It started as a show that toured Vermont in a school bus. Now it's hitting the National Theatre and is bound for Broadway. We track the long, winding road of HadestownHadestown, the Orphic m…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonShifting between eerie ghost story and broad comedy, Ross Sutherland's intriguing solo show about demonic possession never quite makes its intentions clearJust a…
Anthony Ekundayo Lennon applied as 'mixed-heritage' to Talawa Theatre CompanyA theatre director who has previously described himself as white was awarded a job designed to increase the repre…
Original music by Imogen Heap features in the ambitious two-part stage playMusic from the triumphant West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been released as a new album by the G…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonIman Qureshi's award-winning play examines Islamic attitudes to same-sex relationships with grace and dignityEvery year the Papatango New Writing prize comes up wi…
Royal Court; Theatre Royal Stratford East; Hampstead, Londondebbie tucker green delivers blistering insights into racism in the west. Elsewhere, joyous teenage kicks and a gasp-out-loud deno…
The Place, LondonClod Ensemble's latest medical meditation asks audience members to monitor their reaction to the showClod Ensemble was founded in 1995 by director Suzy Willson and composer …
Crucible, SheffieldA crack ensemble delivers Kate Bowen's timely new play exploring identity and gender through female officers on their first tour of dutyLast month, the defence secretary a…
She was a rising star, but silently struggled with alcohol and panic attacks. The actor tells all about her breakdown and her hard-won recoverySheridan Smith arrives at the restaurant with a…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonDead Centre take a wrecking ball to poor 18-year-old Chekhov's first work, in this wildly playful piece about the elusiveness of meaningTake Chekhov's first play…
Prime mover in bringing international theatre to the British stageElyse Dodgson, who has died aged 73 of heart failure, helped playwrights around the world find their voice, and was a powerf…
After a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds 'frightening and debilitating' now, though, is leaving the …
The Australian standup and Radio 4 regular on the things that make her laugh the mostEddie Pepitone had this routine about auditioning for a laundry commercial where the casting agent said h…
Finborough theatre, London Six dead men do not want to be buried in Irwin Shaw's expressionist but schematic anti-war play from 1936You can applaud a play's intentions without enjoying its e…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe loose plotting of the love story is offset by performers who elevate the melodrama to mesmerising levelsLet's take a moment to appreciate the genius of Marianela…
The #MeToo movement has slowly started to have an effect on the men who've abused their position with ballet dancers but there's still a long way to goWhen Alexandra Waterbury was a student …
2 November 1951: Douglas Campbell's portrayal of Othello, his magnificent voice, his generosity, and his feeling for the words, won the dayLondon, ThursdayWe now have two Othellos in London:…
Royal Court, LondonGenerational friction, slavery laws and police protocol all come under scrutiny in a stirring three-part study of oppressionAs she showed in her plays hang (2015) and trut…
The Place, LondonBoundaries between fake and real are blurred and broken in a smart, funny show that fuses science and artFake operations that cure knee pain, empty pills that work as well a…
In retelling the story of students dismantling a colonialist statue in Cape Town, a vibrant dance-filled production carries prescience for contemporary America"Rhodes was suspended in the ai…
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe comic is on solid form as he deploys graphs, data and ruthless over-thinking to rage against life's tiny detailsChurnalism, fraudulent daytime TV, the idiocies…
In her new book, Evolved, the Strictly judge and former Royal Ballet star gives an intimate account of her career, alongside photographs of her rehearsals, performances and fashion shoots Co…
Vaudeville theatre, LondonThe standup refines his intricate tales with a note of personal poignancy for a set that will leave you drunk on its brillianceWe had no right to ask more of James …
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonTeenaged soccer players in the US suburbs laugh, gossip and fight in Sarah DeLappe's playIn Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer-nominated debut play, the Wolves are …
Sadler's Wells, LondonFire ripples through dancers' bodies in Juanjo Argues' vital new work, while David Bintley rekindles his Sun King spectacleThis double bill from Birmingham Royal Ballet…