The conflict lasted two brutal decades. Now a people's tribunal " of actors, human rights experts, witnesses and citizen judges " is staging a trial of the invasion. Tony Blair has been invi…
After Christopher Hampton saw Zeller's dementia drama on stage in Paris, neither language, finance nor another film adaptation could thwart their collaboration on the screenplay I first met …
RashDash's new theatre production honours the pre-Raphaelite by focusing on her own art and poetry " and shifting from tragedy into comedy Wan, pale, tragic. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddal is rem…
Comics including Romesh Ranganathan pay tribute to 'caring and terrific' standup, whose death from cancer has been announced The comedian Phil Jerrod, known for his richly lyrical observatio…
London Wonderground, Earls Court, LondonJarred Christmas's human cartoon antics and Hobbit's virtuoso microphone skills jolly the crowd along " but the show wasn't as interactive as billed S…
Abbey, Dublin and available onlineRosaleen McDonagh's play, an unsettling love story set in a Traveller community, has the ring of truthfulness A love story shines through a mass of societal…
The resurgence of Black Lives Matter has given fresh potency to the theatre company's production " an earthquake of sound and dance We have been encouraged to bring our "rags and flags" to T…
She won a Bafta for Alma's Not Normal " and that was just the pilot episode. As the full series launches, the ex-standup talks about growing up in care, getting the comedy bug in Ibiza and f…
Dystopian Trojan war play The Burnt City at site of Royal Arsenal will be company's costliest and most ambitious immersive piece The immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, celebrated for crea…
Almeida, LondonMirth and menace fight it out in Josh Azouz's play of shifting alliances, with Adrian Edmondson on fine form as a knitting Nazi officer The action is tragic; the dialogue freq…
Barn theatre, CirencesterMichael Morpurgo's story of a family fleeing Dresden in 1945 resonates today, animated by Alison Reid's uncanny acting Michael Morpurgo's 2010 story presents a tale …
The comedy writer, performer and satirical video producer on the things that make him laugh the most I once went to see David Kay in Edinburgh. I started laughing from the moment he came on …
Dorfman theatre, LondonA tidal wave of plotlines, ideas and characters embraces past and present in a production where playfulness meets cruelty Winsome Pinnock's leviathan of a play opens w…
Take a look behind the scenes and centre stage of the new musical production of Disney's fairytale favourite as it opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Continue reading...
Three performers " among the one million people suffering from long Covid " explain the painful process of getting back on stage In 2019, the actor and director Helen Oakleigh was hired to s…
Soho theatre, LondonThe comedian flops in a New York hotel room, sheds his inhibitions at an ayahuasca ceremony and visits a Berlin sex club as he explores his midlife crisis No one zeroes i…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonAthol Fugard's portrait of two lovers defying an apartheid-era ban on interracial sex crackles with tension In Athol Fugard's best-known play, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead,…
It was a play about the murder of the headteacher. What could possibly go wrong? Then an ill-considered marketing plan caused the crowd to erupt You know those annoying kids who are good at …
Pleasance, LondonAyden Brouwers and Lizzie Morris's insightful and emotional dance show features the thoughts of young trans and non-binary people "They say it's trans people who are obsesse…
The producer whose TV hits include The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacey on finding the poignancy in life's little moments, and heading back to the comedy circuit with his poetry Comedians b…
It was always going to be a challenge to transform Trent Dalton's sprawling hit novel for the theatre, but somehow it all hangs together On the face of it, bringing Trent Dalton's 471-page d…
Soho theatre, LondonCreative cabaret from Thrustin Limbersnake, Loose Willis and the gang celebrates reopened queer spaces and non-binary beauty After almost two years of very little access …
Book festival boss says next year will be a staging post in recovery that could take until 2030 A senior figure in the Edinburgh festivals has said it could take the rest of the decade befor…
Vivacious stage and screen actor who was a stalwart of West End shows and TV entertainment programmesDilys Watling, who has died aged 79, was an all-round entertainer on stage and screen. Fr…
Playwright, born in Czechoslovakia, talks of his gratitude to UK for saving him from a life under communism Sir Tom Stoppard has revealed how his staunch criticism of communist regimes in hi…