Available online Disgraced stars must plead for the audience's forgiveness " or suffer a nasty fate " in a show that prizes horror over interaction, yet delivers a satisfying adrenaline high…
Almeida, London; Soho theatre, London; both available onlineAdrian Lester and Danny Sapani work as one in Lolita Chakrabarti's brilliantly realised study of male friendship. And a breathless…
The actor, who has died aged 80, had a thriving screen career but was also a terrific stage star and an essential member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre company Ronald Pickup, who has…
The actor found global fame with The Crown and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, following a prolific and acclaimed career in the theatre and on television Ronald Pickup, a highly respected st…
It was meant to provide theatres with a lifeline during Covid. But livestreaming is now giving them extraordinary reach. Can it be sustained " and could it turn out to be a new existential t…
Available onlineThis superb play draws on the final hours of Christopher Alder, who died in police custody in Hull in 1998 Christopher Alder's last moments, in April 1998, were unforgivably…
Available online It's a ball playing sleuth " with Dr Watson's help " even if you don't identify the killer in this interactive show This interactive sleuthing show has the punning title The…
Pippa Evans, star of improvised musical Showstopper!, has written a self-help book based on her stage experiences. 'Yes … and?' asks our comedy critic Did you ever think: I wish my life wa…
Our series exploring the stage origins of hit comedies continues with the cult hospital horror show that scared up audiences to become a fringe sensation Garth Marenghi, serious horror write…
She used to chair the Conservatives. He used to perform in his underpants. Could Nick Helm turn Sayeeda Warsi into a comedian? A Tory baroness and a leftwing comedian walk into a bar. As set…
New visa rules, taxes and transport restrictions are some of the hurdles British dance and theatre organisations must now overcome to tour Europe Brexit or Covid? Hardly a cheerful choice, b…
Falstaff, Mistress Quickly and the fairy rulers of A Midsummer Night's Dream helped the author through a traumatic childhood and feature in her memoir No Boys Play Here Sally Bayley was abou…
Ingmar Bergman's movie unpacks, like no other, the intimate emotional processes of staging and seeing a play In the opening scene of Fanny and Alexander, a boy is alone in an empty house, pl…
The stars of stage and screen chat about playing witches, seeing ghosts and stepping into another legend's shoes They have enjoyed huge success on TV with The Undoing and Killing Eve, respec…
Claire Thomas will never forget the first time she saw Happy Days. Her new novel, The Performance, revolves around it I first saw Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at the Malthouse Theatre in Melb…
Live comedy's lack of regulation has enabled sexist and predatory behaviour but a group of female standups have ambitious plans to overhaul the industry Irish comedian Ruth Hunter started st…
EU work permit regulations could scupper productions like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The National Theatre is shelving plans to tour productions to mainland Europe due …
Writers and artists including RóisÃn Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown There have been many notable nightclubs in film…
Dimitris Lignadis maintains innocence as allegations continue to shake arts and sports worlds The former director of Greece's national theatre has been detained on charges of rape amid mount…
Tam Dean Burn says he and many other members of the union for actors and other creative workers have no confidence in the leadership of their Brexit-supporting general secretary I write in t…
The Cuban star talks about his battle to lift spirits at the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the film he has made to rally performers as their stages stay dark When Carlos Acosta, considered one…
The Irish actor on reimagining Antigone, what she learned from Billie Whitelaw, and starring in Jed Mercurio's new crime drama Lisa Dwan, 43, is an Irish actor particularly celebrated for he…
MZG Theatre Productions; available onlineJanie Dee impresses in a smart production of a Terence Rattigan solo work bound up in class issues Terence Rattigan has long been rescued from the th…
Available onlineDanny Sapani and Adrian Lester strike up true chemistry in a poignant friendship drama that wears its racial context lightly Danny Sapani describes this play about an oddbal…
The comedian and radio presenter on the things that make her laugh the most It's probably a video of an Irish family who had a bat in the house. The son is shouting: "Get it out!" His mum is…