Young Vic, LondonKwame Kwei-Armah's adaptation of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem is ambitious and visually stunning, but Ben Okri's script is too broadbrush Two towering pyramids dominate th…
He wrote gags for The Tonight Show, won an Oscar for Annie Hall " and had a near-miss with the Manson family. As his musical Jersey Boys returns, the writer looks back on 82 years of sex, dr…
The RSC and City of Culture's free events include promenade performances and an installation by Tower of London poppy artist In a celebration of one of the most religiously diverse cities in…
A history of theatre's most controversial moments, from Jerry Springer: The Opera to Sarah Kane's 'unrelenting' Blasted Sensationally vulgar, this musical take on the TV host was taken to co…
Turbine theatre, LondonDespite heartfelt intentions and some energetic performances, this production doesn't do justice to the brilliance of Kevin Elyot's 1994 script Kevin Elyot's 1994 play…
Old Vic, LondonEmma Rice's version of the 1987 movie is an outrageously sentimental ode to friendship and oddballs meeting amid Californian tumbleweed Just as Wim Wenders' road movie put P…
Available onlineThe former Guardian critic, along with Evening Standard scribe Fiona Mountford, take to the limelight in this fruity vintage marital drama Victor Kiam liked his shavers so mu…
London PalladiumAlexandra Burke, Jason Donovan and Technicolor coat-wearer Jac Yarrow are among a cast whose performances ooze personality and mischief While Andrew Lloyd Webber bumpily stee…
Tired of racism on the comedy scene, Jenan Younis started her own night Weapons of Mass Hilarity " where gags about body hair and Farsi abound Every comedian expects rejection when they're s…
Hampstead theatre, London Tennessee Williams's play within a play uses ingenious artifice, as its actor brother and sister perform their way into madness, but locks out the audience There is…
Though in later years he fell from fashion, his rabbinical style in early routines felt very much like live comedy's native tongue If Jackie Mason could speak to us now, he'd surely be repor…
The live-wire choreographer has certainly not been wasting his, as he works on a new production of Carousel, a Take That film, his first ballet, and starting a family Choreographer Drew McO…
Sadler's Wells, LondonUnder the aegis of choreographer Alesandra Seutin, this year's NYDC cohort perform with attitude, vulnerability and masses of energy The National Youth Dance Company i…
Milton Keynes international festivalInspired by formal portrait photography of black Victorian Britons, Jeanefer Jean-Charles's sensual dance work restores life and humanity to its forgotten…
Norwich Theatre Royal and touring; live streamThere's so much love in the room for Acosta that a variable programme becomes more than the sum of its parts, while Rambert's cool virtual beaut…
Theatre Royal Windsor; Harold Pinter theatre; Bush, LondonIan McKellen's wonderfully assured Prince of Denmark is a double-edged sword; The Crown's Emma Corrin can do far more than Diana; an…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonApril De Angelis and Lucy Rivers bring 18th-century London to scabrous life in their boozy new musical satire with an excellent ensemble The opening number i…
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterSuzanne Ahmet turns on the charm as Elizabeth in this outdoor production of Austen's great love story and wry comedy of manners "If life is not all ab…
London WondergroundFrom basketballs to B-boys to BMXs and unicycles, everything spins at speed in this dizzying show that melds street culture with circus spectacle to make your seat shake 3…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThis rousing Gin Lane musical by April De Angelis and Lucy Rivers has working-class women at its heart Gin Craze! enacts a lesser-remembered piece of 18th-cent…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeThis delightful promenade show uses pretty-as-a-picture design, undercut with creepy asides, to bring ETA Hoffmann's famous tale alive Who knew there was…
The outdoor theatre company will cover more than 12,000 miles this summer, visiting more than 60 venues. Guardian photographer David Levene joined the Macbeth road trip The Covid-19 pandemic…
Theatre Royal WindsorThe actor brings brilliant nuance and daring to his part in an age-blind production marred by some eccentric decisions This Hamlet, starring 82-year-old Ian McKellen as …
Garden theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe Royal Shakespeare Company's outdoor production grabs every possible gag in this tale of twins and doppelgangers Even ITV's emotive DNA-reunion show Lo…
Red Rose Chain will present Macbeth at the pop-up playhouse on the site of the greatest British archaeological discovery of the 20th century A new outdoor theatre is to open next summer at S…