In her new solo show, Haley McGee values the gifts her exes gave her, while rating how much fun they were " and how good the sex wasImagine an episode of The Antiques Roadshow where the obje…
Garrick, LondonThe National Youth Theatre's urgent, gender-fluid production bubbles with intimacy, brutality and fearSpace is in such short supply in the West End that the National Youth The…
Unicorn, LondonFilskit Theatre's winter warmer for under-sixes is a cracking tale of parenting penguin-styleMy five-year-old daughter Hilda loves penguins, principally Pingu and Peso, the de…
Actor and singer who enjoyed success in many Shakespeare stage productions, West End musicals and popular TV seriesThe actor Jane Wenham, who has died aged 90, brought a delightful stage pre…
Jay appeared in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and DeadwoodHis one-man magic show was a sellout off-BroadwayRicky Jay, a magician, actor and historian of oddball entertainers who appeared in Boogie…
Actor has produced TV film of Alexander Zeldin's gritty play about homelessnessDavid Schwimmer, the actor and director best known for Friends, has taken on a less familiar role as producer o…
Sadler's Wells, LondonCurated by Khan, this celebration of classical Indian music dips into dance forms boasting symmetry, balance and beauty Hands and faces are two sorely underused body pa…
Various locations, St Helen'sThis site-specific immersive theatre piece about local women's lives across the decades inspires kindness and debateANU Productions have been talking and listeni…
The comedian and writer on her fear of flying, Adrian Mole and sniffing her cats' pawsBorn in Glasgow, Susan Calman, 44, was a lawyer before becoming a standup in 2006. She was in the Channe…
The creative industries are a boon for the country " they deserve a culture minister who has a passion for themLet me introduce you to, if you are not already familiar with, Jennie Lee. Lee …
When Roseanne Barr wrote a racist tweet, the comedian walked off the show " and 90 minutes later it was cancelled. She talks about the furore, coming out and being booed by Trump fansThe las…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Harold Pinter; Garrick; the GateThe domestic drama is especially close to home in the Globe's Scottish play. Plus, more exceptional Pinter and a joyous West End repr…
The Place, LondonIn puncturing the pomp of a wedding day, Didy Veldman also spotlights the biggest debate in ballet todayIn her new work The Knot, the Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman and he…
Home, ManchesterThough prison metaphors threaten to oversimplify this nuanced tale of sinister role-play, great performances win outWhen Mistress is out, her two maids, sisters Claire and So…
The Liverpudlian standup, podcaster and MC on the things that make him laugh the mostBill Burr's helicopter tour routine on his Netflix special. It's not just hilarious, it's also the most i…
Home, ManchesterThe playwright's prison time inspires an all-male production that is dazzling, dangerous and captivatingly queasyJean Genet understood the essence of theatre: everything is a…
Berwick Kaler, who says this year's show at York Theatre Royal is his last, promises loyal local audience a night of 'absolute rubbish'After hundreds of frock changes, decades of in-jokes, c…
Kathryn Hunter is about to play the RSC's first Lady Timon of Athens and next year the Globe is staging Richard II with a company of women of colour. Here's a look back at some of the many a…
We must open our shut-up hearts and embrace Dickens' classic tale of festive spirit overcoming social and generational divideMost writers I know aspire to be " and to be perceived as " maste…
A black actor queries an outpouring of support for Anthony Ekundayo Lennon, who was accused of taking a theatre role meant for ethnic minoritiesThere has been an outpouring of support for An…
The star of The Affair and Luther is about to take on one of her most challenging roles " playing her own grandmother in the spy drama Mrs Wilson 1.03pm GMT Ruth Wilson's latest project isn…
Live theatre, NewcastlePlaying themselves with humour, grace and honesty, a former inmate and her daughter tell their story and reveal their bond Cheryl and Abigail Byron are on adjacent cha…
The 28-year-old lead principal of the English National Ballet talks to the Guardian's Iman Amrani about his plans to make dance a human right in his home country of Mexico and elevate it as …
Suspiria leads a crop of new films that track a dance troupe along a path of mounting horror. It's no surprise " dance has age-old links to dread, delusion and deathIs dance-horror a thing r…
Theatre Royal Plymouth A daughter inherits her dad's diary and prized car in Carl Grose's tightly plotted episode of farcical intrigueThe bequests and effects of the dead are reliably dramat…