A new play about autism has sparked a row by using an inanimate figure pulled by strings in the central role, while the other characters are played by humansThere are some ideas that should …
The story of a sound engineer recording effects for an Italian horror film is coming to the Donmar Warehouse. It's not a gorefest, say its director and writerThe first thing you see when you…
A new project is looking at how choreography can improve urban engineering, but there has long been a profound relationship between cities and danceIn the crowded conventillos (shared teneme…
Having been repeatedly told that he looks like David Tomlinson, Miles Jupp now finds himself playing the mildly aristocratic character actorThere is something unnerving about feeling that so…
DanceEast, IpswichThe dramatic aerial swimming and plaintive soundtrack of Cousins's celebrated 2012 work Within Her Eyes is revived for this intriguing programme of duetsWithin Her Eyes, cr…
Birmingham Repertory theatreJoe Penhall's play about a young black patient caught between two clashing white doctors is incendiary, intellectually rich and ever topicalWhen Blue/Orange was f…
Derby theatre; Barbican; Hampstead, LondonMalorie Blackman's bestseller leaps off the stage in a fine new adaptation. Plus, Chekhov without the samovars and 2018's Pulitzer prize winnerIt is…
Leeds PlayhouseKiza Deen excels in green's heart-wrenching one-woman play about the killing of a black schoolboyA son and brother dies as a consequence of "something important, not no random…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonFrom their half-baked moves to a fine display of stressful yoga, Figs in Wigs delight in making a virtue of their flawsOften Onstage begins at the end, opening o…
The actor shone as brightly in theatre as he did on film, helping to create modern classics from Billy Liar to Joe Egg, and playing the first Hamlet at the National's Southbank homeBecause h…
Celebrated actor who rose to fame in the 'kitchen sink' era before evolving into one of the screen greats of the postwar period, has diedAlbert Finney, who forged his reputation as one of th…
The What Would Beyonce Do? standup on the things that make her laugh the mostSister Act. Or Booty Call, a really obscure film with Jamie Foxx in it. It's about two guys that are trying to ha…
When one critic hailed the company's immersive show 'game of the year', founder Felix Barrett explored video games' non-linear storytelling. Now he spies a new frontier for the stageThere is…
Chapter, CardiffA damaged Carmarthen family are shaken by a newcomer in this smart and superbly acted riff on the American classicIf Amanda Wingfield and her children had lived on the coast …
Stage director Anthea Williams walked away from one of Sydney festival's biggest shows crushed. 'How disability is understood affects me every day of my life' "How could this creature think …
The London LibraryA cast of two do their best to breathe cohesion into a play full of sex, shrieks and floating eyes … but without a vampire in sightGiven that Bram Stoker researched his 1…
Vault festival, LondonThe ethereal star " as seen in an exuberant drag act by Tom Lenk " becomes a spirit guide in this wry show about the role movies play in our livesExuberantly strange an…
Kenneth Branagh graduates from player to playwright this week for All is True, in which he plays an ailing Bard. But which big-screen Shakey is the greatest?Despite its hey-nonny-nonny reput…
Leeds Playhouse This portrait of a family devastated by a random stabbing lands its blows with a heavy thudIn 2008, random was a sharp retort to the stereotypical "urban" image of soaring kn…
Ross, who has died aged 40, left two new plays " The Shy Manifesto and The Good Landlord " which are full of compassion and dark comedyThe news last month that the playwright Michael Ross ha…
The Manipulate festival in Scotland has surreal square dances, puppetry without puppets and jaw-dropping human landscapesIn between shows at the Manipulate festival, a veteran arts producer …
Royal Opera House, LondonFrom Aletta Collins' refreshing abstraction to Calvin Richardson's human piñatas, this is just what the Royal needsThe musicians of the London Sinfonietta are in …
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonDyer and Freeman excel as gunmen in The Dumb Waiter and Jamie Lloyd's staging of A Slight Ache, with John Heffernan and Gemma Whelan, is a revelationThe season o…
Sherman theatre, CardiffEvery emotion is tangible as Elgan Rhys's play about a 30-something gay couple races to a violent climaxWoof is a triumph for the Sherman theatre. In Elgan Rhys's per…
Orange Tree, RichmondThis unsettling portrait of a world and a relationship in crisis breezes through 80 scenes in 75 minutesRose Lewenstein's play triggers all kinds of associations. Since …