The defiant lyrics to the classic Les Misérables track are reverberating through uprisings in Hong Kong and China It has soared during an airport sit-in, united street protests and drowned …
Home, ManchesterThe thin line between loneliness and connection is made manifest in Gecko and Mind the Gap's surprising show It's apt that Gecko's new collaboration with Mind the Gap has bee…
Wyndham's theatre, LondonPatrick Marber directs Tom Stoppard's sweeping story of a Jewish family in Vienna across six decades In 2003, Tom Stoppard was asked if he would ever write a "Jewis…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterAndrew Sheridan's adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel focuses on Cathy and Heathcliff's morbid passions and has the feel of a ghost story There's an inherent, ins…
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJuliet Gilkes Romero's play about the battle to end slave-owning in the British empire grows in intrigue and tension The Whip takes a moment in British histo…
Belgrade theatre, Coventry Friends venture into danger on a rival estate armed with sassy spirit and beatbox energy " if not a clear plan " in this lively adaptation of Alex Wheatle's YA nov…
Salisbury PlayhouseEmmet Byrne is superb in this relocated update of the Spanish classic but it lacks the fire of the original Barney Norris tames Lorca's Spanish tragedy in this gentle adap…
Galway 2020 promises everything from Margaret Atwood to art with local asylum-seekers. Its organisers and artists talk about building bridges and creating a lasting legacy for Irish artists …
The star of Jett and Sin City is back on stage in Alice Birch's raw Anatomy of a Suicide. She talks about the play's emotional toll, how she unwinds and American puritanism Carla Gugino has …
The oddball standup delivers deliciously terrible, wonderful jokes as he leads the charge for alternatives to the mainstream When John-Luke Roberts scored an Edinburgh fringe success with th…
Prebble's play A Very Expensive Poison won the prize, named after the Guardian's former chief theatre critic, at the Critics' Circle awards A Very Expensive Poison, Lucy Prebble's ambitious …
Royal Court, LondonAlistair McDowall's monologue " performed by a mesmerising Kate O'Flynn " channels female experience with warmth and humour Alistair McDowall joined forces with the direct…
Former Doctor Who star will lead revival of CP Taylor's Good, produced by the new company Fictionhouse David Tennant is returning to the stage in a play that tackles the question of how sane…
Two American shows that explore adolescent anxiety have been propelled by young online communities in a digital blizzard of streams, fan art and animatics Schoolboys hunch over laptops in th…
Actor Cherrelle Skeete wept with joy when she read Temi Wilkey's debut play, which explores queerness and homophobia in the black community When Cherrelle Skeete read The High Table, she was…
Colin Jones trained as a dancer before becoming a photographer. His pictures of Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev and Tamara Rojo are on display at the North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, until 7 M…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe comedian leads us from weird to wonderful to 'the absolute worst of humanity' in his new show about social media Twitter has curdled public …
A new version of Sophocles' tragedy draws on the political turbulence in the home countries of its choreographer and performer 'I didn't recognise my own democracy. The Spanish state was rep…
After depression, the collapse of his marriage and decades of anorexia, the actor spent his 52nd birthday on a psychiatric ward. He talks about how he found his way back I was originally due…
Sadler's Wells, London An annual taster festival showcased myriad styles with mixed results. And Michael Keegan-Dolan returned with an intoxicating night way out west The annual Sampled fest…
She loved her nude scenes in the Netflix hit but the West End's Uncle Vanya gave her stage fright. The Stockport star remembers being the class clown and tracking down her tormentor Aimee L…
The acclaimed dramatist, 82, says he is too old to follow up the work inspired by the fate of his recently discovered Jewish familySir Tom Stoppard, Britain's most celebrated living playwrig…
Old Vic, London; Birmingham Rep; Riverside Studios, LondonAlan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe head an irreverent Beckett double bill that isn't quite dark enough Samuel Beckett or Eeyore? One …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonFlat insults, bland puns and painful verse let down this staging of Shakespeare's problematic play, which charges ahead without a trace of satire There is no …
The actor has channelled Bob Dylan and received an honour at just 29. Now she's finally ready for primetime Sheila Atim would not call it a shrine, exactly, but in her London flat, there is …