Charing Cross theatre, LondonThere are jaunty tunes and fine performances but this musical about mummification starts to decompose halfway throughThey seem to have a penchant for musicals ab…
AvignonThomas Jolly presents the spectacular Thyestes, Milo Rau explores a real crime in La Reprise and Julien Gosselin leaves audiences in a tranceThis year's Avignon festival foregrounds o…
Founder member of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, he later helped establish classical ballet in the NetherlandsWith the death of Leo Kersley at the age of 92, one of the last links with t…
MP Andrea Jenkyns sang her own song, Bropera was born " and the ex-singer of Pigface rocked out. So did our writer want to leave or remain at the Big Brexit Party?On a stage once graced by B…
Ten times more porters than soldiers died in Africa during the first world war. But they have never been properly commemorated. Now Tate Modern is putting this right " with William Kentridge…
When Matt Lucas withdrew from the opening night of Me and My Girl, his stand-in had just two hours to prepareEvery understudy awaits their big break. Yet few replace a household name on the …
Chichester Festival theatre Jokes aplenty, catchy songs and a cleverly staged production " there's much to enjoy as Matt Lucas's stand-in, Ryan Pidgen, and Caroline Quentin shine Daniel Evan…
Old Vic, BristolScaramouche Jones, born at midnight on December 31 1899, a strange, pale, white-skinned "oyster" who popped out of his Gypsy prostitute mother in a fishmongers in Trinidad. A…
Our roundup of the week's comedy sees scrappy statements from Sarah Millican and Stewart Lee, while Peter Kay has mooted a possible return of Phoenix NightsThe week's comedy news divides nea…
The Fawlty Towers star rails against the government, the BBC and British newspapers in stage appearance for Hacked OffIt was hard to know what to expect of a solo show by John Cleese, organi…
Feanedock, National ForestA new arts extravaganza offers campfire stories, breathtaking theatre, laughing yoga and lessons on how to think like a treeStand on a hillock in Feanedock and you …
Williamson Park, LancasterLucy Jane Parkinson's D'Artagnan is equal parts swagger and vulnerability in a jolly, summery promenade productionBeing a horse, Christopher Bianchi's Planchet find…
The celebrated Welsh bass-baritone brings unique warmth and musicality to everything he sings, from Wagner to showtunes. Join him here on Tuesday 10 July at 1.30pm BST as he answers your que…
Poorer drama students face an uphill struggle, with funding cuts and rising fees. But British theatre may be the loser unless more actors from a range of backgrounds take centre stageWhen Ir…
Bristol HippodromeBirmingham Royal Ballet's heartfelt production of Frederick Ashton's comic country tale is a delightCreated in a whirlwind month of rehearsals in 1960, Frederick Ashton's L…
Aidan Turner brings swagger to the Irish Troubles, a tribute to Joan Littlewood lacks her revolutionary spirit, and there's a twist in the Globe's Winter's TaleSeventeen years after its firs…
Soho Theatre Upstairs, LondonA vivid depiction of life on an east London council estate evokes the films of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino"You will rattle the house in which you play," wr…
Best known as the acerbic Sister Michael in Channel 4's Derry Girls, the Irish actor is set to take on another comic role in Rory Mullarkey's Pity at the Royal CourtSiobhan McSweeney was bor…
· ENB recreates 10 of the sport's greatest moments· Ex-international admits dancers have tougher lifeIn pictures: Scenes from the productionWhen the English National Ballet announc…
It is the mother of all roles " and arguments still rage over its true meaning, but Mother Courage is Brecht's greatest workIs Mother Courage and Her Children an anti-war play? It's cer…
NST City, SouthamptonGbolahan Obisesan's retelling of a disaster in which more than 600 South Africans died is poignantly beautiful and sharply angryZamile Gantana takes a crate, sits in the…
The comedian, actor and star of High & Dry on the things that make him laugh the mostAfter graduating, I ran the Canal Café in Little Venice and one of the regulars was Steve Delaney pe…
Playhouse theatre, LondonThis vivid recreation of life in the sprawling refugee camp is a priceless piece of theatre that enlarges our understanding while appealing to our emotionsThis is th…
★★☆☆☆/★★★☆☆ Shakespeare's Rose theatre, YorkThis new venture offers spinning fairies in an otherwise flat Midsummer Night's Dream …
Letting your mobile ring during a theatre performance starring James Bond and Wolverine isn't wiseHere is an important lesson in modern manners: Anyone tempted to commit the ultimate sin of …