Bridge theatre, London Yolanda Mercy's funny, engaging verse monologue finds a twentysomething torn between dodging responsibility and accepting it's time to define herself All children, exc…
Royal Opera House, London, and online After seven months away from the spotlight, the entire company release their pent-up energy in a jubilant and moving three-hour gala of greatest hits Th…
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig flutters while Maxine Peake is uproarious in a fiendish double bill from Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series What a cunning double bill this is. The latest…
Barbican Art GalleryThe air of a memorial hangs over this exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking Scottish choreographer Michael Clark was a streetwise angel of a dancer, leaving the Roya…
The blockbuster musical once meant everything to Shantel Wetherall. But in 2020, it presents a moral dilemma she hasn't yet untangled Moral dilemmas are assailing us from all angles at the m…
With productions staged live outdoors, livestreamed, or available online, this year's festival fused the past with the present, and engaged an audience both present and remote "You see me, r…
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the dog reinvents medieval wagon theatre for the 21st century " but it's more of an idea than a fully fleshed out story Credit to imitating the dog for looking at th…
Available onlineThe imperilled astronauts' story is retold with a topical slant and a mastery of slow-burn tension What makes this play by Torben Betts gripping is the thrill of a life-and-d…
As he returns in a new film version of Uncle Vanya, the star remembers when Covid shuttered the West End and reflects on the arts crisis You were playing the doctor, Astrov, in Ian Rickson's…
Revisit the work of one of Britain's greatest playwrights in the month that he would have turned 90 Continue reading...
Bridget Christie was a bag of nerves, Suzi Ruffell played Covid for laughs and Stephen K Amos was so rusty he needed a clipboard ... top comics on the thrill of returning Lockdown was the lo…
RSC aims to open its biggest Stratford theatre in December, but two other venues will remain closed until 2022 The Royal Shakespeare Company is to keep two of its theatres in Stratford-upon-…
Barbican Art Gallery, LondonThe Scottish dance iconoclast married extraordinary technique with boundless imagination " and his work is as provocative as ever It's one of time's more backhand…
The comedian's new podcast is bursting with enthusiasm for poems. If standup forces him to be funny, here he forces himself to be true 'Phwooar " Ginsy Ginsy Ginsy, I love you so much!" You …
Available onlineLive Theatre's series of short plays range from the joys and perils of gardening to a howl of rage against a cruel stepmother Anyone remember the olden days? They used to hav…
Terera has withdrawn from Death of England: Delroy at the Olivier theatre due to emergency surgery Giles Terera has withdrawn from the upcoming National Theatre production Death of England: …
Available onlineThree hours of dance, music and insightful interviews " including reminiscences from Danny Boyle " celebrate the creative power of one of the greatest dancers of the 21st cen…
Future plays, the brainchild of playwright Tamsin Oglesby, is a collection of captivating extracts introduced by their authors Seen any great plays recently? Seen any new plays recently? Mor…
In the Guardian's new series, Future plays, writers introduce extracts from their scripts. The series starts with the long journey behind a historical prison drama Some time ago, I was asked…
On Connection, which draws on their life struggles and creative joys, was written 'for others who don't fit' Kae Tempest: what I have learned from 20 years on the mic The award-winning poet…
When the choreographer decided to stop flying, it raised eyebrows. But a year and a pandemic later he has become a master at virtual rehearsals Jérôme Bel may be the only choreographer w…
Wim Vandekeybus lets Rambert loose in a nightmare, while Shechter's solo piece has a timely sense of constriction The Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus likes to provoke so it's no surpri…
After years of struggling on Broadway, the writer, actor and director takes aim at New York's theatre establishment in her hit film The Forty-Year-Old Version There's a moment in The Forty-Y…
The Bridge, LondonIn this warm monologue, Inua Ellams recalls his journey from Nigeria to London to shed light on Britain's asylum system There is a wonderful sense of release as Inua Ellams…
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads The first monologue in this double-…