Her role as Arya Stark won her millions of fans but left her bullied at school. Now the 21-year-old is making her stage debut, starring in a Marvel horror " and finally getting her fingernai…
Sackler family, under scrutiny amid US opioid crisis, gave £7m last year to British institutionsThe Old Vic, the National Theatre and several other UK cultural and educational institution…
Comedian Robin Ince uses his profession as a springboard to an exploration of the human mindRobin Ince is quite possibly the UK's best-read comedian and is certainly one of the most criminal…
The stories of more than a million men who fought in the first world war for Britain " and against racism in their own ranks " have gone untold. A new theatre show sets the record straightHi…
Sherman theatre, CardiffA couple stranded in an unsettling rural landscape are haunted by the past in Meic Povey's richly poetic drama Defi (Wyn Bowen Harries) and Mair (Morfudd Hughes) are …
Installation by the stage door honours stars including Bruce Forsyth, Cilla Black and Cliff RichardAndrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled a "wall of fame" installation on the exterior of the Londo…
Soho theatre, LondonWill Adamsdale shapeshifts to play a crooner, a troubadour and a country singer in an ambitious mockumentary show'Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician…
Natural History Museum, LondonCharles Darwin's adventures aboard the HMS Beagle are told through engrossing puppetry and painterly projectionsThis is an unusual enterprise. The museum's Jerw…
After fresh and funny takes on Shakespeare and Paradise Lost, Ben Duke brings together five people who have had a stroke to tell their stories " and help them reconnect with their bodiesIt w…
Royal Opera House, London Natalia Osipova and Ryoichi Hirano are uneasy bedfellows in MacMillan's dark drama, but there's a show-stealing turn lower down the ranks in the Royal Ballet's enjo…
Young Vic; Lyttleton; Wyndham's, LondonA musical Twelfth Night flies, while David Hare's party games never take off. Plus, a masterclass from Eileen Atkins and Jonathan PryceKwame Kwei-Armah…
Albion Electric Warehouse, LeedsThe audience becomes part of the action in this tremendous promenade production of Brecht's antiwar, anti-capitalist playRed Ladder is 50 this year. For a com…
A new book helps BAME actors shrug off stereotypes and show their real talentsNeed a convincing member of a street gang for a TV show? Or a suspected terrorist for a police interrogation sce…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe theatre celebrates its 20th anniversary with three ambitious, striking, heart-lifting new commissions from Botis Seva, Julie Cunningham and Alesandra Seutin To cele…
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffBrydon beats a well-trodden path through crowd work, gags about middle-aged decline and pitch-perfect impressions"Some people have said this show is more hone…
Jubb, who has spent 15 years in the role, is to leave the arts centre that has fully reopened after its fire three years agoBattersea Arts Centre, the vibrant London venue that recently full…
Sir Nicholas Hytner says council cuts and sidelining of subjects at school add to crisisSir Nicholas Hytner has delivered alarming warnings about the health of British arts and culture amid …
Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke directs an ingenious production starring Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden, giving us Shakespeare's play twiceThere are no half measures in Josie Rourke's pr…
Omnibus theatre, LondonTumbling poetry and lively dialogue power Lizzie Nunnery's dynamic song-led show set during the Easter RisingTwo Irish men sit on opposite sides of a prison wall in Du…
York Theatre RoyalRelocated to northern England, this fast-paced panto-esque comedy is damningly relevant nowAfter the 2008 banking crisis, Dario Fo redrafted his 1974 play Can't Pay? Won't …
Birmingham Symphony HallThe veteran comic's enduring ability to captivate a crowd saves a best-of evening that occasionally descends into tediumThey're a real pop-will-eat-itself phenomenon,…
Creator of more than 60 ballets, winner of two Oscars … on the centenary of Robbins' birth, we celebrate the life and work of a towering figure in dance, cinema, television and on Broadway…
Lloyd Webber? Trump? Madonna? Don't get her started! As the goddess of the modern musical prepares to star in Company, she settles some old scores " and starts some new onesPatti LuPone is g…
Traverse, EdinburghClare Duffy's play skirts the big issues as an ecowarrior and her mother clash in a locked bathroom Opening in the week the UN has made dire warnings about climate change,…
After her standup success and podcast about death, the comic's next step was obvious: starring in a cancer-ward romcom It wasn't, I assume, the toughest decision in the history of casting. W…