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Cliffs Pavilion, Southend The focus stays on the everyday as the standup works himself into a shrill rage. It would get repetitive if he wasn't so good at it
'I realise that this show is me …
Leeds PlayhouseThe murderer is never named in Charley Miles's furious, funny play about women in Leeds between 1975-80
With a panoramic sense of empathy, Charley Miles' heated play sees the …
The standup behind Baby Cobra found fame with her candid material on sex and pregnancy. Back with a memoir, she talks about her work ethic, the taboo of miscarriage " and performing in front…
Handle With Care, a three-week festival at Camden People's theatre, aims to contest perceptions about millennials' entitlement, fragility and offence-taking
Handle With Care, the title of a…
The American Airlines Theatre, New York
A delightful turn from the Oscar winner isn't enough to save this garbled and tiresome Tennessee Williams adaptation
The Rose Tattoo, now co-starring…
Many theatres benefit from captioned performances so that everything on stage is made clear through subtitles, says Richard LeeThank you for challenging the myth that privately purchased hea…
Theatre 503, LondonDanusia Samal's complex drama explores the double life of a young Muslim millennial heading for marriage
Zara is a British-Arab millennial who feels the strain of her doub…
The Yard, LondonIn Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus, the Northern Irish dancer embodies a group rarely explored in dance
A car revs up outside the theatre and Oona Doherty tumbles ou…
Royal Court, LondonPoet Sabrina Mahfouz uses songs, music and humour to deliver an impassioned assault on British imperialism
Passion counts for a lot in the theatre. That is proved by this …
Southbank Centre, LondonOur era of buffoonish leadership is brilliantly skewered in Forced Entertainment's mimed maelstrom of aggression
Sweaty, sad and stupidly funny, Forced Entertainment'…
The finalists of Boris Charmatz's Danse Élargie competition squared up to today's doom and gloom
There are questions about the validity of scoring art (hey, some of us have made a living…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonThis vigorously performed play confronts the country's past issues with a battle between the disgraced ex-president, Jacob Zuma, and one of his fiercest critics
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A drama competition for 200 naked people in a giant sauna? Our writer gets a sweaty taste of 'aufgass' in the Netherlands
I am standing behind a partition rope, waiting for the theatre to op…
Chichester Festival theatreSet in a London pub during an England v Germany football match, the topical take on racism and nationalism shows Roy Williams's 2002 play hasn't dated
It is unusua…
The Place, LondonLucy Guerin's show features two dancers " one clothed and one nude " and explores identity and the public and private self
Shame, power, money: so many issues and expectatio…
Traverse, EdinburghAnna Russell-Martin gives a magnetic performance as Anais, the 15-year-old resident of a care home, who dreams of reinventing herself
Anna Russell-Martin doesn't crack a s…
The comedian on the history that inspired her new podcast and her favourite new music and theatre
Josie Long began performing standup at 14 and won the BBC New Comedy award at 17. After stud…
Gate; Trafalgar Studios; Wyndham's, London A stirring Faustian tale puts actors under the moral spotlight, a revival of Joe Egg is brave but bleak, and The Man in the White Suit fades fast
M…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughOliver Emanuel's Canadian log cabin drama goes nowhere slowly
'Tis a dark and snow-stormy night somewhere in Canada. After many years of separation, a moth…
Sadler's Wells, LondonGisèle Vienne creates a mesmeric night of intrigue at a rave, while South African whirlwind Dada Masilo makes a ballet classic her own
The women are coming: dark, dang…
Within a year the 25-year-old Australian playwright will have premiered three works on main stages from Melbourne to London
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King is on a tight schedule. This year …
Royal Opera House, LondonPam Tanowitz's gloriously rich Everyone Keeps Me is performed alongside bracing and serene revivals from Merce Cunningham and Frederick Ashton
It's a tough call to s…
The Moulin Rouge, the French cabaret famous for its high-kicking cancan dancers and flesh-exposing ostrich-feather costumes, this week marks 130 years since it first opened its doors to audi…
Vaudeville, London From age six to 30, Mischief Theatre's engaging band of classmates bicker and play but rarely test the assumption that character is formed in childhood
Mischief Theatre, w…
Choreographer Jennifer Lacey explains why there is more modern art than movement in her new life-coaching piece
In the basement of Nottingham Contemporary art gallery, Jennifer Lacey fans ou…
