Mark O'Connell's To Be a Machine asked whether technology is a means to eternal life. Now, a livestreamed version starring Jack Gleeson gives tech a new dimension in theatre Humans and robot…
Four courtrooms will be installed in the Salford Quays theatre to help deal with a 46,467 case backlog Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage There are many barriste…
Performance involving full company will feature duets thanks to couples in bubbles Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage One of the largest dance performances to h…
As Lucian Msamati stars in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads at the Bridge theatre, London, we revisit his career through the archive of Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton Continue reading...
Six sparky young dancers give their all in a scintillating competition streamed from the ballet's new Docklands home English National Ballet is back from lockdown with the 11th annual Emergi…
Khadifa Wong's fascinating documentary Uprooted traces the origins of an artform and the cultural bias that robbed great practitioners of recognition Jazz dance. It's Broadway and the West …
The newly formed Musical Theatre Factory creates bespoke musicals for any occasion; for our critic, a potentially barnstorming show about her predecessor... Like all good ideas, it looks obv…
Chris Nash documented the work of Richard Alston's celebrated dance company for 25 years. He looks back at 10 key photographs included in his new book, Alston Nash, which is available now Co…
The explosion of digital productions of all sizes has shown great creativity and made hit shows more accessible " but is it all financially sustainable? In the past six months, theatre has o…
The actor, relishing his first meal out in months, discusses lockdown, Line of Duty and playing opposite David Tennant in Des If we'd had this lunch six or seven months ago, Daniel Mays sugg…
As the 'Duchess of Canvey' releases a greatest hits album, her creator relives an extraordinary journey from Southend to the West End via schoolteaching and Ibiza superclubs 'Diane is based …
Old Vic, LondonMichael Sheen, Indira Varma and David Threlfall are a superb trinity for Brian Friel's powerful monologues The Old Vic's livestream of Faith Healer " with the divine cast of M…
Soho theatre, LondonThis larky Zoom-era adaptation of the director's film about white-collar leadership is full of improv-style gusto In 2006, a year after the US launched a version of Ricky…
The woman behind cult HBO comedy Insecure has been making and starring in her own series for years. What took Hollywood so long to notice? Issa Rae, one of the first black women to create an…
West End and provincial theatres are beginning to open to the public once more. So what has changed? It has been six months since actors trod the boards of theatres across the country but f…
St Luke's Bombed Out Church, Liverpool theatre festival Prejudice and passion powers Maria Paul's oral history of three white women who married black men in Liverpool 8 Performers are the pu…
Performer stages protest to 'go to bat' for imperilled workforce overlooked by post-Covid reopening of schools, offices and pubs The best theatre and dance to watch online Beverley Knight h…
Writer on drama and champion of Brecht who shared Shaw's view that theatre should add to people's livesThe first half of the life of Eric Bentley, who has died aged 103, constituted a classi…
The Garden theatre at the Eagle, LondonA cast of six including Strictly's Joanne Clifton perform Stephen Schwartz's breezy songs in a new outdoor venue What a way to woo an audience! Pippin…
Dick Whittington presented in new in-the-round season that includes sequel to hit football play Death of England The National Theatre in London is to reopen next month with a season that inc…
When Covid put Michelle Payne's drama about women footballers on hold, she turned it into an outdoor immersive drama and local club Dagenham & Redbridge pitched in At Dagenham & Redb…
In plays by Pirandello and Shakespeare, Jefford " who has died aged 90 " displayed incredible precision, says her co-star Barbara Jefford was an amazing force as an actor and left a profound…
As we continue to open up photographer Tristram Kenton's archive, revisit the work of one of Britain's great playwrights, Caryl Churchill, with shots of productions with Suranne Jones, Maxin…
As she publishes a moving memoir, the Corrie, Dinnerladies and West End star talks about her three-decade battle with typecasting " and almost dying of Covid-19 Shobna Gulati is speaking ab…
Netflix The horizons may be narrow in the British standup's special but nobody does this sort of material better There's something odd about watching Michael McIntyre's first Netflix specia…