Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughA mother and daughter reunite and fight in Oliver Emanuel's high-octane play, but it feels rushed and remote Gareth Nicholls directed Crocodile Fever at th…
What can the arcade classic tell us about competition, friendship and failure? Jasmine Price and Nikhil Vyas found out by making a show about it Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) stirs up a nosta…
Writers including Salman Rushdie, Hari Kunzru and Slavoj Žižek say the 2019 Nobel laureate 'combines great insight with shocking ethical blindness' Olga Tokarczuk: the dreadlocked femi…
Since his 1966 debut The Hornets, the Austrian playwright and author has tested, inspired and shocked audiences 'A troubling choice': authors criticise Handke's win Olga Tokarczuk: the drea…
Fagan's debut novel, about a 15-year-old counter-culture outlaw placed in the system, has now been brought to life by the National Theatre of Scotland The actors have become wild things. The…
Soho theatre, LondonIn the hilarious persona of a millennial narcissist blessing the audience with her precious jokes, Berlant's impro-comedy is blazingly in-the-moment 'This was incredible …
Sadler's Wells, LondonConvincing struggles to find solace, choreographed by ex-Wayne McGregor dancers, are enhanced by spectacular lighting The new British-Japanese Fabula Collective arrive …
The Eton-educated, non-binary British Iraqi had always struggled with their identity, until they discovered drag. Yet the 29 year old says the performances come at a high price There is nowh…
Wyndham's theatre, London With fart jokes and skiffle songs, this Sean Foley adaptation ditches the innocence of the 1950s capitalist comedy, but has plenty of drive This is Sean Foley's ver…
The RSC has finally turned its back on BP funding after actor Mark Rylance said it is what the Bard would have wanted. But as Simon Callow points out " the playwright was hardly a model of c…
The fast-rising director talks about staging Maxim Gorky's Vassa with a last-minute lead, her passion for musicals and the joy of brain-digging in rehearsals When I meet the director Tinuke …
Barbican, LondonA gifted cast from Moscow's Theatre of Nations brings Soviet-era stories of folly and obsession to enchanting life I confess to knowing little of Vasily Shukshin (1929-74) wh…
Patrick Hamilton could never have imagined his 1938 drama would give today's world such a powerful term. A wave of revivals suggests we still have a lot to learn from its insights The term "…
TV's most relatable comic " with TV's most distinctive teeth " talks about sleeping in toilets, being 'chavvy' and how Twitter trolls drove him to therapy 'Have you ever been to Disneyland?"…
The Guardian's theatre critic reflects on why the stage remains such a vital means of distilling society We live, to put it mildly, in volatile times. No one knows for sure where this countr…
Everything I See I Swallow raises challenging questions about how we bring up girls. The women behind a new shibari show speak out A young woman is strung up above the stage, a delicate latt…
The choreographer on her new work inspired by Egon Schiele, the changing world of dance, and the allure of film-making The choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh was born in Chennai, India, in 1957…
Soho theatre, LondonThis fearless production uses intelligent humour to expose racial typecasting in the entertainment industry How diverse is theatre? Are there more roles for BAME actors …
Marina Carr's Hecuba probes a mother's grief, family secrets unravel in The Beacon and audiences are immersed in 80s LGBT+ Dublin in Faultline Questions of interpretation drive Nancy Harris'…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryPlacing Mary Shelley alongside the characters she created undermines the extraordinary power of her classic story The real-life tale behind the creation of Frankens…
New Oxford Street, LondonIn an elaborate game of hide and seek, you have to avoid the marauding undead " but the fear and the fun soon fizzle out A hand grabs my ankle and a veiny arm slips …
It's a fairytale: the young dancer in a poor Lisbon suburb who makes it to principal at a world class company. But more underprivileged children should get a chance, says the Royal Ballet's …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonBethany Tennick and Kirsty Findlay weave theatrical magic in this entrancing tale of the last child left on a remote island What an exceptionally thoughtful new mu…
Lyttelton; Young Vic, London; Chichester Festival theatreAthol Fugard's masterly apartheid drama still shocks, while compatriot Yaël Farber is transfixed by Marina Carr's lyrical Irish Lo…
Royal Opera House; Barbican, LondonThe Royal Ballet's Vadim Muntagirov and Sarah Lamb, and Boy Blue's Kenrick 'H20' Sandy, excel in otherwise laboured productions One reason critics hate awa…