Musical is dividing residents on island where creator Lin-Manuel Miranda spent childhood summersJavier Ortiz likes to look on the bright side in San Juan, the pretty and gritty capital of Pu…
New Diorama, LondonOrson Welles's radio adaptation of the sci-fi classic is given a new spin on stage with references to Trump and BrexitThe story of the panic induced by Orson Welles's 1938…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe French artist Olivier de Sagazan turns himself into a sculpture in this terrifying, visceral performanceOlivier de Sagazan's Transfiguration, a performance first cr…
As Ian McKellen launches a tour of 80 venues to mark his 80th birthday in May, we look back over his long and brilliant stage career Continue reading...
Chippenham community centre issues apology saying show was not as promisedTheatre-goers who went to see a pantomime that was described as "spectacularly bad" have been offered a full refund …
Playwright, director and acting teacher whose students at Rada included Sophie Okonedo, Adrian Lester and Ben WhishawiThe acting teacher and coach Jennie Buckman, who has died of cancer aged…
Newly released papers show the committee chairman's doubts in 1968 whether a prize for the Irish author would be in the spirit of the awardSamuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature i…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThe storyteller sets out to list all 20,000 of his possessions in a show that misfires despite some delightful apercus'I have a house with lots of things in it,"…
In the new show Kleptocracy, a House of Cards writer takes us back to a pivotal moment in history and shines a light on the Russian president's interior lifeThere is a bear in the woods. Vla…
Cate Blanchett has played queens, vagabonds and Bob Dylan. Now the double Oscar-winner is hitting the London stage in an avant garde work about sexual domination " and hinting at a farewell …
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup's debut show insightfully dissects the travails of long-term commitment and the tsunami of having childrenSindhu Vee has a more interesting hinterland than mo…
Birmingham RepAndy Smith and Amund Sjølie Sveen imagine a future of radical equality and freedom in a performance that comes with its own manifestoBilled as a "performed conversation", An…
Samuel J Friedman TheatreThe Oscar-winning Moonlight writer transfers his musical to a bigger venue and, while there are missteps, the songs bring the house down "Tighten up." That's what th…
Hamilton creator has bought New York's century-old Drama Book Shop with two collaborators from his hit musical, after soaring rents looked set to close itYears after writing his breakout mus…
Arts education is in crisis but theatre company Slung Low has set up a pay-what-you-can community college, offering lessons in art activism, wood-whittling and much moreOn board a double-dec…
More than 300 actors, directors and designers accuse Abbey of wreaking 'devastation'The Abbey theatre in Dublin has staged some of Ireland's greatest plays but it is now at the centre of an …
It is a stage sensation in France " not to mention Kazakhstan and Korea " but Notre Dame de Paris was panned by critics when it first hit London. Now it's back, in the original FrenchEarly o…
Hampstead Downstairs, LondonDusty Hughes's play about two mischief-making seniors living in a retirement home is stoic about ageingGiven that nearly a fifth of the UK population is aged 65 o…
Park theatre, LondonPeter Duncan gives an earnest performance in his daughter's play about a music-hall legend with a dark pastThe Dame has a tender genesis story: writer Katie Duncan was in…
BBC1's The Greatest Dancer and Channel 4's Flirty Dancing are going toe to toe for audiences. But can they fill Strictly's shoes?The new year starts with two new dance shows to fill the Stri…
For 30 years, from 1974 until its dissolution, June Whitfield served as president of the Comedy Club, an amateur theatre society founded in 1881, drawing its membership from across the Londo…
From Chicago to Sweet Charity, the American musical legend looks back at some of the key tracks in her careerChicago is all about precision. When Gwen Verdon and I did our duet Nowadays, pla…
Finborough, LondonChé Walker's enigmatic drama, set in Los Angeles, is the theatrical equivalent of film noirWritten and directed by Ché Walker, this play brings a touch of unexpected glam…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonJane Horrocks, Rupert Graves and others shine in Patrick Marber and Jamie Lloyd's bold revivals of the playwright's shorter playsOne of the great pleasures of th…
In an interview before his death last year, choreographer who was David Bowie's mentor criticises dancers and actors for 'lack of interest' in their cultural heritageHe was the influential d…