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Writer for stage, film and TV and screen whose experience as a soldier gave a passionate intensity to scripts including The Charge of the Light BrigadeSeveral of the playwrights who transfor…
Tobacco Factory, BristolMark Bruce's latest work is sensationally stimulating but perilously dizzying and hard to stomach
Mark Bruce is a fascinating, highly distinctive choreographer, his w…
New artistic director aims to attract younger audiences and promises more than 20,000 tickets for £20 or less as company reveals 2020 programme
Carlos Acosta has pledged to transform Birm…
Hampstead theatre, LondonAl Blyth's debut play explores how far into the lives of citizens a state can pry, and the effects on the snoopers themselves
After the movie Official Secrets, about…
National Theatre, LondonSpall is like a man possessed in Roy Williams' and Clint Dyer's hair-raising dramatic monologue about the grief and grievances of a working-class white male
In the se…
Theatre Royal PlymouthSix characters stalk the stage with boxes in the company's anniversary show, co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham
I Think We Are Alone marks the 25th anniversary…
Sadler's Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan's new dance work is steeped in the landscape and culture of the Dingle Peninsula
It starts out like a sinister cult: the mask of a black ram, a cur…
Birmingham RepThis adaptation of Louise O'Neill's novel has all the right intentions but offers cliches instead of real insight
This sexual assault drama is entirely void of hope. A transfer…
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterThis collection of short plays by women features vivid characters and bears the bruises of the patriarchy
Vignettes is an apt title for HER Productions' collecti…
Almeida, LondonRevived by Rupert Goold just over two years after its premiere, this subtle drama has grown with new meaning
In 2017, Rupert Goold directed a state-of-the-nation play by Mike …
Live theatre, NewcastleA trio of actors try to provide answers for teenagers' anxieties in Paper Birds' razor-sharp show
One teenager wants to know when you're ready to have a baby. Another…
Soho theatre, LondonThe Malaysian standup is strongest when he delivers adroit gags about Asian versus British stereotypes, from dogs to food allergies
Asians do this and Brits do that. That…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Actors swap multiple characters to share stories and trade blows as pints are pulled and relationships dissected in Jim Cartwright's bittersweet comic drama
The…
Taking a break from goofy sitcoms, the actor is sounding the climate-crisis alarm in Caryl Churchill's Far Away. She talks about finding hope in a violent dystopia
'You're in a world in whic…
The Pershing Square Signature Center, New York
Despite the presence of a sublime Suzanne Vega, a cheery musical adaptation of the 1969 movie about two couples is too unsure of itself
Ten tho…
Ian Shaw plays his actor father in West End play about the troubled production of Spielberg's first blockbuster
When Robert Shaw was filming the blockbuster Jaws, the actor's young son came…
Phoenix Dance Theatre's show looks back to the Zong slave ship massacre and the KÄlÄ PÄnÄ« prison torture. Three choreographers explain how they created it together
How many peopl…
Old Vic, LondonDeftly bringing out the humour in Samuel Beckett's lines, the two actors bring fresh life to a tale of imminent doom
As a blind man and his valet swap evidence of personal and…
Theatre to stage adaptation of Henry VI series, the subject of disputes over authorship
William Shakespeare almost certainly did not write Henry VI Part 1 " but it doesn't matter, the Royal …
The former RSC director had a stellar career, seeing the depth in derided plays and restoring the Histories to their rightful stage
I was saddened to hear of the death of Terry Hands at the …
We're brutal, awkward, daft and surreal, say the rising stars of Tyneside's booming comedy scene. Our writer braces herself for a gag-heavy night on the toon
Anyone who's had a night out in …
The French philosopher is making a drama out of a social, cosmic and climate crisis in his new show, Moving Earths
The philosopher Bruno Latour is a showman of difficult truths. In his stran…
In what's allegedly a record-breaking $75m deal, the Pulitzer prize-winning stage musical, with the original cast, will land at cinemas worldwide in 2021
The hit Pulitzer prize-winning music…
Gatiss to play ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley, in his version of Charles Dickens novella
He has long written Christmas ghost stories for television and now Mark G…
Summerhall, Edinburgh Annual festival of visual theatre delivers a busy mix of puppetry, silent comedy, modern dance and the hard to define
When you're used to performing to four people, an …
