Bridge; Donmar Warehouse; Almeida, LondonMaggie Smith makes a triumphant return to the stage as Joseph Goebbels's former personal secretary, while Anne-Marie Duff hits the high notes "Let's …
Barbican, LondonA star-packed tribute honours the choreographer's ground-breaking approach to technique and staging The late Merce Cunningham, ever the innovator, once declared dance to be "…
Gina Moffatt's remarkable story inspired Emma Dennis-Edwards to write Funeral Flowers, a hit at last year's Edinburgh fringe. Now, the story has come full circle back to north London Three y…
Mick Jagger and his ballerina girlfriend Melanie Hamrick hosted the US premiere of their ballet, soundtracked by Rolling Stones songs "I hope you're going to enjoy this wonderful, new ballet…
The Golden Theatre, New York The Tony award winner dominates as the politician in a 2008-set work of speculative stage drama with John Lithgow as her supportive husband Remember when Hillar…
Coach & Horses pub to host new version of play based on 'brilliantly funny, sour' journalist The journalist Jeffrey Bernard would wake up, smoke in bed for 30 minutes "contemplating the …
Soho theatre, LondonThere's comedy and mystery but darker themes are under-explored in this original but tricksy meta-theatre production Anthony (Ciarán Owens) is a thirtysomething gay ma…
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The Watermill Theatre, NewburyThe arrival of the kind-hearted and introverted Parisian on the UK stage is a magical and emotional triumph of adaptation The formidable success of Amélie the …
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke turns this spirited Broadway musical into a hymn to female resilience in her exhilarating farewell production at the Donmar Anne-Marie Duff's last appear…
Birmingham RepEllam's poem about a basketball-star demi-god and his goddess-mother fighting celestial beings gets a stunning out on the stage The Half God of Rainfall tells the story of Demi…
Dancer and arts administrator who became a champion of modern dance at the Arts CouncilAs dance officer and then dance and mime director at the Arts Council in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Jane N…
Barbican, LondonSix decades of solos form an unsentimental and surprising celebration of the legendary choreographer's highly technical dance experiments On what would have been Merce Cunnin…
Almeida, LondonPatsy Ferran's Olga is one of the many admirable performances in a production by Rebecca Frecknall that fails to deliver a full Chekhovian experience When actor Patsy Ferran a…
Exclusive: American standing down in summer to concentrate on directing opera and theatre Daniel Kramer, the artistic director of English National Opera, is quitting his job after less than …
Hudson Theatre, New York A standout performance from the brooding actor is the main selling point of an 80s-set comedy drama that fails to match him A small play about big words " sex, death…
Everyman, Liverpool Nick Bagnall's ingenious revival reminds us that Sondheim's musical thriller is also a savagely political piece about injustice Forty years after its premiere, Stephen So…
It mesmerised Proust, terrified Homer Simpson and gave us the Hunchback " Guardian critics celebrate Paris's gothic masterpiece at the heart of the modern imagination As Notre Dame Cathedral…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeIn this revival of Lizzie Nunnery's debut about a family in the 19th-century Liverpool slums, misery is piled upon misery " for the audience and the characters L…
He was a rail-thin, zen-like powerhouse who electrified dance " and his pupils. As Merce Cunningham's centenary is celebrated, four disciples recall an unforgettable teacher Valda Setterfiel…
Gulbenkian theatre, CanterburyFour performers deftly bring the Saint-Exupéry story down to earth in Luca Silvestrini's comic production In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic children's sto…
For 19 years, the former Eternal star gave up everything to play housewife to her famous footballer husband. So what does it feel like to have walked out on that life and reinvented herself?…
Among the protesters heading for parliament are Noah's family and Ade Adepitan as God in a suit. April De Angelis talks about turning the biblical flood into riotous drama On Monday, a day o…
Theatre Royal, YorkImitating the Dog interrogate their own staging of the controversial novella as well as its themesJoseph Conrad's 1899 novella tells of the steamboat journey undertaken by…
Sadler's Wells, LondonFrida Kahlo meets Pina Bausch in English National Ballet's dazzling celebration of female choreographersIn 2016 Tamara Rojo, artistic director of English National Balle…