Judi Dench joins cast of A Marvellous Party to mark Coward's 1920 playwriting debut and raise money for performers' charities, while Emma Thompson features in Zoom reading of Private Lives T…
A new video podcast created by the theatre company Dante or Die explores our digital legacies. It is designed to be experienced on smartphones and using headphones. Running time: 50 minutes.…
Production featuring spectacular effects will transfer to Adelphi theatre in May London's West End theatres remain mostly shuttered due to the Covid-19 pandemic but, if the calculations are …
After her villainous role in the explosive police drama, the star is playing an isolated woman in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads and an activist in Steve McQueen's Small Axe Rochenda Sandall i…
Impresario warns theatres at point of no return as Royal Albert Hall appeals for £20m to help weather Covid Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Andrew Lloyd We…
The giant street party has been cancelled. But there are still plans to celebrate the theatre that wowed young crowds, championed black playwrights and conjured finales from Italian cuisine …
Most people in dance work freelance on punishingly low pay " and now lockdown has made things even worse. No wonder they're taking jobs elsewhere When lockdown hit in March, it didn't stop d…
Old Vic: In CameraThe Sherlock and Fleabag actor is transfixingly tender in Stephen Beresford's skilful monologue, performed against an eerie, empty auditorium Three Kings is an unusually q…
Bridge, London; Troubadour, Wembley ParkDavid Hare's explosive, first-hand coronavirus monologue, delivered by Ralph Fiennes, hits every target. And Kimberley Walsh and Jay McGuinness carry …
The award-winning performance artist tells why she has penned a libretto starring single mums for a new BBC documentary Bryony Kimmings, the award-winning British performer behind a success…
The classic tale of the gruesome twosome is presented in an unabridged theatrical reading, filmed at the Unicorn in London Watch part two: in which Mrs Twit gets a stretching, Mr Twit has a …
From the return of The Mousetrap to an abundance of monologues, theatre is making a comeback " just don't expect an interval ice-cream It is late July, and Beverley Knight is about to sing h…
Various locations, London In this immersive, socially distanced show which the audience follows on foot, an unhappy woman meets her leather-jacket-wearing guardian angel We have been instruc…
With the Edinburgh festival shelved by Covid, standups have turned a garden shed into a stage for an online extravaganza. Our writer enjoys flashes of brilliance amid a dislocating experienc…
Pun fights in boxing rings, nine-year-old standups and a 19-day joke-a-thon … anything goes in vibrant, diverse Leicester, finds our writer as she continues her comedy tour It is the home …
How Anthony Madu and his Leap of Dance Academy classmates won over the world Eleven-year-old Anthony Madu glides barefoot across an uneven concrete floor, summoning his frame into seamless t…
Bridget Christie pokes fun at Madonna, Suzi Ruffell talks smear tests and John Robins is heckled about Butlins. Our critic's first standup gig in months is a riot of joy and tension 'This is…
If planes and cinemas can be Covid-19 safe, so can theatres, says Only Fools and Horses actor Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Cast and crew members from one o…
As the playwright's Covid-19 monologue Beat the Devil reopens the Bridge theatre in London, we look back at his past plays including Skylight, The Judas Kiss and Via Dolorosa Continue readin…
Before becoming a Hollywood star, Chadwick Boseman was a playwright. Three of his collaborators remember a gifted writer and a wise, generous friend Chadwick Boseman dies aged 43 Continue re…
Brian Friel drama promises 'emotional thwack', with star joining David Threlfall and Indira Varma at the Old Vic Michael Sheen is to return to the stage in a revival of Brian Friel's Faith H…
Nora Ephron's romcom was brilliantly written and perfectly cast with an elegant score. Our chief theatre critic, who loves the film, writes a letter after seeing its stage adaptation Dear Sl…
Shakespeare at a cricket ground, a festival in a bombed-out church and park-bench drama " plus more socially distanced shows to enjoy this month August is over but there's still time to enjo…
For 15 years, the acclaimed company has been a voice of dissent. Will it finally perform in a free country? In the 15 years of its existence, the Belarus Free theatre has never had an ordina…
Despite fulfilling her brief to bring diversity to the Châtelet Theatre, the veteran director was brusquely dismissed. So what went wrong? When the British arts supremo Ruth Mackenzie was…