Above the Stag, LondonThe gags come thick and fast in this bawdy adult panto, which is set in a funeral parlour and channels Joe Orton Who loves Dick? It's hard not to in the bawdy adult pan…
Soho theatre, LondonIfeyinwa Frederick's monologue is delivered with humour and energy by Joseph Black as a man nearing 30 when depression seeps in Tunde is turning 30 and there is a fair am…
Soho theatre, LondonThe American standup delivers so-bad-they're-good music parodies and sends up millennial entitlement in a bright UK debut Best known in the UK for her scene-stealing turn…
The Yard, LondonThis ingenious dance-play hybrid makes use of a richly talented cast to interrogate black masculinity and dismantle stereotypes Who in tonight's audience, I wonder, thought t…
Soho theatre, LondonThe twisty satirist considers mental health, white privilege and youth with vividly acted, wittily phrased jokes Comedy audiences, we're told, are too sensitive these day…
Speech is out. Daft captions are in. Nearly everyone is beautiful. And one guy amassed 11m followers while living in emergency accommodation with his mum. Our critic samples TikTok comedy I'…
Andrew Garfield plays Rent composer Jonathan Larson in Miranda's sugar rush of showbiz highs and lows Lin-Manuel Miranda gives us an unashamed sugar rush of showbiz rapture and showbiz solem…
Chichester Festival theatreThe actor revisits his life and craft " not least playing Hercule Poirot " in neat but affecting touring show Has Ian McKellen started a trend? To mark his 80th b…
Rose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesOverly stylised theatrics mar this revival of Colin Teevan's monologues featuring Medea, Phaedra and others from ancient tragedies A fringed curtain of stri…
Theatre 503, LondonThis striking and lively story of a young woman dislocated both by her baby and the warping of American politics has a confident, surreal swagger Trump is in power. No, re…
The singing sensation belting out big numbers in the veg aisle, Britney's Oops! redone as vintage jazz, how to flirt if you're a woman in a musical … our critic takes her seat for theatre …
Arts theatre, LondonThis lads-together jukebox show is well sung and should go down well with office outings, but the synthetic bonhomie has a strangely cultish feel Welcome to The Jungle, t…
Arts centre had over 120 claims, including racism, investigated in external review into its operations The Barbican centre has committed to "a radical transformation of culture and behaviour…
Diploma course will provide training in live performance and theatre production at an international standard One of the world's most renowned dance institutions is to offer a two-year intens…
From tap stars duetting with Gene Kelly to Gordon Ramsay twisting with his daughter, TikTok is where performers " large, small, amateur, pro " drop the facade and dance till their toes are r…
The Egg, BathWith a brilliantly physical performance from Ebony Feare, this toe-tapping show for over-sevens doesn't shy away from the stage star's tough times It took Josephine Baker five …
Trilogy to mark the 50th anniversary of the Crucible will have performers sprinting between stages Actors will simultaneously perform three plays in three theatres as part of an "ambitious" …
A new stage production aims to tell the Sufi poet's story beyond his aphorisms " and challenge assumptions about Islam and the Middle East in the process He is everywhere and nowhere. The wo…
Grace's guest this week is the comedian, actor and writer Desiree Burch. She sits at Grace's table to discuss family, work, and the foods that have seen her through. They discuss attuning Am…
By interfering in appointments, the government is trying to shape museums and trusts in its own image When the chair of the National Maritime Museum, Charles Dunstone, wrote to the Departmen…
'We didn't give Matilda any songs because she was shy. Then we realised: it's a fricking musical " the protagonist needs to sing!' The Royal Shakespeare Company had this theory that a lot of…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickTaking refuge in nature helps a Londoner process the loss of a child in a production that, for all its charm, fails to convince Urban life shields us from nature.…
Royal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghWils Wilson delivers a high-energy version of the 17th-century play about a monstrous prince faced with the ultimate question Edinburgh's Lyceum has reopened t…
Linbury theatre, LondonWill Tuckett makes visual poetry of love, war and the work of Adrienne Rich, while Mthuthuzeli November journeys to a glitter-coated land of showtime What kinds of tim…
Criticism from David Baddiel and others prompts about-turn on play due to open this week Al Smith may not be the first British playwright to ask "What's in a name?", but this weekend he had …