Jeremy Pope and Paul Bettany play the art legends in The Collaboration staged by artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah It promised to be a knockout exhibition, with both artists wearing boxing …
As the Young Vic announces it will premiere The Collaboration, Anthony McCarten's play about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, look back at shows about Picasso, Kahlo, Dalà and other …
Lyttelton theatre, LondonThere is a prevailingly saggy sitcom vibe as characters shelter in an English country house in a production with many failings Moira Buffini's new play tries to be e…
As I stepped on stage and started riffing with the audience something glorious happened " a part of me I thought had died for ever roared back to life My first time back on stage doing stand…
The Big House, LondonThis immersive show creates a raucous energy as Maz runs away from her care home and tries to carve her place in the music scene Every year there are new immersive shows…
After winning 10 Tony awards on Broadway, an adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's high-kicking, pop song-mashing film hits both the West End and Melbourne. Its creators draw back the red velvet curt…
Komedia, BrightonThe comic's swaggering take on religion is ebullient before a handbrake-turn brings emotional candour too Luisa Omielan's last show, Politics for Bitches, ostensibly about p…
Jacksons Lane, London Through intriguing group scenarios, the impressive Represent cast consider politics and tyranny without resorting to pat solutions Interruptions interrogates the rights…
As their new film for the National Theatre is broadcast, the duo look back on a phenomenal series of stories on class, race, sport and British identity "Quiet on set, please!" They are not t…
'Ralph Fiennes strode into the dressing room and said he loved the show " we booked him there and then. The whole thing was very kick-bollocks-scramble' Sean Foley, co-writer and performer I…
The actors recreate their Victor & Barry comedy duo " and recall their unique creative spark Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson met at Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in …
Yomi á¹¢ode's one-hander and Regent's Park production of Romeo and Juliet win four awards each A one-man play about grief and a contemporary version of a Shakespearean classic have domina…
Kiln; Royal Court, LondonThe Wife of Bath is wonderfully at home in 21st-century Brent in Zadie Smith's inspired reworking of Chaucer. Meanwhile, the troubles of the Royal Court's big new pl…
Leeds Playhouse and touringThe arrest of a man outside a shop provides the framework for a dramatic investigation of black people's experiences Nana-Kofi Kufuor's new two-hander opens with a…
Sadler's Wells Theatre, LondonThe choreographer draws on his own experiences to create a powerful evocation of alienation, oppression and memory Depression is more than just dark, or down: i…
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonThe extraordinary work of the late choreographer Robert Cohan finds full expression in two heartfelt tribute shows by Yorke Dance Project When I fir…
As a new staging of Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley opens in London, director Rebecca Frecknall and 94-year-old composer John Kander, the only survivor of the original cre…
When his Broadway show became a global phenomenon, the rigours of daily performance kept the actor and songwriter grounded. Then Disney and Hollywood came calling. Now, the 'musical theatre …
Get Off! was set up by Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Nina Gilligan in order to create safer workplaces within little-regulated industry An organisation has been established to tackle sexual hara…
Leicester Square Spiegeltent, LondonFrom a sword-swallowing fire-breather to high-risk rollerskaters and the Incredible Hula Boy, this is sexy, edgy, head-exploding stuff Taking the Edinburg…
Barn theatre, CirencesterThis bewitching but at times confusing adaptation offers a spin on the familiar story before swerving into panto mode The Grimm brothers' Aschenputtel is far from th…
My friend John Lambert, who has died aged 75 of cancer, was a director, performer and founder of the Q20 community theatre project in Bradford. He was also a Labour councillor for seven year…
As he begins a West End run in the musical Cabaret, the It's a Sin star talks about his part in breaking down racial and sexual barriers in theatre and TV Omari Douglas is a natural performe…
Kiln theatre, LondonThe author's debut play lets one of Chaucer's most revolutionary characters loose in modern-day Kilburn in a celebration of community and a life well-lived For her debut …
Park theatre, LondonLydia White is magnetic as the aspirational Jo in an uneven but stirring adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic Jo March is a heroine well suited to musical theatre. S…