Belasco Theater, New York The acclaimed playwright has used the songbook of Bob Dylan to create an overstuffed yet often transcendent 30s-set Broadway show Overstuffed, often hollow, and for…
Cast, DoncasterCompassion triumphs over prejudice in Richard Cameron's play about pit workers who form a close-harmony combo One of the stipulations of the Bechdel test, designed to measure …
A new drama " The Endz " will see pupils from Harris Academy Peckham collaborating with The Multi-Story Orchestra to give a voice to victims of knife crime It is three hours after the end of…
Leeds Playhouse The Victorian orphan is given an even greater sense of exclusion in Amy Leach's excellent production for Ramps on the Moon Brooklyn Melvin's Oliver has a ferocious roar but n…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge talked sex. Ken Loach exposed class. Amy Winehouse hit listeners in the heart. After Brexit, does British culture still inspire the same affection abroad? Europe's leadi…
Crucible Studio theatre, SheffieldTwo sisters travel back across four decades in Chloë Morris's gritty and unsentimental story of a pained relationship Difficult sisterhood appears to be …
After getting a chest infection, the actor has complained about backstage facilities for actors in older theatres The actor Britt Ekland has slammed the backstage conditions she encountered …
Barbican, London Cheek By Jowl's handsome Italian-language update of the cruel classic with Milan's Piccolo Teatro delivers a harsh verdict on political corruption When Chekhov is performed …
'What lies ahead is the past.' A Neanderthal walks us through the passage of time to predict the future using the lessons of the past Performed by Robert Beyer, written by Marius von Maye…
From Olivier's strangled fury to Ralph Fiennes' Oedipal embraces, this complex political play is extraordinarily flexible 'The tragedy of Coriolanus is one of the most amusing of our author'…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonJosh Azouz's play explores the passion between two men who go to the same synagogue but it lacks tension and tenderness 'This is a mikvah," states a character at t…
Box-office fortunes have been built on lampooning amateur dramatics' cliche and incompetence, yet these theatres have had the last laugh A popular idea of am-dram is that the play goes wrong…
Gate theatre, London Sylvan Oswald gives a dystopian twist to the French essayist's ideas on borders to explore modern gender politics This show is almost as impenetrable as its full title: …
They're inspired by Charlie Hedbo and tell jokes that would get British comedians cancelled. Our writer spends a week watching French standups How Greece's theatre staged triumph from trage…
Sadler's Wells, LondonChoreographer Crystal Pite and theatre-maker Jonathon Young combine their worlds for a riveting piece Actors speak, dancers move. In Revisor, choreographer Crystal Pite…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis update with Elaine C Smith focuses on Scotland's landowning class but struggles to make the satire funny There are sad drunks and there are happy drunks. Elaine C…
Absolutely Fabulous star shocked young people have never heard of 'cavalier' Victorian actor She was a superstar in her day: mobbed by fans, paid a fortune and one of the finest stage perfor…
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterAn asteroid is hurtling towards Earth in Alison Carr's new play, where everyone takes part in a pub quiz The local boozer might not be a bad place to wait for th…
Playwright Eduardo Machado discusses his revealing new play that looks at the relationship between the Cuban revolutionary and Celia Sánchez Fidel Castro is back in the news. Senator Bern…
'The world needs to get more Irish.' An Irish woman is splitting up with her English boyfriend who is returning home to the UK. What is the impact of the end of their union? Performed by E…
Kensington Palace, LondonLes Enfants Terribles take us inside Will and Kate's home for an immersive yet unreachable story about two women who once lived there Don't tell Will and Kate, but …
TV co-stars compete for acting prizes at this year's theatre awards, whose nominations are led by the musicals & Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof and Dear Evan Hansen Fleabag stars Phoebe Wal…
From cat brains to dismembered tongues, the teams behind theatre's bloodiest shows reveal how they made audiences shriek with horror and delight Bodies hacked to pieces, brains dribbling out…
Piccadilly theatre, London Danny Mac and Aimie Atkinson star in the schmaltzy and shallow Hollywood tale, told with a few winning songs A businessman picks up a sex worker to turn her into h…
Sophie Stone stars in Kaite O'Reilly's show which celebrates the forgotten women of the second world war with a powerful visual language Sophie Stone extends her right arm and lets her hand …