UK group Darkfield's latest plane crash immersion is terrifying Melbourne. There is something very 2019 about paying a dollar a minute to experience a disaster I'm locked inside a shipping c…
A year after Liverpool Everyman's rep company collapsed, questions remain over local theatre's future The future of theatre in some of the UK's biggest cities remains under threat, regional …
Vaults, LondonZoe Lyons is a pyjama-clad deity with wrath-management issues and a retinue of doubtful angels in David Javerbaum's enjoyable comedy It began as a Twitter account, which begat …
Leeds PlayhouseDorothy turns eco-warrior, seeking justice in an unjust world, in this visually exciting production of the children's classic Check out the internet theory that Greta Thunberg…
They revel in filth and have names like Sinderella and Jack Off the Beanstalk. But is there more to X-rated panto than gross-out gags? Panto season is under way and Pinocchio is on stage in …
The playwright and director on Middle East musicals, Bob Dylan bootlegs, and walking the Earth as he thinks about playsBorn in Dublin in 1971, playwright, director and screenwriter Conor McP…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Bush; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonA new musical adaptation of David Walliams's book scores on all counts; director Bijan Sheibani makes an …
Chequer Mead, East GrinsteadAttacks on Extinction Rebellion and smashed avacado keep Dee in default pissed-off mode, but there are a few inspired moments Jack Dee speaks out of a diagonal mo…
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathHansol Jung's tale of two lonely Koreans who meet online is witty but overstuffed with ideasWe are in Seoul. Guk Minsung is a "goose father", one of those w…
Stratford Circus Arts Centre; Sadler's Wells, LondonNew works hit home as hip-hop collective Myself UK hits 10. And Indian classical dance that feels like new In front of a wildly supportive…
Matt Harrison explains how sending Puck to a seaside chippie can open Britain's eyes to his misunderstood home town A confession: I left Whitby Community College with a D in A-level English.…
Author David Walliams hopes new musical about 12-year-old Dennis can speak to everyone While the Royal Shakespeare Company's big new family musical The Boy in the Dress is, on the face of it…
Royal Opera House, LondonFrancesca Hayward sparkles in this twee revival, a luminous presence in an inconsequential story about a lifesize doll There are ballets of magical otherworldliness,…
Finborough, LondonA Welsh teenager is hailed as the second coming in this fascinating revival of Emlyn Williams' long-forgotten play This enterprising theatre struck gold in 2011 with its re…
Curve, LeicesterThe classic musical gets a bold makeover in this stylish and intimate production directed by Nikolai Foster It's not every show that comes with an endorsement from the local …
Secret location, LondonIn this immersive show we are promised a globetrotting night of drugs and sex … but are left loitering in a living room The best immersive theatre makes its audience…
Ustinov Studio, Bath Hansol Jung's play brings the distracting, confusing noise of the internet to a funny and sensitive story of lonely hearts in Seoul The internet is so fully realised in …
The Place, LondonOn their final tour, Richard Alston Dance Company take it back to where it all began with a moving survey of their 25-year history It is a season of farewells for the Richar…
The Guardian's theatre critic was at the sketch group's first show in 1960. It was the beginning of a friendship … and a satire boom that changed the world My first sighting of Jonathan Mi…
Pleasance theatre, LondonGroan-worthily unfunny jokes litter this blooper reel of a show about the last people left on Earth The second show of Sink the Pink's queer Christmas trilogy is mod…
Soho theatre, LondonKearns delivers a day-in-the-drab-life of a man with dreams, toting suburban existentialism in a style all his own Time was, I'd have bet my house against Count Arthur St…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonA resplendent cast sing the praises of self-expression in Mark Ravenhill's adaptation of the feelgood football novel The boy who defies tribal e…
Dundee RepThe Scottish comic-strip transfers to the stage in a witty show addressing cultural anxieties about belonging, driven by a rock, gospel and bhangra score It would be a stretch to c…
The polymath, who first found fame in the early 1960s in the revue Beyond the Fringe and went on to direct theatre and television plays, has died at the age of 85 Continue reading...
The theatre and opera director, television producer, presenter, writer, comic and doctor had a special interest in the human mind " and a special example of one, too Sir Jonathan Miller die…