The child stars of the West End musical rock out in a band assembled by Dewey Finn, who poses as a supply teacher. What do their own teachers make of the hit show?What can teachers learn fro…
Pair will play the couple during the 2008 primaries in Hillary and Clinton with the character of Obama referred to as 'The Other Guy'Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are set to play Hillary a…
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Curve, LeicesterHareet Deol and Jay Varsani are astonishing in this adaptation of Riaz Khan's book about masculinity and identity "Growing up a young Pakistani boy in Leicester was tough," w…
Soho theatre, LondonThe Mash Report host unleashes a high-octane, self-mocking political show brimming with exasperation and angerYou can tell it's been two years since Nish Kumar's last liv…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonA mixed bill involving Acosta's Havana-based company was not so much a summing up of his 30-year career as a step forwardCarlos Acosta is celebrating 30 years as a p…
Smash hits by black British playwrights were few and far between. Now Arinzé Kene and Natasha Gordon have work in the West End " and they're changing the audiences too In 1957, Moon on a Ra…
National Theatre director says Windrush scandal and Brexit makes the production timelyAndrea Levy's celebrated novel Small Island is to be staged next year by the National Theatre, a product…
Albion Electric Warehouse, LeedsKeeping the audience on the move, Red Ladder's 50th-anniversary production stars Pauline McLynnMother Courage and Her Children is a play of perpetual movement…
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonGraham and eight previously unproduced writers present stories that capture the oddity and excess of the capital Inspired by Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz, Jame…
Arcola, LondonA cast of five take on more than 20 characters in Hal Coase's experimental adaptation of the novelVirginia Woolf's 1925 novel about a day in the life (and life in the day) of C…
Hard Brexit innuendos, frolics in fields of wheat, that strong and stable obsession … four drag queens reveal why the prime minister is camp goldSue Gives a Fuck Continue reading...
The Yard, LondonBrad Birch's play has a protagonist sharing space with huge projected images in an exploration of information overloadAfter an upsetting conversation with her dad, data analy…
The comedian and mental health advocate on why everyone should be able to get low-cost relationship counsellingLaura Jones (not her real name) and her husband live on less than £16,000 a …
Menier Chocolate Factory, London Finty Williams excels in the role first played by her mother, Judi Dench, in Hugh Whitemore's slow-burning spy storyThis slow-burning play by Hugh Whitemore …
The award-winning show about the Labour party has opened in Maryland and a Democratic congressman has found a string of parallelsThe bar is offering The Labour, "a refreshing gin-based cockt…
Dublin theatre festivalA forgotten play by Seán O'Casey inspires Anu Productions' immersive journey through a dilapidated block of flatsTwo or three return visits would be required to pie…
In Oh Come On, David Cross matches vulgarity with vulgarity but it's not the only way to mock a political horror showI'm watching David Cross, but I can't help thinking about Brett Kavanaugh…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldWilliam Golding's fable of desert-island anarchy is reinvented for the modern age in Emma Jordan's brutal, bold productionThere's a theory being pushed by the psychologist …
Soho theatre, LondonWith an abundance of eyebrow-raising anecdotes about outrageous social faux pas, the standup is terrific companyThere was louder buzz around Lou Sanders' Edinburgh fringe…
Barbican, LondonHelen Morse and a 200-strong chorus give a majestic ode to the everyday people whose stories are buried within Homer's epicAlice Oswald's 2011 poem, an excavation of Homer's …
Rose theatre, KingstonKeith Allen excels as the embittered old painter in the second of Nick Dear's two plays following the life of William HogarthThere is a palpable irony to the umbrella t…
The actor reveals deep-rooted passions as he talks about his role in Cyprus Avenue, what he learned from Samuel Beckett, Brexit and the TroublesThere is a poem by Tom Paulin called An Ulster…
Old Vic, LondonThe London diarist's long-suffering wife, Bess, takes centre stage in this laboriously well-intentioned pieceWhat are we to make of Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century diarist who …
Birmingham Rep, and touringThe now-retired inspector returns in a new story by Ian Rankin and playwright Rona MunroIn one of Ian Rankin's Rebus stories, the curmudgeonly Edinburgh detective …