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In a new version of the enduring myth, Chris Bush sets the story in 17th-century London with a young woman who sells her soul
A man (it is almost always a man) strikes a deal for greatness a…
11 December 1972: on the evidence of recent shows, the musical is in dead trouble: the more one watches dancers catapulting across the stage as if fired from a cannon and leading ladies bari…
The scriptwriter and playwright, best known for penning the gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, died in London after a short illness
Barrie Keeffe, the scriptwriter and play…
Salisbury PlayhouseBrightly designed, this jaunty version of Beatrix Potter's seasonal tale boasts a scene-stealing Simpkin the cat
Beatrix Potter's book about an ailing tailor tasked with m…
New Diorama theatre, LondonBreach Theatre's hilariously heretical satire of medieval mystery plays is a celebration of queer voices and a fine alternative Christmas show
Breach Theatre works…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonJodie Prenger sings her heart out in an atmospheric revival of Shelagh Delaney's classic play about an unlucky-in-love mother and daughter
Words such as "raw" and "r…
Britain must reflect on welcoming a pro-CCP media outlet, says Jingan Young, whose new play tackles China's tightening grip on freedom of speech
I never planned to write a play about Hong Ko…
TV channel Gold announces the winners in a national competition for topical festive gags " can you do any better?
What do Donald Trump, Santa and Olivia Colman have in common? No, it's not a…
Bunker, LondonMatilda Ibini's autobiographical coming-of-age play mixes serious scenes with underpowered comedy sketches
Little Miss Burden begins as a Jackanory-style story, narrated by two…
This year, the tried-and-tested tale at London's Old Vic is up against subversive surprises at Wilton's Music Hall, where Scrooge's sister takes the lead
Charles Dickens knew he had struck g…
Bush theatre, LondonRagevan Vasan and Emily Stott star as a couple pulled apart by their backgrounds in this play by slam poet Zia Ahmed
The question of how to build intimacy across the div…
With shows such as Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Six and The Boy in the Dress, the musical is in rude health in this country " whether Broadway knows it or not
Has the British musical los…
As a new exhibition on comedians' prints and portraits opens, Harry Hill, Vic Reeves, Lolly Adefope and more talk us through their masterworks
Modern Toss on comedians-cum-artists
"If it's n…
Despite illness, co-founder appeared in shows over the summer before her death at 46
Nell Gifford, the owner and co-founder of the retro-chic Giffords Circus, has died of cancer, it has been…
Lyric theatre, LondonJumpy new student Frog overcomes his starting-school nerves in this exuberant musical adaptation of Kes Gray and Jim Field's picture books
Cats sit on mats, mules sit o…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonCraig Taylor's jumble of micro-playlets " some just a few seconds long " coalesce into a layered, comic, moving portrait of everyday life in the UK
Listening doe…
Warwick Arts Centre A cool crowd warms to the standup's animated stories, daft moves and disarming candour in Dance Like Everyone's Watching
A standup needs several qualities in their locker…
From ballet to panto via reanimated corpses, here are some of our arts photographer's finest photos of the past 12 months Continue reading...
Playhouse, LondonVisual flummery and the famous nose are dispensed with in Martin Crimp's modern take on Rostand's proxy-wooing play
This version of Edmond Rostand's play, as adapted by Mart…
Bloomsbury theatre, LondonDoc-turned-comic Kay recalls Christmases spent in hospitals " with anecdotes about peanut butter, ill-used confectionery and a blast of Spandau Ballet
'Christmas co…
London ColiseumEdward Clug strips back Shakespeare, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui riffs on Nijinsky and Wayne McGregor teams up with Manfred Thierry Mugler in this rich Russian triple bill
What do y…
Young Vic; Menier Chocolate Factory; 5-15 Sun Street, LondonDon't be fooled by the homely setting of Jackie Sibblies Drury's dazzling, disconcerting Pulitzer prize-winner
A woman is peeling …
Royal Opera House, LondonHayward gets things off to a flying start as Ninette de Valois's comic ballet makes an overdue return
Dance has a strange relationship with its past. No art form loo…
Wardrobe theatre, BristolThe cast sinks its teeth into this extremely adult seasonal mashup of Dracula, Jack and Jill and The Sound of Music
A generalised power cut delayed curtain up(metaph…
Theatres across the UK are struggling to provide the opportunities that actors and audiences needFrom the Ffwrnes in Llanelli to Eden Court in Inverness, the UK's approximately 1,200 theatre…
