Available onlineRussell Kane saves the day with energetic Covid gags as technical issues and uninspired material blight the first edition of a new standup series LIVENow has streamed "a stri…
The Sri Lankan actor, who had wowed audiences in Sheffield in Life of Pi, was poised for West End fame when theatres shut up shop. He reflects on a career interrupted See all our coronavirus…
RSC onlineA motion-captured Puck and computer-generated forest of fairies hint at possible futures for live performance At 7pm on Tuesday more than 7,000 people were watching. At a later per…
Available onlineAudiences try to stop an ancient artefact from falling into the wrong hands in this interactive production What would a time traveller make of it? Someone arriving from 2019 …
The Royal Shakespeare Company survived establishment resistance and economic storms to become a powerhouse. How should it now change? What's in a name? Quite a lot, as it happens. In 1960 Pe…
Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers have provided inspiration across stage and screen, via slang-singing gangs and warring garden ornaments Modern Toss on Shakespeare's classic romance Sun's…
Shakespeare tragedy will be followed by The Cherry Orchard with a cast including Steven Berkoff and Jenny Seagrove Sir Ian McKellen's return to the role of Hamlet, 50 years after he first to…
Choreographer's new version, to be performed at Leicester's Curve in 2022, reinvents Kipling's Mowgli as a climate refugee At the age of 10, Akram Khan played Mowgli in an Indian dance versi…
Available onlineIan Hallard's entertaining romance is full of conversational crossed wires and social awkwardness A pandemic drama that centres on two people in a Zoom conversation is a risk…
The musical, which went into previews on Wednesday, is the most anticipated show opening in Australia " and maybe in the world Last night, blockbuster musical Hamilton was seen by paying aud…
Home, presented by the Abbey theatre, shines a light on decades of abuse of unmarried women and children in Ireland Ireland's Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, which pu…
In New York in 1975, Wendy Perron joined Brown's trailblazing company at a pivotal time for postmodern dance. She recalls the surprises that lay in store I had seen Trisha Brown's work in a …
A solo theatre adaptation, co-produced by Theatre Royal Bath and the Royal & Derngate, will tour the UK this summer Ralph Fiennes is to direct and star in a solo theatre adaptation of TS…
Shote appeared on the West End, television and stages across the UK, and was artistic director of OrÃsun Productions, focusing on talent from the African diaspora Tributes have been paid …
This online experiment uses live motion capture to bring the fairies and sprites of A Midsummer Night's Dream to vivid life The opening moments of Dream contain all the enticements of an aug…
The Oscar-winning star portrayed rival gang leaders in the stage and screen versions of the classic musical. He remembers dancing with Marilyn Monroe, playing Dracula and his role as a tromb…
After drama school, the actor feared she'd made a terrible mistake until she had a run of acclaimed roles on stage, TV and in the hit film version of David Copperfield Rosalind Eleazar remem…
Klaus Dörr steps down with immediate effect after accusations including humiliating older actors The director of Berlin's Volksbühne theatre has resigned after allegations of sexual harass…
Available onlineChris Bush's community play uses local music and family histories to explore the city's resilience, hope and determination It begins, as a show about Sheffield only could, wi…
With stages closed, dancers have thrived on Instagram and TikTok, given innovative online performances and found a huge new audience The first time I cried watching someone dance in their li…
The popularity of internet comics has ballooned in the past year, and talent agents are taking notice. But will viral lols translate to a long-term career? Whether it is Munya Chawawa as the…
A long-lost London playhouse and Rada's headquarters feature in this 1950 caper starring a showstopping Marlene Dietrich The stage on screen: more films about theatre Abraham Lincoln's assa…
The stars of Netflix's Bridgerton and Hollywood talk about singing in the shower, the alchemy of the theatre " and why no one in Stephen Sondheim's Company would ask LuPone to dance Patti Lu…
Available onlineEternal youth and beauty exist only online in this thoroughly modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde's fable, which counts Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley among its impressive cast I…
Since last March I have been remembering a lifetime of plays. Each one has reminded me what we're missing Theatre is an artform of the memory. A night at the theatre is a fugitive experience…