After an Edinburgh debut just 12 months ago, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow tell of the whirlwind success of their musical about Henry VIII's wivesTwelve months can be a long time, especially if …
Actors from TV's biggest show are invading UK stages this summer, from Gwendoline Christie at London's Bridge Theatre to Daniel Portman at the Edinburgh fringe Indira Varma interview: 'You h…
The playwright and activist on honouring her body, secret initiations and being happy in her 60s Born in New York, Eve Ensler, 66, premiered her play The Vagina Monologues in 1996. It has si…
The standup and writer on the things that make him laugh the most Bridget Christie. "I have rape fantasies all the time; my main one " longer sentencing!" is such a brilliant line. Continue …
Actor says Royal Shakespeare Company deal helps oil firm 'obscure reality of its activities' With its links to BP, I can't stay in the RSC | Mark Rylance One of the UK's most respected actor…
Various venues, CorkMini plays performed for solo festivalgoers are a hit " plus there's a bluffer's guide to the suburbs and a Tom Waits-esque concept album come to life The multi-disciplin…
Vaudeville theatre, LondonLev Dodin's masterly production allows the actors to truly inhabit their roles and presents a familiar play afresh We live in an age of director's theatre. But the …
Southbank Centre, LondonOsipova is elegantly wretched in Arthur Pita's horror-tinged take on a Hans Christian Andersen tale in which Death claims the life of a baby Artists often talk about …
Theatre director and playwright who spoke for those on the margins of societyThe playwright and director Philip Osment, who has died aged 66 from complications arising from pulmonary fibrosi…
Neil Hamburger is a loser, insulting B-list celebs for our amusement, yet he can be less offensive " and funnier " than certain comedy superstars 'What disease did legendary ice-cream makers…
Theatre Royal BathSaunders is a fizzy delight as the medium in Richard Eyre's revival of the Noël Coward comedy about a couple haunted by the ghost of the husband's first wife Noël Cow…
The Den will involve local communities of boroughs such as Cheetham Hill and Tameside A pop-up theatre, complete with canvas roof and cardboard seats, will be making its way across Greater M…
Soho theatre, LondonThe Saturday Night Live writer has skill but hits bum notes and wanders into incoherence at the end It takes more than a few smart routines to make a show. I left Boston …
Barbican, LondonThis adaptation of Luchino Visconti's 1969 film, performed by the Comédie-Française, is full of startling set pieces When Luchino Visconti's movie, The Damned, opened in …
Garrick theatre, LondonJohn Malkovich works overtime to squeeze depth into David Mamet's predatory Hollywood tycoon Barney Fein David Mamet's new play, we are assured, is fiction and any res…
This BBC Three comedy from Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou is full of feminist fury and gloriously daft gags. But there's only one episode so far. Can we have some more please? Comedy is n…
Eventim Apollo, LondonIn Real or Magic? the bicep-piercing endurance artist demonstrates supernatural command of his body 'The last time I performed in London, I was shut in a box for 44 day…
Royal Festival Hall, London Full of lazy, hazy nostalgia for classic romantic encounters in Italy, this picturesque show is rescued from cliche by Renée Fleming's soaring star quality 'This…
She was ruthless Ellaria in the TV epic. As she appears in a Noël Coward comedy, the actor talks about her dreams of returning to mime " and why sticking with her name may have hurt her c…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeThis nimble company has scaled Shakespeare back to suit its 12 dancers, and in Danila Marzilli they have a knockout Juliet Ballet Cymru's energetic Romeo a Julie…
Discos, homework and endless rehearsals … the four stars in the lead role in the West End musical share their diaries Dear Diary, Not only have I got to learn my lines but I also have to d…
Bush theatre, LondonNancy Medina directs a slow-burning story of a family caught between two cultures in 80s Britain As part of its policy of reviving neglected plays by writers of colour, t…
Brooke Shields, Robert Powell, Jeremy Irons and Fanny Ardant share their memories of working with the virtuoso director He was very tough but in a loving way. Franco was always wanting and e…
The Parisian theatre company is on a rare visit to the UK with Ivo van Hove's The Damned. What are the secrets of the world's oldest active troupe? Companies like nothing more than to refer …
Orange Tree, RichmondSuperb performances power the ingeniously plotted story of a young earl's marriage to the daughter of an impoverished duke The whirligig of time, as Shakespeare observed…