Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says Every word …
Dancer and later chief executive of Birmingham Royal Ballet who took leading roles at the Wallace Collection and then Strawberry Hill House in London Derek Purnell, who has died aged 71 of a…
Deep Azure, written by the Black Panther star in response to the death of a fellow college student, will open at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse next year A play by the Black Panther star Chadwick B…
The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his ho…
Created in 1997 and once a Victorian toilet, the 10 sq metre venue was at risk of demolition until the residents of Malvern, Worcestershire, stepped in Perched on a sign above a tiny stage d…
Tate Modern, LondonFrom filthy kissing to bullfights, fascists and drag acts, the artist who shattered visual conventions is thrillingly, forcefully alive in this illuminating show The Acrob…
As the show based on their cult TV hit goes on the road, the duo discuss haunted theatres, feeling like arthritic swans and what it was like being mobbed in Shanghai How do you make a shoppi…
Musical, which originated on Broadway in 1981, will return in 2026 with auditions taking place in cities across the world The hit musical Dreamgirls will return to Broadway with a global sea…
The Tony award-winning actor will play the marshal in a London stage adaptation of the 1952 western that won Cooper an Oscar Billy Crudup is to take on the role that won Gary Cooper an Oscar…
The annual festival, now the largest and longest-running of its kind, first took place in 2001 and has since grown to a 10-day programme drawing thousands of visitors from around the world "…
Citizens theatre, GlasgowThe people of a small Scottish town offer hope to bereaved families in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing in a moving music-theatre show What a joy to hear applause a…
Nish Kumar, Jenna Coleman and Morfydd Clark will also feature in London event for Medical Aid for Palestinians The One Day star Ambika Mod and Star Wars' Daisy Ridley are to lead the cast fo…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonDirector Tom Littler finds the comedy in the Swedish tragedian's play about how people use each other up in love and art In an interview before his production of N…
Bush theatre, LondonBoth screen stars captivate in Emma Dennis-Edwards's tale of Gen Z Erica and emotionally distant Joyce Two screen stars blaze on stage in this mother-daughter drama: Leti…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAlina Cojocaru is breathtaking, Ratmansky's music zings and Joseph Taylor gets a fantastic angry solo It's exciting when artists push boundaries, melt genres, revoluti…
In this week's newsletter: Live performances offering authentic human connection are drawing crowds to the stage, as AI-driven drivel worms its way into other creative industries Last year, …
Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a 'landmark' 50th anniversary production in London in March Fifty years after Helen Mirren originated the role, Re…
The Heartstopper star's exhilarating reboot of Euripides is the first debut play to grace the hallowed Olivier stage " but it nearly didn't happen. 'Its not in my bones,' he says Nima Talegh…
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, LondonFizzing with intelligence and featuring a catastrophic misunderstanding and a deeply symbolic cigar, this richly imagined play feels all too plausible If the…
Marylebone theatre, LondonRussian director Alexander Molochnikov's play within a play raises vital questions about the cost and creativity of exile but is undone by its own cleverness This i…
Peacock theatre, LondonStarting from a single dancer, an intricate moving patterns of limbs forms a complex weave of shifting patterns in Sadeck Berrabah's technically impressive show There'…
Ustinov Studio, BathAs a pair of wisecracking vaudevillian entertainers, the stars balance the comedy and desolation in Lindsay Posner's production This desolate masterpiece by Samuel Becket…
Through the long hot summer of 1964 I was assistant director to Giles Havergal in weekly rep at Her Majesty's theatre, Barrow-in-Furness. Its main entrance was the width of a normal doorway.…
Next summer, the star will appear in Stratford-upon-Avon first as Prospero and then alongside Helen Hunt in Chekhov's classic More than 40 years after his star-making performance as Henry V …
Lowry, Salford Reprise of Graham Duff's cult comedy delights the series' fans but there's not much here for anyone else If you are a fan of the cult BBC Three sitcom Ideal, you should immedi…