Vaults, LondonA mother and daughter have profound discussions about identity but this drama is still searching for its centreA Muslim mother and daughter are preparing for Ramadan when their…
Barbican, LondonPeeping Tom tackle old age with originality, warmth and humour in the second part of their eerie family-themed trilogyLast year they tackled mums, now attention turns to dad.…
'Old school' theatre producer behind successes such as Stones in His Pockets, Waiting for Godot and No, No NanetteThe image of the West End theatre producer has changed radically in the past…
The acclaimed Montreal troupe are on tour to celebrate a quarter-century of astonishing shows, performed for more than three million people around the world. See how their motley crew of acr…
As a boy, Nick Ahad idolised the wrestlers he saw on Saturday TV. Now he has revisited the sport's northern heartland in Glory, a state-of-the-nation play that captures the thrill of the rin…
The Other Palace, LondonComedy's rational surveyor of the political scene fires a centrist shot at easy targets from Boris Johnson to Jeremy CorbynThe left/right divide is no longer a useful…
Kate Prince's ZooNation commissioned to create 'uplifting story' called Message in a BottleIt is not, for some music lovers, the most obvious material for a hip-hop dance show, but the chore…
The Swedish producer's debut musical sees Juliet ditching Romeo to move to Paris. We use his hits to plot the narrativeA jukebox musical based on Swedish super-producer Max Martin's biggest …
Matthew Lopez's epic drama wins three prizes, while Marianne Elliott's production of Company is named best musicalThe Inheritance, an epic seven-hour drama about young gay New Yorkers, has b…
Theatre 503, LondonVÃctor Sánchez RodrÃguez's play stylishly shows how confrontation with the colonial past can lead to self-discoveryLiving European writers are so rarely seen on t…
Bitter Wheat " 'a black farce about a badly behaved movie mogul' " to open at the Garrick theatre, London, on 7 JuneJohn Malkovich is to star in a "farce" inspired by the Harvey Weinstein sc…
Following in the footsteps of Roald Dahl's Matilda, the book is to be adapted by the Royal Shakespeare CompanyDavid Walliams' journey from comedian to one of the most popular children's auth…
Hull TruckDementia drama and Jacobean bloodbath sit uneasily alongside each other in a reworking of King Lear during the fishing industry's dying daysThey're a hard-bitten lot, the Lear sist…
The Cherry Orchard has been given an absurdist reboot " with blood transfusions, a beach party and a bed-hopping sex maniac. And thanks to Chelsea's oligarch, it's coming to BritainOh my goo…
In 1969, a New Yorker from Martha Graham's company set up Britain's first contemporary dance school. Fifty years on, Cohan is a sage of the studio " and has fears about the artform's future'…
The Bunker, LondonThe Borderline theatre group's timely satire is well-intentioned, but its funfair setting reduces it to baggy vaudevilleThis is a prime example of what you might call theat…
Dorfman; Gate; New Diorama, LondonCate Blanchett and Stephen Dillane can't save a clunky S&M study of sexual politics, but thrills are to be had in a vivid account of poetic friendship a…
Hull Truck theatreBarrie Rutter revives Ben Benison's reworking of King Lear set in a 21st-century fishing community with action-packed successA reworking of King Lear, spliced with legends …
Artistic director Greg Doran hopes to 'reflect the nation' in boost to stage diversityThe Royal Shakespeare Company has unveiled plans to "level the playing field" for disabled actors by cas…
The star, who returns to the London stage in Ivo van Hove's production of All About Eve, began her professional theatre career in the early 90s, before rising to fame as X-Files agent Scully…
Soho theatre, LondonFive female performers are doing things on their own terms in a show that shuns spectacle and takes apart circus tricksAn acrobat named Kate takes the microphone and tell…
Vault festival, LondonHolly Beasley-Garrigan didn't want to perform a show about being a gay working-class woman, she tells her audience … that's just how arts funding worksWith anger and …
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonIn Okereke and Matt Jones's play, directed by Robby Graham, the story, song and movement are seamlessly integratedThe title suggests we're in for an evening advocati…
American Airlines Theatre, New York Sam Shepard's most popular play hits Broadway yet again but with underwhelming results True West, that drama of Cain-and-Abel family dynamics and masculin…
Mischief Theatre to start year-long residency giving it plays running at three venues at onceA theatre company that just six years ago consisted of a bunch of struggling actors playing to sp…