needed everywhere " with little warning. We meet these unsung heroes, including a Beanstalk Jack who took on three other last-minut…
She began creating them as an outlet during the first lockdown, now the actress's spoof sketches are a massive internet hit The video was, according to former Ukip leader Henry Bolton, evide…
Did the iconic three-note sequence come from Stravinsky, the Muppets or somewhere else? Our writer set out to " dun, dun duuuun! " reveal the mystery There's surely only one thing that unit…
Available onlineStephen Joseph theatre's filmed seasonal offering is a proper winter warmer with some off-the-wall touches Scarborough's Stephen Joseph theatre had to cancel almost half the …