Slade Gardens, LondonChinonyerem Odimba's powerful musical about family relationships mixes R&B-inspired melodies with the words of real people Black Love, the first musical to be create…
Marlowe theatre, CanterburyThis stage update adds new songs to the much-loved movie caper but despite deft illusions it lacks sparkle and eccentricity Well, hocus pocus and substitutiary loc…
American actor who was one half of a glamorous 1950s couple with the British racing driver Peter Collins Louise King met Peter Collins in a Miami bar on a Monday night in 1957. Two days late…
Jennifer Lee, Disney Animation's chief creative officer and the writer and co-director of Frozen, describes expanding her hit for the stage, and reveals whether she's more of an Elsa or an A…
Old College Quad, EdinburghThis lightweight cabaret-style set sells its subject short, even if Cumming can belt out a power ballad convincingly The promise is that Alan Cumming will talk abo…
Greenwich Peninsula, LondonAbseiling on pointe, snazzy suits and spinning geometry were eye-catching openers for the Greenwich and Docklands festival There's a reason we normally trap audie…
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonAs delivered by the Dutch singer Wende, the diffuse nature of assorted words that "can only be sung" take on the force of nature I often wish I had been in Paris …
Pitlochry Festival theatreAlan Watt is superb in an adaptation of two Chekhov short stories in this pioneering theatre's fine new outdoor space Pitlochry Festival theatre has been much in th…
Assembly Festival Garden, CoventryOlivia Miller dazzles in this tart and punky solo show, which reimagines the Tudor monarch as an in-yer-face Gen-Z teen You might consider the fraught life …
Almeida theatre, LondonAdrian Edmondson plays a psychopath in Josh Azouz's nuanced tragicomedy about Jewish-Arab relations in 1942 A man is buried up to his neck with only a geometrical dese…
The actor, writer and ventriloquist gets to the heart of the things that make her laugh the most So many favourites, but Mae Martin live, even when they're just working out new stuff, is blo…
Garrick theatre, LondonKnives, flames and adrenaline aplenty lift this daredevil circus show. The stunts impress but the overblown presentation needs an update A basic circus truth: everythi…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghActor Amy Molloy delivers an elegant monologue that reveals itself as something greater in this supremely thoughtful show Kate Regan is a woman defined by the men …
Online@theSpaceUKGuileless hero Christopher Blank is 'born without a single funny bone in his body' in a one-man play that paints a near future US in broad brushstrokes Comedians becoming po…
Soho theatre, London After months of being starved of social contact, David Selley's celebration of togetherness couldn't be better timed Diane Chorley's show made a splash two years ago on …
Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage Continue reading...
It nurtured the likes of Helen Mirren and Zawe Ashton but its headquarters were cramped and miserable. Now a revamp has added a touch of Broadway glamour to the famous institution A pink neo…
Available onlineIn her audio play, Frances Poet nimbly entwines Sophia Jex-Blake's groundbreaking battles with the story of her biographer Sophia is the story of Scotland's first female doct…
Park theatre, LondonAfter a shaky start, this spooky tale gets smarter and scarier as the night goes on, cleverly entwining local history and folklore A hefty storm is brewing outside a rams…
Inspired by a Guardian article, the theatre's surreal and spellbinding show AI is a collaboration between humans and the system GPT-3 Last autumn, a deep-learning computer programme wrote an…
Created deep in the fens of East Anglia, Murmurations is a new drama about conservation in the age of extinction It's not been a great year for playwriting. In March 2020 I was deep in casti…
Comedian makes light of condition as he collects lifetime achievement award at Edinburgh TV festival Billy Connolly has said the Parkinson's disease that forced him to retire from live stand…
Most items in the museum's new theatre and performing arts galleries going on display for the first time A fabulous red dress and thigh-high leather boots worn by Lola the drag queen in the…
The author of dark comic novels such as Divorcing Jack has written a play, Nutcase, drawing on his relationship with his teenage son After writing 34 books (including comedy crime novels suc…
London WondergroundDon't expect the shock of the new from the BBC Radio 4 stalwart, but audience suggestions and music really lift the second half Is it a live show " or an impersonation of …