Orange Tree, RichmondSelina Cadell stages an enterprising production of Congreve's convoluted restoration comedySelina Cadell is on a one-woman mission to preserve Restoration comedy. Having…
Soho theatre, LondonNeil McCormick's memoir about schoolmates-turned-rock stars is brought to raucous lifeThe story of a talented composer whose hopes of fame are broken when a local contemp…
Pershing Square Signature CenterAmy Heckerling has brought her 1995 comedy classic to New York with lively choreography but a disappointing lack of charmThe best thing about Clueless: The Mu…
Southbank Centre, LondonTim Etchells and Forced Entertainment present a mesmeric show in which a young cast consider what grownups tell them'You tell us to grow up." On a simple set of scrap…
He has spent his life dramatising America's angels and demons. As his civil rights musical returns to Britain, the playwright reveals all about revamping West Side Story for Spielberg " and …
Dynamic artistic director Benoit Swan Pouffer has grand designs for Britain's oldest dance company, from diversifying the audience to finding new choreographers"I want this company, Rambert,…
Hull TruckA sumptuous choral score is key to this slick, polished production featuring an impressive female Fagin and tightly drilled young companyThe statistics about the working poor in Th…
Old Fire Station, OxfordA masterfully written generational clash lies at the heart of this timely story rich in insight, poignancy and optimism It is a quite a coup for this bustling arts ce…
New show links HG Wells's sci-fi novel and Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation and explores climate of fear preceding the US presidential electionIt is one of the most famous radio broadcas…
Hackney Empire, LondonThis show has a dastardly villain in Jacob Peas Bogg and some spirited performances but there is nothing like its dameWriter-director Susie McKenna and composer Steve E…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonChildren are given access all areas to explore the old town hall building in this story about Britain's first female civil servant'Why does it say 'caution, caut…
Second Home, LondonDisaffection trumps dynamism in Steven Warwick and Carlos Maria Romero's site-responsive piece staged in a co-working spaceThe minimal electro beat ramps up and a gaggle o…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryA well-intentioned comedy show about female war heroes unintentionally undermines its own ambitionsWhen a panto's biggest laughs are canned, it is not a great sign.…
The late dancer and choreographer was remembered at a memorial in Harlem for the enduring influence he's had on bringing diversity to balletArthur Mitchell and Cicely Tyson didn't have much …
Programme for 2019 features array of Welsh artists amid accusations of English biasNational Theatre Wales, which has been accused of favouring English artists, has announced a 2019 programme…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonJocelyn Jee Esien and Pauline McLynn are on glorious form and bring out the glee in Marlowe's macabre classicWhen asked why she decided to make Doctor Faustus …
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonCharles Perrault meets Doctor Who in this lively production about a cockney martial-arts princess who travels through timePantomime survives by being infi…
New drama Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile looks back at the life of the playwright who wrote Rita, Sue and Bob TooA new drama is to revisit the life and early death of Andrea Dunbar, the p…
From Victorian penury to Caribbean party music, new productions at Leeds Playhouse and Northern Stage in Newcastle revisit Dickens's festive favouriteIt isn't only the ghosts of Christmases …
Traverse, EdinburghKieran Hurley's gripping Edinburgh-set two-hander confronts the economic divide in the city and the stranglehold the middle-classes have on the artsKieran Hurley's provoca…
Writer and producer of One Jewish Boy shocked by social media responseA new play about rising antisemitism that opens in a London theatre this week has become the target of antisemitic abuse…
The British playwright and performer on podcast poetry, Maya Angelou's essays and the enduring appeal of Bob Marley's Concrete JungleActor and playwright Natasha Gordon was born in north Lon…
Ustinov, BathDiana Quick and Ian Gelder star as Holocaust survivors moving from New York to Florida in this superb production of Donald Margulies's 80s black comedyFinely directed by Laurenc…
Royal Opera House, LondonIt's an unhappy Christmas for the mice again, but otherwise the Royal Ballet's Nutcracker is dreamlike perfectionIt's Nutcracker season again, and on last Monday's o…
From veteran dames to festive circus arts (and wicked queen Dawn French) the Observer's critics pick your top ticketsJill Murphy's stories have sold more than 5m copies worldwide and been ma…