With its charred plaster walls and restored mosaic flooring, the £13m rescue of the cherished London theatre has kept thrilling traces of the 2015 fire. The result is a spatial spectacula…
Theatre 503, LondonAlison Carr's tight three-hander, set in a seaside B&B, examines the relationship of a woman who has had a stroke and the daughter who cares for herSixty-something Mae…
Artistic director of west London's Bush theatre to leave for new role at UK's biggest arts centreMadani Younis, the artistic director of the Bush theatre in west London, has been named as th…
Almeida, LondonClare Barron lifts the curtain on American unease in a show packed with energy, sly satire and first-rate performancesClare Barron's prize-winning American play is the theatri…
It is one of the most breathtaking stories of disaster, abandonment and survival in mountaineering. Will a theatre version finally settle its brutal controversies?Two men are climbing up a j…
As the theatre reopens this week, Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton urge 'everyone who professes to have loved the Tricycle' to support its new name and its artistic directorI appeared in Doug …
Artist Alex Katz collaborated for more than 20 years with Paul Taylor, who has died aged 88. He remembers their quiet and once combative partnershipI remember when I first saw Paul Taylor da…
The playwright who perceives the world differently and is challenging the perceptions of disability"What is normal?" playwright Kaite O'Reilly asks during a break in rehearsals for her new p…
Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonA brutal score by Jerskin Fendrix is the driving force behind this bleakly topical reworking of Alfred Jarry's Ubu RoiSince its premiere in 1896, Alfred Jar…
Featuring Christopher Plummer as Richard III, Vivien Leigh as Viola and Charles Laughton as Bottom, Shakespeare by McBean is a volume of the photographer's shots at the RSC between 1945-62 …
Her poem Dear Mr Gove got 300k views on YouTube. Now Jess Green has written a playKat is a bushy tailed newly qualified teacher raring to start imbuing the pupils of Hurstville Community Col…
Indhu Rubasingham has overseen a rebrand for the north London theatre but her exciting programme doesn't suggest a radical break from its rich history. So why the new moniker?What's in a nam…
The Belgian director has blazed his way into the British theatre scene. Who's next? A French marathon man and an Austrian politico among othersSusanne Kennedy turns actors into avatars and m…
Actors for play's Melbourne season announced, with Paula Arundell to portray Hermione Gyton Grantley, who won a Logie award for his portrayal of the convicted murderer and drug trafficker Ca…
Influential American dancer regarded as one of the great contemporary choreographersPaul Taylor, who has died aged 88, was one of America's greatest modern dancers and choreographers. He cap…
Former artistic directors and board members call for a rethinkAs both the former artistic directors and all three previous chairs of the board, as well as 12 past board members of London's T…
She has made every theatre trip an adventure into the unknown, with a relentless urge to experiment that hasn't abated over almost 40 playsCaryl Churchill, who will be 80 on 3 September, was…
Undisclosed location, Salford Young performers deliver snapshots capturing the challenges and impacts of male behaviour in a fresh and brashly comic devised showThe venue for Oh Man " an hou…
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Olivier, LondonMarlowe's bloody tyrant and Shakespeare's banished prince both get a rare chance to strut in two very effective productionsHot on the big-sandalled …
Actor Jade Anouka prepared to play Hotspur by watching videos of boxer Nicola Adams. Adams, in turn, acted in her youth and hopes to again. They met up to talk breaking boundaries, performan…
Common Wealth is a female-led political theatre collective that aims to wrest the art form away from the elite. We joined them at rehearsals for their new show, Radical ActsEvie Manning is a…
Somerset House, LondonHofesh Shechter's dancers loom like Bedlam inmates out of the darkness. Blink nervously and they're goneAs a choreographer, Hofesh Shechter has a facility for reinventi…
The standup, actor and alter ego of Lenny Beige on the things that make him laugh the mostGoing to standup was very much an occasion back in the early to mid 80s. There weren't many clubs an…
The omnivorous and eclectic choreographer who has died aged 88, represented the last of a historic line In the world of dance, the death of choreographer Paul Taylor marks not only the end o…
South African actor who won international acclaim with the anti-apartheid dramas Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The IslandThe career of the South African actor and writer Winston Ntshona, who has d…