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Shakespeare's tragedies need to be told for today's world. It's time for their female voices to be brought to the foreWhen you're a freelance director and you're given a play to consider, yo…
Tara theatre, LondonA survivor of the 1988 uprising meets the ex-reporter to whom he leaked information " for which action he was jailed " in this vital, fascinating dramaPlays in which two …
The actor Adam Pearson has a similar condition to Joseph Merrick, whose story was told in The Elephant Man. When the BBC was remaking the biopic, he did not even get an audition. This is why…
Evelyn Glennie scores Troilus and Cressida as musicians get greater prominence in next Shakespeare season"If music be the food of love, play on" " Shakespeare knew a thing or two about the p…
The award-winning actor on playing a narcissistic writer opposite Glenn Close in The Wife, his Welsh roots, and looking like the popeJonathan Pryce has played Shakespearean heroes (Hamlet, S…
The Peacock, LondonIn their much-loved version, the company subtly point out ballet's constraints on female dancers while preserving the magic of the storyFounded in 1974 and still going str…
He dressed smart, carried a knife and wound up in jail. As his life story hits the stage, Riaz Khan reveals how, in 1980s Britain, soccer violence was very multiculturalIt wasn't so much the…
Battersea Arts Centre; Kiln; Hampstead, LondonMissing reappears three years after fire interrupted its run at the Battersea Arts Centre, while the Kiln opens with some topical grievancesThes…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAlan Ayckbourn blurs the lines as an ageing crime writer's life invades his fictionFor three of its four acts, the tone of Alan Ayckbourn's new play, his 8…
Sadler's Wells, LondonFor all her exceptional gifts, the Russian star often fails to connect convincingly with her partners in this handpicked programmeDance programmes constructed around a …
Theatre Royal, Stratford East, LondonAnya Chalotra is compelling as a 16-year-old who leads the women in her Indian village to stand up to Art Malik's sadistic, tyrannical cop Nadia Fall beg…
Ambassadors, LondonThe drama that made King's name falls flat in Rachel O'Riordan's revival starring Iwan Rheon and Paul NichollsFoxfinder starts in silence. A farmer and his wife sit at a t…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe ballet superstar plots a course from classic to modern with six pieces that evoke eeriness, desolation and giddy joyMuch is made these days of ballet dancers being …
Camden People's Theatre, LondonInspired by Vladimir Nabokov, this patience-trying piece about a prisoner awaiting execution is full of lazy surrealism and tired gamesWhen the prisoner (Greg …
Royal Court, LondonA tracksuit-clad wolf stalks a mother and son through the forest in Lucy Morrison's stunningly designed enigma of a showAn exquisite woodland shrouds the Royal Court theat…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Defanged for darker times, the cult 80s high-school revenge saga homes in on the universal agonies of growing up and outsmarting bullies'Have you had a brain …
NST City, SouthamptonAristophanes' neglected classic The Assemblymen, which proposes economic and sexual communism " is given an uneven musical updateNo fewer than seven female writers are c…
Newly found documents in the National Archives show the playwright's father John was harassed by Crown informers, which may have influenced his attitude to power and classLong-forgotten docu…
Esposito's last show, Rape Jokes, was hailed as part of a new queer-friendly, woke brand of comedy for the #MeToo era. How does she follow it up?When Hannah Gadsby's show Nanette went supern…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe doomed sisters release their inner goths in this fantastically witty, mischievous and camp musical update of their tragic livesThe lives of the Brontë siste…
It provoked tabloid fury. But this bizarre spectacle, complete with car wreck, posed tough questions about death, royals and the social order. Our writer joined the procession'Princess Diana…
Director and theatre manager held after trailer showed male and female actors dancingIranian authorities have detained two artists over a theatre production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.Shah…
The Carry On star was more than the queen of double entendre. She was very clever and camp as Christmas, with all the steel that that involves'And who are you, my darling?" Fenella Fielding …
Orange Tree, RichmondThis tale of a 17th century duke trying to make Spain great again begins strongly but falters when things get weirdThere's a whiff of Brexit about Losing Venice, which s…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAlan Ayckbourn's 82nd play, about an over-the-hill crime novelist, struggles to come up with anything new to say about creativity, fame or failureAn ageing…
