He'll be quick-witted and funny " but how can Volodymyr Zelenskiy possibly lead a country? A comedian gives his verdict on the new president and other gag-cracking politicians 'Ukraine have …
Coliseum, LondonEven Danielle de Niese's fine voice can't save ENO's out-of-sync commercial collaboration " no matter how many times they play The Impossible Dream Previous collaborations be…
Churchill's Glass, Kill and Bluebeard 'will be a real adventure', says London theatre, as full year of productions is unveiled Stories about Victorian spiritualism, the lithium-rich salt fla…
Theatre 503, LondonThe peaceful behind-the-counter romance of two young women is disturbed by the arrival of an outsider The shelves are crammed with wine bottles, colourful tins, cereal box…
Hadestown musical lands 14 nominations after Broadway transfer from London Jez Butterworth's Troubles-set family drama The Ferryman has soared high in the US's most important theatre awards,…
Minerva, ChichesterJames Nesbitt and Sheila Hancock star in Tim Firth's touching comedy about a dysfunctional group of relatives Musicals head inexorably towards big ensemble numbers, a con…
The playwright behind Kill Climate Deniers is back with another work about ecological catastrophe " and a message of hope How can chickens teach us about the great acceleration of human acti…
Pair to star in two-hander Lungs as theatre also reveals a Beckett double bill with Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming Claire Foy and Matt Smith, who starred as the Queen and Prince Philip i…
Bells and Spells casts the French star as a kleptomaniac in a performance that leaves the audience guessing In her mystifying shows, Aurélia Thierrée has crossed the stage in an upside-dow…
London PalladiumThis chatshow canter through the career and comedy loves of Humphries proved he is an unrepentant controversialist The television chatshow spread to theatre as a way of getti…
Perth theatreMorna Young's personal tale of trawlermen risking their lives for pay evokes the romance and brutal realism of the sea Margaret Thatcher's greed-is-good ethos left its mark on e…
The play reminds us that any feminism worth its salt needs to transcend questions of individual identity There has been a trend in fourth-wave feminism for exploring the stories of women ove…
Park theatre, LondonBen Alderton's bilious satire about the 2015 British general election is spasmodically entertaining but unsubtle We desperately need political satire, yet now seems an od…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe tradition-trashing dancer serves up a brilliant, table-stomping blend of experiment, absurdity and subversion We arrive at Israel Galván's fiesta when it feels a…
Shakespeare's Globe filled Westminster Abbey with a free-range assortment of famous " and dangerous " characters for this moving celebration A brawl broke out in the nave of Westminster Abbe…
G-Live, GuildfordAssisted by his life-saving chauffeur, Gilbert propels his high-octane humour with the pain of trauma When you make your name getting overheated at trivial things, what's le…
Sadler's Wells, LondonDe Keersmaeker's interpretation of Bach's suites, exquisitely played by Jean-Guihen Queyras, soars with sparkle and staminaIn 1889, a budding cellist named Pablo Casals…
Old Vic, London; Royal and Derngate, Northampton; Duchess theatre, LondonTwo Hollywood actors bring skilful, unstarry performances to All My Sons, Lucy Bailey directs a fine, unstarchy produ…
His hit 2018 play riffed on black identity and saw the actor and writer hailed as one of British theatre's most exciting voices. Now he's starring in a bold new version of Death of a Salesma…
Comic work by German composer has been reinterpreted for modern audiencesGerman composer Kurt Weill is ranked high among the best of the 20th century and his music remains popular outside th…
Darcey Bussell, former Royal Ballet principal and Strictly Come Dancing judge, turns 50 on 27 April. We look back at the career of the most famous British ballerina of her generation Continu…
A 35,000ft event space on the Chicago lakeside allows fans to explore Lin-Miranda's show and the true story of one of America's Founding Fathers If the soundtrack, the book and the app weren…
Finborough, LondonWritten during the votes for women campaign, St John Ervine's play receives its first London revival in 75 years 'The half-witted heroine has held the stage too long," said…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonA crack cast fire up this romp through Fats Waller's music, directed by Tyrone Huntley with moves by the Strictly dancer The black box of Southwark Playhouse is tr…
The comedy writer and performer on the things that make him laugh the most French and Saunders's Baywatch sketch is my favourite. It was the first VHS tape that I wrote "Do not tape over" on…