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Chichester Festival theatre/onlineDirector Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane's one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair
Crave was the one-act…
Tributes paid to performer best known for his work on TV shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway and QI
The actor and comedian John Sessions has died at the age of 67. Sessions, best known f…
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh/onlineThe comedian " on a solo tour of UK theatres " finds warm and funny layers of humanity in the small details of everyday lives
Daniel Kitson doesn't strike you a…
As he prepares to shake up the 'Eurocentric' Venice Biennale, the Royal Ballet choreographer talks about his fears for the arts " and how social distancing has made dancers of us all
Wayne M…
Show would be most ambitious and complicated yet attempted during Covid pandemic in UK
The Old Vic is planning to stage the most ambitious and complicated piece of livestreamed UK theatre ye…
Rose Theatre, Kingston Before live comedy disappears once more, Kane delivers a terrific, barnstorming set sending up the pandemic " and the government's laughable response to it
On Wednesda…
OnlineBeginning at the end, Jonathan Coe's novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit
Jonathan Coe's satirical novel about the venality of the That…
Nottingham Playhouse; Apollo; Bridge, LondonOpposites attract in James Graham's typically astute new two-hander; Adam Kay's surgical wit lights up the West End; and an asylum story with styl…
Nottingham Playhouse; ZoomThe actor was joined by Adrian Scarborough for a seasonal dose of phone calls from the other side and undead criminality
'The oldest and strongest emotion of mankin…
Some standups see it as their job to provide collective catharsis for the coronavirus, while others see pandemic gags as off-limits " even ones about Trump
"I've been getting a lot out of l…
Rose theatre, KingstonWilly Russell's play works well in a socially-distanced staging, and the questions it asks about the value of arts and education feel more pertinent than ever
This 40th…
Sadler's Wells, LondonWill Tuckett's intricate new work takes its inspiration from nature and was the shimmering centrepiece of an ambitious and enjoyable programme at the reopened London da…
The world of standup has been rocked by allegations of sexual harassment and assault " and finally some men in the industry are vowing to tackle it
When US comedian Kelly Bachman found herse…
As Crave, by the radical and controversial playwright Sarah Kane, is revived at Chichester Festival theatre, revisit some of her productions as snapped by the Guardian's Tristram Kenton Cont…
She went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn't immune to the storms battering theatre
Sharon D Clarke was…
Birmingham RepA timely new work by William Tuckett is the compelling centrepiece of a fine new mixed bill from Carlos Acosta's BRB
"Ballet is back," announced company friend Alan Titchmarsh,…
21Soho, LondonBritain's Got Talent botherer Nabil Abdulrashid leads an impressively forthright and sometimes edgy night of standup dealing with race and identity
Comedian Nabil Abdulrashid …
Continuing our Future Plays series, the writer introduces an extract from his unstaged script about a disillusioned ex-Clinton adviser navigating the slow-motion apocalypse of US politics
Th…
Newcomers joined stalwarts such as Matthew Bourne, who won his ninth award
Newcomers and established theatre figures shared the honours at the Olivier awards this year in a ceremony which wa…
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis powerful, affecting drama ranges over the pioneering aviator's adventurous career and her final terrible moments
Amy Johnson is, in many ways, still the epitom…
Nottingham PlayhouseIn James Graham's Covid romcom, a couple who have just met decide to quarantine together, while in a parallel narrative they face isolation alone
The playwright James Gra…
Theatre Royal, BathPinter's modern classic gains currency in pandemic Britain
When Peter Hall directed Harold Pinter's 1978 Betrayal, charting adultery among London's literati, he noted that…
Leeds PlayhouseA fun-filled tale of local authority corruption
This new, outdoor show from the innovative company imitating the dog (ITD) is a sanguinary tale of local authority corruption "…
Apollo theatre, London London's theatre district reopened its doors to stage an evening of well-aimed wrath that somehow finds comedy in kidney surgery
After seven months away, the West End…
Immersive LDN A revitalised, socially distanced version of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel keeps the jazz age alive with song, dance and spectacle
Last year, in the "before", The Great Gatsby …
