Edinburgh PlayhouseA refreshed version of the Disney perennial begins a tour of the UK with some spectacular visual feasts and a heart-stopping performance by Courtney Stapleton as Belle Thi…
Available onlineA solitary woman finds a strange new presence in her remote house in this audio play which debates people v the planet, nature v culture The stranger on the threshold is a dr…
Royal Shakespeare Company cancels planned extension of The Mirror and the Light in West End Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Royal Shakespeare Company has …
Playground theatre, London'You don't want to help. You just want to say you've helped' … this series of heated and occasionally heavy-handed dialogues illuminate social hypocrisy and class…
Haley McGee, James McNicholas and Mo Gilligan talk about the tricky business of turning stage performances into a reading experience When developing her solo show The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale,…
My friend Ian Gardiner, who has died aged 92, was an actor perhaps best known for playing the role of Reginald Molehusband in a 1967 public information film about parking. Contrary to expect…
Returning to the stage to play Faye Treadwell, formidable manager of the Drifters, the singer and actor explains how she faced down sexism and racism to forge her own career path in Britain …
The Civic, BarnsleyProper Job's staging of Kafka's unfinished novel has a watchable lead and some cracking jokes, but leaves us short on connection There is a clue about what is to come befo…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldMark Lambert is superb as a widower given a digital assistant in Tim Price's rumination on loneliness, privacy and ethics It is March 2020, and widower Roger (Mark Lambert)…
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe artist's energetic live show splices together standup, anecdotes and singing " all inspiring us to flee the monochrome and mundane "Ted Talk " the panto!" is h…
Playwright, who was gravely ill with the virus, says it's 'nonsense' that viewers don't want a pandemic drama Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A TV drama written…
Rachael Stirling recalls her mother's last months " and remembers her enormous sense of fun, whether pulling pranks on stage or dancing until dawn on her 80th birthday When Ma found her canc…
Lyric; Tabernacle; Donmar Warehouse LondonMagnetic Arinzé Kene as Bob Marley powers the West End's latest jukebox musical. And a verbatim play drawn from the Grenfell inquiry bears unstinti…
Salisbury Playhouse and touringIan McDiarmid wryly contemplates mortality in his engaging new adaptation of two Julian Barnes short stories "Among the Chinese, the lemon is the symbol of dea…
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor, Thomas Adès and Tacita Dean's dream-team Divine Comedy, danced with glorious freedom by the Royal Ballet, is a fitting farewell to its star One of t…
Bristol Old VicRetelling the gothic novel with intelligently charming humour and a live band, this is a bold and ingenious production Emma Rice calls Wuthering Heights a tragedy in this show…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughJanice Okoh's version of the 2019 novel waters down the culture clash at its heart and suffers for the lack of the author's rich prose After Benjamin Myers…
Sadler's Wells, LondonFake babies waving to the audience, an imposing puppet bull and an optical illusion of entwined limbs combine in a cocktail of contradictions Is there anywhere else you…
A magician conjures an elephant from the sky in this new musical reopening the Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. We took a first look Continue reading...
My pregnancy made no difference to the part, but insurers wouldn't cover me. Talent is too often lost to discrimination The entertainment industry likes to think it is a champion of diversit…
Ambassadors theatre, LondonIan Shaw plays his film star father Robert in this behind-the-scenes tale of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster In the waters off Martha's Vineyard in 1974, three men …
Salisbury PlayhouseIan McDiarmid is outstanding in two pieces, one as an angry audience member and one a composer's coda Halfway through Vigilance, the first act of Ian McDiarmid's solo show…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonHeather Agyepong uses improvised movement, set to a soundtrack of real women's testimonies, to search for equilibrium amid pain Heather Agyepong cares if you're …
Two years after its first staging, Gaiman's dark fairytale has returned, this time to the West End. The author, cast and creative team discuss bringing the eldritch magic of childhood to lif…
12 Last Songs at Leeds Playhouse brings people together to talk about what they do A caterer, a coffee roaster, an imam and a former drug dealer were among the first to show up at Leeds Play…