Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonPaul Ready and Michelle Terry work brilliantly to create a central relationship that feels intimate and believableCasting roles based on real-life relationship…
Whether it's cult films or the mockumentary style perfected by The Office, why do we seek discomfort from our comedies? Everyone agrees that Martin Scorsese's collaboration with Robert De Ni…
Stars of the West End's Pinter at the Pinter season pick plays by the dramatist that changed the way they thought about theatreAs a teenager I used to quote lines from The Homecoming as if t…
Considered one of playwright's greatest works, it will run in London next yearTom Hiddleston is to return to the London stage in a new production of Betrayal, considered one of Harold Pinter…
Jamael Westman, the lead actor in the West End production of Hamilton, talks to the Guardian's Iman Amrani backstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre, discussing the power of youth to make cha…
Print Room at the Coronet, London The novelist's 2005 drama opens up arguments about assisted death and the point at which life ceases to have meaningMany of the great American novelists " H…
Gate theatre, LondonThis inventive performance of Kincaid's celebrated 1988 essay has the barbed satire and bold message of the original'The thing you have always suspected about yourself th…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe cellist and choreographer present an ancient Persian love story with striking designs by Howard HodgkinLayla and Majnun fall in love, but when Layla is married off …
Playwright-director will take over from Madani Younis at the west London venue in JanuaryThe playwright and director Lynette Linton has been announced as the new artistic director at the Bus…
Olivier, LondonThere are some cracking songs in Rachel Chavkin and Anaïs Mitchell's haunting journey through the underworldThis is a show that escapes easy definition. With music, lyrics …
Staatsoper Unter den Linden, BerlinAlexei Ratmansky's reconstruction of Marius Petipa's problematic ballet raises an uncomfortable questionA quiet revolution has been under way in the ballet…
It is the 'Persian Romeo and Juliet' " a hokey old work full of paper beards, corny wedding tunes and lots of camels. So why has the great cellist teamed up with choreographer Mark Morris to…
The big-collared clown's new touring show is a galloping riot of idiocy aimed at children " and they love it. Whether they learn anything is another matterComedy for kids is on the rise. Phi…
Highly critical letter to NTW chair Clive Jones attacks lack of shows and homegrown performersMore than 200 Welsh actors have launched a strong attack on National Theatre Wales, criticising …
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThe feelings that words create, rather than their meaning, come to the fore in this quietly revealing pieceFour peaceful-looking women sit on chairs in a cramped…
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonFry's retelling of Greek myths makes for an engaging evening, but it takes Blackadder and Harry Potter to ignite the audienceHestia was the goddess of the hearth, a…
He has done politics in Bodyguard, horror in Utopia and comedy as Kevin in Motherland. Next up for Paul Ready is Shakespeare's tragedy, alongside his wife, at the GlobePaul Ready is spooked …
Bush Theatre, LondonThis initially charming and thoughtful take on a couple in trouble casts hobby-obsession as the villain of the piece Leah loves jigsaw puzzles. She loves them so much tha…
The comedian on US rapper Noname, heist-gone-wrong movies, and Inua Ellams's audacious Barber Shop ChroniclesBorn in Wandsworth, south London, in 1985, Nish Kumar got involved in comedy at D…
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonGreig shows nothing is now beyond her range while Evans's physical comedy is a delight as this short-drama season highlights Pinter's fascination with marital so…
Nottingham PlayhouseThrough Gatiss, the audience feels the agonies of Alan Bennett's tormented monarchKing George III is not mad, but he is ill. However, the porphyria from which he suffers …
Royal Opera House, LondonVisually intoxicating and beautifully danced " mostly " by the Royal Ballet, Petipa's Indian romance remains problematicIn the latest run of La Bayadère, Marianela …
Kiln, London; Orange Tree, RichmondZadie Smith's White Teeth bounds on to the stage leaving some of the novel's subtleties behind. And 30 years on, Martin Crimp's Dealing With Clair has chil…
The playwright on picking up where Jane Austen left off, being overtaken by events " and working with her partner, Samuel WestPlaywright Laura Wade, 41, grew up in Sheffield, had her first p…
I've been accused of taking a theatre role meant for ethnic minorities. Yet everyone I've met thinks I have a mixed heritageLast week I found myself at the centre of a storm, accused of appr…