Five years ago, breakfasting while being serenaded by a Geri Halliwell impersonator was a novelty. Now, mainstream venues are serving up drag " and LGBT venues are sufferingIt is 1pm on an u…
Theatre Royal PlymouthPhil Porter's new play about social media moderators is a bold attempt to address issues of online censorship but doesn't quite click "Click the left arrow to delete. C…
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonWorks by Marcos Morau, Fernando Melo and Caroline Finn make for an enjoyably ambitious triple bill Awakening marks only the second time that Nationa…
The comedian is neurotic, searingly honest and very funny. But has he finally learned to love himself? He talks to Eva Wiseman about his new film, tricky fathers and being a big cat Simon Am…
Whether it's Russian or simply 'northern', directors face new hurdles in the casting of 'authentic' speaking rolesWhen Scottish film star Sean Connery delivered his lines in the 1987 hit The…
The comic's new Netflix hour brings in some of her greatest themes: sex, bodies and the flouting of gendered taboos A new Amy Schumer special offers more than just a standup set. It's a stat…
Harold Pinter; Adelphi, LondonTom Hiddleston leads a fine Pinter revival, while a housewife's flights of fondant fancy fail to rise What a clever idea: to follow the triumph of Pinter at the…
With their coke-fuelled visions and weaponised guitars, these productions put a new spin on Shakespeare's tragedy Two new versions of Macbeth march to a very different beat but music pulses …
The giant housing estate has seen highs and endured lows, as captured in the new show Standing at the Sky's Edge, which has impressed those who know the place best Residents of Sheffield's P…
The Vicar of Dibley writer and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue producer on the things that make him laugh the most I produced Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell's Million Pound Radio Show. It included…
Theatr Brycheiniog, BreconKaite O'Reilly's play challenges societal expectations of deaf and disabled women and tick-box exercises in inclusivity Alfa, Beaty and Coral are three deaf and dis…
The Peaky Blinders star is appearing in Enda Walsh's staging of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers at the Barbican, London. Here's a look back at his theatre roles Continue reading...
On his way to Sean Hughes's funeral, the standup thought of a new joke " but who's to say it belongs to him? 'Went to a funeral the other day. Caught the wreath." That's my new joke. It's be…
Soho theatre, LondonNocturnal is notionally about the things keeping the standup awake at night, but this cheery set shows she has nothing to worry about Had it been assembled by a jetpack m…
Harold Pinter Theatre, LondonTom Hiddleston is the big draw and is superb in conveying unhealed emotional wounds After a brilliant season of Pinter's short plays we now get his full-length s…
Cornelius was among eight international writers to win the Windham-Campbell prize " which they didn't know they were in the running for As has almost become cliché among Australian winners …
Trafalgar Studios, London When positive discrimination appears to rob a boy of his college place, the racial pieties of America's left are exposed in Joshua Harmon's drama Joshua Harmon has …
New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion The multiracial plays of Athol Fugard …
Yang Sing restaurant, ManchesterThis rich, dreamlike play feeds body and soul as it chronicles the complex lives of migrants from China Cheung Wing is looking back over his life. He's been t…
Noel Fielding, Thom Yorke and Cumberbatch tell us why they love Letters Live, the performances of correspondence where anything can happen It's a blustery Saturday night and around 900 peopl…
The US has a rich tradition of Jewish theatre " but in the UK it's been more circumspect. Artists from Hofesh Shechter to Tracy Ann Oberman explain why I ask the Israeli-born, British-based …
Method actors were trained to take on role of Romeo or Juliet and then respond to questions "Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts," Marlon Brando once said. But for scientists, worki…
The actor turned playwright is taking his work to the UK for the first time. He talks about his Shakespeare in Love-style comedy riffing on Cyrano de Bergerac Alexis Michalik has much in com…
Walthamstow's Roger Ascham school has a superstar ex-pupil: Matthew Bourne. Now his company is putting on a show with the students " almost 500 of them It looks, at first glance, like a regu…
She conquered Strictly while still living in a bedsit. Now the dancing multi-linguist and trained engineer is making the leap into musicals " where she's planning to 'go crazy' Glamour is of…