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Whose Line Is It Anyway? made her a household name. But, more than 30 years on, does the queen of improv also think it held her back? She talks about ambition, sexism and her lucky escape fr…
A vaudeville thriller set around a Dublin newspaper in 1973 uses knockabout humour to parallel modern-day geopolitics
'General swearing and delight" is playwright Michael West's winning stag…
LA Dance Project In Benjamin Millepied's piece I Fall, I Flow, I Melt, mostly performed to Bach, the dancers sparkle like sun on the ocean
On the edge of the Los Angeles Arts District, the h…
Audience members give their verdict on the musical version of the 1985 hit movie, which has premiered in Manchester ahead of a West End transfer
Fans of 1985 pop culture phenomenon Back to t…
Until her death in a freak accident, the 'radical and shocking' Isadora Duncan transformed dance. Now her feminist free spirit struts the stage again
'You'll have to excuse me, I'm just tryi…
Pasadena Playhouse, Los AngelesThe actor brings out the dark humour in Zeller's modern classic about a man with dementia, fluctuating from absurdity to despair in a heartbeat
It is more tha…
Bridge; Olivier, London; Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonCloned siblings cast fleeting shadows in a vivid Caryl Churchill revival, while Lesley Manville dazzles in an unwieldy revenge drama…
Royal Opera House; Peacock theatre, LondonJacqueline du Pré's life story is translated into a powerfully affecting ballet by Cathy Marston, while Kate Prince defies the odds with a refugee …
Gielgud, LondonDavid Mitchell makes a rollicking stage debut as the Bard in this bawdy adaptation of Ben Elton's BBC series
Of all the sitcoms to be turned into a stage show, Upstart Crow is…
Viaduct theatre, HalifaxThis adaptation of JM Barrie's 1901 romcom doesn't always hit the mark, but it roars to the sweetest conclusionTo some readers, the name Quality Street may conjure ga…
Broadway opening was met with about 100 demonstrators, frustrated with a perceived mishandling of a #MeToo controversy
The opening night of Belgian auteur Ivo van Hove's gritty reimagining o…
Dundee RepTitle-winning coach Jim McLean is played with raging mastery by Barrie Hunter in a two-hander that pulls some punches
He was the manager described by one player as a "football perv…
Prolific character actor on stage and screen, from Shakespearean classics to Friday Night Dinner and CasualtyAlthough she became one of the most loved and reliable of character actors on sta…
Broadway Theatre, New York
Ivo van Hove's striking new take on the much-loved romantic musical brings sharpness and show-stopping choreography to the table
It is nearly impossible to take on…
The Indigenous artist Yolanda Bonnell says criticism should 'come from a place of knowledge'. We asked Guardian critics for their views
When Yolanda Bonnell's play Bug opened in Toronto last…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe English National Ballet's luminous lead principal here creates her own show, ranging from Frederick Ashton to Arvo Pärt and two superb short films
It's impossible …
Kiln, LondonAntoinette Nwandu's powerful absurdist urban tragedy sees two black homeless men " cowed by the ever-present threat of police brutality " pursue their own American dream
Antoinet…
Peacock theatre, London A compelling cast pour their hearts into Kate Prince's jukebox tale of civil war, trafficking and three siblings separated as refugees
A hip-hop dance show set to the…
Viaduct theatre, HalifaxShakespeare meets Richard Curtis in the play that gave its name to the chocolates, carried by boisterous performances and sweet-wrapper chic
As the new artistic direc…
The former Peep Show star felt right at home playing a lily-livered journalist in Michael Winterbottom's film Greed. He talks about marriage, capitalism " and Armageddon
'I find nuclear war…
The stage version of Günter Grass's 1959 novel is set to open in London " with its 'unbearable' protagonist and tales of Nazi collaboration, it's as controversial as ever
Every audience lov…
By hiring a diverse range of dancers, the directors of Complexions Contemporary Ballet are working to change tired stereotypes
When Jillian Davis is on stage, it's hard to watch anyone else.…
Rufus Norris rebuffs Downton creator Julian Fellowes' claim that NT is in a cultural bubble
Rufus Norris, the director of the National Theatre, has taken aim at a suggestion he is in a "left…
Bridge theatre, London Roger Allam plays a father with multiple versions of the same son in a drama that feels like an early noughties Black Mirror
Caryl Churchill wrote A Number in 2002, wh…
The Other Palace, LondonThe soaring joys and plunging agonies of adolescence are treated with humour and heart in this refreshing arrival from Broadway
'There's never been a better time in h…
