The comedians on their first meeting, pissing each other off, and a shared obsession with Pride and Prejudice Born in London in 1982, Cariad Lloyd is a comedian, actor and podcaster. She met…
Gaiety theatre, AyrA rosy-cheeks-and-spotty-socks kind of show full of generous laughs, Fraser Boyle's take on Aladdin also has several original innovations and a subversive streak Who need…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonAfrobeat-tinged music, an AI love interest, Elon Musk as a panto villain, and a cast who are clearly having a ball mean there is something for everyone in…
Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88 Continue reading...
The great playwright had a 60-year career in the theatre and also wrote scripts for radio and the screen " here are some of his very best With his restless imagination, Tom Stoppard showed …
Before she was a TV mainstay, Judi Love was a single mum juggling standup with care work. Now she's back on stage for a show that finds humour in past trauma: 'It's laughter that helped me',…
One of Britain's most outstanding playwrights famed for the 'hypnotised brilliance' of his prose and dialogue After the first night of his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the …
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter Tom Stoppard: a life in pictures A b…
The self-described 'bounced Czech' created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion " and always understood the ways of our world All the best dramatists extend the frontiers of d…
The questing Czech-born playwright gave us plays that explored arcadias, utopias and affecting notions of home Tom Stoppard's breakthrough play opened on a bare stage, with two characters in…
The one-act play Oh, Mary! " 'the stupidest, funniest thing possible' " to open after blockbuster run in New York What if, in the final weeks before Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the firs…
A new report suggests playwriting is in crisis after Covid, with producers retreating into safe old classics. Well, not from where I'm standing Crisis? What crisis? British Theatre Before an…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonDirector Holly Race Roughan transposes the summer tale into the darkest of winters as the fairies' feud over the stolen child leaves the snow smeared with bloo…
The Lucky Chance, FromeJoy radiates from the stage as an ensemble cast from the Emma Rice Company bring Thomas's twinkling poem to life Dylan Thomas's beautiful Christmas poem has that amazi…
Curve theatre, LeicesterA full-throttle Maria, a memorably forlorn Captain von Trapp and the carousel of classic hits make Nikolai Foster's production something to savour You know what to ex…
I can't dance. Not even a little bit. But the terrible moves my friends mock are an antidote to the racing heart and quivering breath that arrive in my more anxious moments The first time I …
White Bear theatre, LondonWriter Gary Owen stitches together glimpses of contemporary life with a spin on Arthur Schnitzler's classic that doesn't quite coalesce Gary Owen's gentle dance of …
Riverside Studios, London The madcap sci-fi tale is retold on a lavish scale, complete with in-show merch, but it never really blasts off Douglas Adams's sci-fi comedy about Earth's destruct…
My mother, Jill Freud, who has died aged 98, was a dynamic actor and producer, and the founder of one of the UK's most cherished summer rep theatres. On graduating from the Rada drama school…
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe The actor Jack Shepherd, who has died aged 85, was, in his own quiet and modest way, a Ren…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme A fresh telling of Hans Christian Andersen's story deploys circus skills and inventive design to create a memorable merworld The Little Mermaid is big b…
The classic novel is given a new spin with this festive spectacular at Sadler's Wells East following the fortunes of a fashion designer encountering ghosts of the past, present and future Al…
When the great artist saw a shocking play by Martin McDonagh about the torture of children, she asked him for more dark stories. As the vivid, extraordinary works they triggered go on show, …
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonAbigail Pickard Price's stripped-back staging conjures ghost stories, seaside dreams and Dickensian tragedy through three performers' dazzling transformations Th…
Arcola theatre, London Hanging around backstage while their chances to play Brutus and Cassius fade, two unnamed actors start to act out their own drama This is no glam…