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The London theatre has reopened with Out West, three short plays by Tanika Gupta, Simon Stephens and Roy Williams. The Guardian's Tristram Kenton takes a first look Continue reading...
Available onlineLynda Radley's drama about three women who meet in an antenatal class captures the love and fear, the comedy and terror of motherhood in all its contradictory reality
Lynda R…
Lowry, SalfordThree androgynous, silver-clad dancers loop and glide through a retrofuturist sealed set in Requardt and Rosenberg's spaced-out touring production
Shows that are distributed ph…
The rising choreographer on the restrictions of classical roles, our need for whimsy and her new film Let Loose, which encourages children to get moving after lockdown
"In my day-to-day life…
We all had our ways to cope with isolation. For me, it was music from Evita, Hamilton, and more. Now as UK venues reopen, a flood of diverse, fresh shows and revivals are due on stage and sc…
Drama instigates debate and changes lives. With venues open again, this is a chance to build a truly civic theatre culture
Theatre may not seem like a natural place to go in order to underst…
The creator of the hit play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner on the power of comedy and why Instagram is almost like cosplay
Jasmine Lee-Jones, 22, is a writer and actor from London. In…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe ingenious struggle of a new generation of entrepreneurs is charted in Dawn Walton's bright revival of Alfred Fagon's prescient 1975 play
Alfred Fagon's play, fir…
Eight big-name actors are rebooting the award-winning love story Constellations in London's West End. The first couple discuss their parallel careers - and their hotly disputed encounter as …
Piece Hall, Halifax; now touringAmanda Whittington's new play is a stirring account of a Yorkshire women's football team playing on despite FA opposition in the 1920s
The sky above the enorm…
After playing a cocksure City boy and a MI5 officer, the actor is back in a play about blackness, family and grief. He talks rubbing shoulders with the A-list
There were kids riding past on …
Hampstead theatre, LondonDeborah Bruce's play about the awkward reunion of two fortysomething ex-lovers contains some individually striking observations but too much contrivance
Alex (Claire…
Riverside Studios, LondonTrevor Nunn's production of Samuel Beckett's classic play is stronger on music-hall comedy than bleakness
When Peggy Ashcroft played Winnie at the National Theatre, …
Liverpool EverymanMajid Mehdizadeh (AKA Luke Jerdy from Hollyoaks) explores modern-day manhood and the contagion of everyday violence
Male violence is like a virus. That is how it comes acro…
Reading Abbey RuinsBeth Flintoff's atmospheric Reformation drama casts Henry VIII as a Boris-like bully, and is staged amid the ruins of his Catholic frenemy's abbey
With so many people now …
Royal Festival Hall, LondonENB's dancers deliver in a mixed bill and William Forsythe's all-male Playlist leaves everyone grinning from ear to ear
For dance post-lockdown, the gala is in. It…
Davies Mews, Bond StreetThis immersive show makes up for its disarray with the visceral thrill of moving among familiar and stunningly realised aliens
"It's been a frantic day," says Leonard…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldRhodri Meilir is brilliant as a beleaguered pizza topper inspired by the Finnish film-maker in Alan Harris's black comedy
Originally due to be staged in spring 2020, Alan H…
Theatre Royal BathUncertainty reigns supreme in a fast and fluid revival of Michael Frayn's resonant, if sometimes impenetrable, play
Rehearsals for this revival of Michael Frayn's award-win…
As the legendary Cornwall-based theatre company closes, the people who made its astonishing productions look back on four decades of mayhem and innovation
Mike Shepherd (founder, artistic di…
Ballet empowered Bussell who is determined to protect the industry and show how dance is 'the perfect wellbeing pill'
Darcey Bussell has never minded taking risks. That was true as a fearles…
Boris Johnson says government is in talks with composer, who is 'surprised' to hear of the proposed pilot
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The comedy special reflects the messy, diffuse, barely processable collective experience of the past year, by digging deep into the online condition
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From the story behind Sondheim's Broadway flop to political theatre during South Africa's apartheid, these films capture the power of plays
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Actor and director acknowledged musical failed to adequately represent Afro-Latinos, saying: 'I can hear the hurt and frustration'
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