'Modern power couple' Kardashian and West were helpful in interpreting Macbeths, says actor The four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan and the Mare of Easttown's James McArdle have said the…
Peacock theatre, LondonForget about the plot and lose yourself in this dance-circus show whose dizzying performers cast gravity aside She falls almost in slow motion, sideways, her body rigi…
The 'godfather of modern Black cinema' is best known for the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song! Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking playwright, musician and movie director whose work…
Available onlineThere are spirited performances as Roy Williams explores activism, parenthood and sexuality in this audio drama about black British identity spanning 40 years Roy Williams's …
Coronet theatre, LondonThere's an intriguing story about sibling betrayal buried among the distracting subplots in Robert Holman's play Robert Holman's play contains some great riches. A sto…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldKaite O'Reilly relocates August Strindberg's classic to a Welsh stately home in postwar, post-pandemic 1921 'What do you know about magnificence?' asks Christine the cook o…
Harold Pinter theatre, London A lovely physical performance by Saunders brings moments of joy to an otherwise unsettled production of Noël Coward's comedy You can have a seance to get in …
Theatre Royal PlymouthBouncy songs explore three patients' experiences in this ambitious and spirited show about the health service's history and current crisis As audiences return to theatr…
ENB's lead principal has seen ballet grow better, bolder and kinder over 25 years. Now she is taking on Akram Khan's version of Frankenstein Erina Takahashi got lost on her first day at ball…
Royal and Derngate, Northampton The spiritual comedian's lofty aspirations make way for funny riffs on fatherhood and lockdown in a self-ridiculing set Are we here for laughs, or spiritual h…
Monty Python star has reinvented his play The Weekend as musical theatre Theatres are about to embark on a new "golden age" thanks to the combination of freshly enthused audiences and a driv…
Comedian has said he received Johnson & Johnson shot Fauci: FDA vote against booster shots 'not end of the story' The comedian Chris Rock on Sunday said he had tested positive for Covid…
New albums, new TV series, and actual live shows " the culture taps might have run dry during the pandemic, but this autumn they are switching on again at last. Our critics give their pick o…
How do you turn hit musicals like Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Dear Evan Hansen into films? You axe songs, throw out plots and don't worry about anyone's favourite bit Choosing a stag…
The Place theatre, LondonThe Korean choreographer's all-female re-working of this 2019 piece builds patterns and variations to an ecstatic finale Sung Im Her's W.A.Y is a "re-work" " an all-…
Playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm on how the groundbreaking female punk band helped her tell the story of women suffocating in the prison system It was a bit of a "pinch me" moment, to be hone…
Sadler's Wells, LondonShechter's heartfelt response to the pandemic, The Fix, is shaded by his 2016 work Clowns, both performed with spectacular commitment In Carol Reed's film The Third Man…
Menier Chocolate Factory; Kiln, London; Birmingham RepCultural identity unites a Jewish writer's shockingly radical play, diverse tales from Kilburn and Ayub Khan Din's 1996 classic It is wo…
York Theatre RoyalTonderai Munyevu's semi-autographical show addresses Zimbabwe's traumatic history with honesty and humour Clothes hang in broken rows above the bare stage (Nicolai Hart-Han…
Old Vic, LondonTeenage passion meets Nazi ideology in Bess Wohl's play, inspired by a real-life summer camp in the US It is 1938 and two American teenagers are at a themed summer camp on Lon…
Available onlineThe new livestreamed production from Rambert2 is both sensual and unnerving with a compelling central performance For some dance companies during the pandemic, streamed shows…
Pitlochry Festival theatreLesley Orr and Jo Clifford's show about the lives of some who have died in the past 18 months is a necessary act of communal remembrance We've read about it in the …
At the height of Europe's spring Covid wave in 2021, the filmmaker Lucy Darwin offered to drive the actor and national treasure Miriam Margolyes from her home in Italy to London so that she …
Royal Court, LondonTarantinoesque bloodshed meets Greek tragedy in Aleshea Harris's daring drama about a voyage of vengeance It is not often that a play manages to resemble a Tarantino film …
The writer, actor and comedian lifts the lid on the things that make him laugh the most Back when I used to do terrifying, doomed open spots at the London Comedy Store's late show, bombing e…