Things blew up again this week between the social media foes, with the US president calling the music legend a 'washed-up psycho' Even from a distance there is no harmony between Bette Midle…
Barbican, LondonA pair of Lion King fans blunder into a highbrow drama in Declan Donnellan's gallant update of the class-collision comedy In Francis Beaumont's 1607 burlesque, a grocer and h…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterRelocating Harold Brighouse's classic to Manchester's Hindu community, Tanika Gupta finds some sharp political parallels and a very funny new cultural context It is…
Three shows in Ipswich reflect on childhood and innocence lost " including a tribute to the 90s TV star that recalls a vanished era of light entertainment Jade Byrne gives us glasses that wi…
Soho theatre, LondonBig of voice and wide of smile, the Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist fills the room with her singing and mimicry At points in Jess Robinson's show, as you're being pinn…
Kiln, LondonSamuel Adamson's stimulating family saga revolves around A Doll's House and is inventively staged by Indhu Rubasingham The slam of the door at the end of A Doll's House was, said…
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe former king of lad comedy moseys through a delightfully meandering set about ageing, libido and 'the Strictly curse' Frank Skinner is 62, and it's remarka…
In the run-up to the Edinburgh festival we'll be picking highlights from the programme. Here's a dozen for starters, including Eddie Izzard and a ukulele comedy Assembly George Square Studio…
Barry Hines's After the Strike, about the violence at Orgreave, lay untouched for 35 years A lost play about the miners' strike by the acclaimed author behind Kes is to be performed in publi…
London PalladiumThe exhilarating comedian known for her hit Netflix series puts on an addictive night of comedy and song American comedian Rachel Bloom gets musical theatre tropes drunk and …
Arcola, LondonFemi Elufowoju Jr's engaging production puts an African American family at its centre but misses some of the play's quietly heart-wringing moments Playwright August Wilson bel…
Cocker to collaborate on new Simon Stephens play, while Lucy Ellinson to play Macbeth and Neil Bartlett to stage 24-hour work on Remembrance Sunday He's a musician, actor, broadcaster, write…
NST City, SouthamptonUpdated to include Brexit, Peter Morgan's 2013 drama about the Queen's off-the-record conversations with her prime ministers seems underpowered Peter Morgan's play about…
What's the scene like in the rehearsal room in the third week? At fringe play J'Ouvert, injury leads to a frenzy. At the RSC, the actors scour footnotes. And on Captain Corelli they're in a …
Judges laud ability to forge beautiful words from sorrows as he sees it as sign to continue Lemn Sissay has won the PEN Pinter prize, set up in memory of playwright Harold Pinter. Sissay, 52…
Sadler's Wells, London A season of 10 UK premieres opens with a cold-hearted Edith Wharton tale, Soviet struggles with Shostakovich, and an X-rated artpop class Stylish, forward-thinking, te…
Ambassador, Bradford At the pub, the night before her untimely death, the acclaimed playwright spars with her younger self in this tender adaptation of Adelle Stripe's novel Andrea Dunbar's …
Shakespeare's Globe, London Jealousy and lechery divert the idle rich in Elle While's production of the Shakespeare romcom, but well-dressed schemings lack chemistry Director Elle While plac…
Palladium, London Ballet and B-movies collide as Sergei Polunin revives Russian villain Rasputin, suffers with Nijinsky, and tackles toxic masculinity with a pineapple Once famous only withi…
Royal Theatre Stratford East; Lyttelton; Wyndham's, LondonLenny Henry and Aaron Pierre are supercharged in August Wilson's epic while Roger Allam excels as a stern Edwardian patriarch August…
London PalladiumThe bad boy of ballet's self-absorbed mixed bill is unlikely to win over his detractors There's a high threshold for bad behaviour in the arts, particularly from men. When re…
The former teen star on being born into an acting dynasty, her anger at the abortion ban in Alabama and the trouble with American cinema Martha Plimpton is an American actor who made her nam…
The US standup and Saturday Night Live writer on the things that make her laugh the most Bigger & Blacker by Chris Rock is high on the list. The "niggas v black people" joke is my favour…
Abbey, DublinA versatile cast and evocative setting bring to life Dylan Coburn Gray's award-winning script, which follows a taxi driver's journey through an eclectic Dublin family In Dylan C…
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonPrasanna Puwanarajah's edge-of-the-seat revival of Thomas Otway's 1682 tragedy looks like Blade Runner but deals in age-old themes of hypocrisy, corruption and e…