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Finborough, LondonIn a wan year for new writing, Dawn King's play shines out like a beacon. Winner of the Papatango playwriting competition, it may display the influence of Arthur Miller's T…
Royal Exchange, Manchester Peake's play is a fierce cry for recognition of the movement that supported miners and their families and saw women occupy a coal pit in protestThere's a familiar …
Five centuries ago, the world's longest rave took place in Strasbourg " a 'plague' of dancing that was fatal for some. What caused it? Art, poetry and music of the time can provide some clue…
Noël Coward theatre, LondonThe Poldark star gives an excellent performance in a first-rate revival of Martin McDonagh's brutally funny playPoldark fans turning up to see Aidan Turner in M…
Royal Court, LondonLaura Wade's new play is highly topical: it is about the sense of entitlement to power of a privileged, wealthy, public school and Oxbridge elite. But while I'm glad to se…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldKatherine Parkinson is superb in Laura Wade's play about a woman who lives like a 1950s housewife in the 21st centuryJudy and Johnny live in a 1950s dream home. She is dres…
Pamela Carter recognised aspects of her own life in Louis's book about growing up determined to escape his French village. Now she's bringing his story to the stageWhen I was growing up in L…
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonClare Burt passes on the trademark cap to six other actors who all share the role of the pioneering director in Sam Kenyon's engaging musical tributeAs a nomadic…
London PalladiumThe Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical comes to the West End with fine acting, handsome staging and inescapable overtones of western imperialismThis 1951 R…
Arcola, LondonThere are storming performances in this play about two British Pakistani Londoners whose friendship is tested after the 2005 terror attacks'What do you see when you look at me?…
Actor leaps off stage to confront theatregoer for talking during his West End performanceRichard Griffiths, Patrick Stewart and Ken Stott may have taken umbrage at disruptive theatregoers, b…
The Yard theatre, LondonAn exercise-obsessed young woman sweats to become an online star in Joe Harbot's anarchic playA lost young woman turns her life around, exercises like mad and is tran…
Sheffield CrucibleDirector Caroline Steinbeis takes up the gauntlet by reshaping and mining Churchill's 57 fleeting scenes for less obvious meaning Scripts are both instructional and nebulou…
Bush theatre, LondonThere is tenderness and humour in Ben Weatherill's play about a young woman with Down's syndrome caught between her boyfriend and her motherThe stage is so over-filled wi…
The dancer and choreographer, who has died aged 92, had a celebrated career in theatre, television and film. Revisit some of her hits, from Yentl to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Continue reading.…
Artillery Square, WoolwichAt Greenwich and Docklands festival, Jenny Sealey directs a parade of theatre, song and aerial performance by war veteransOn a makeshift parade ground near Woolwich…
Fetishised nostalgia for a bygone era of cosy domesticity and bake-offs is dangerous, say the team behind new play Home, I'm DarlingJudy Martin is a proud, archetypal 1950s housewife. She wa…
The choreographer brought her classical training, dramatic eye and vitality to bear on hits such as Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang BangGillian Lynne, who has died aged 92,…
Choreographer and dancer who breathed new life into musical theatre with the hit shows Cats and The Phantom of the OperaSince the 1970s, British musical theatre has boasted a professionalism…
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe standup's new show, ostensibly about class in Britain, is often amusing, very likable but stubbornly middle-of-the-roadThere is so much to say about class in Br…
Greenwich and Docklands international festival, Canary WharfFrom Joe Garbett's playful table-tennis mashup to Gandini Juggling's deadpan duet, dance acts thrived in the open airOpen-air fest…
Tributes paid to the former dancer and choreographer whose West End hits included The Phantom of the OperaGillian Lynne, the leading British choreographer who created the slinky moves of Mac…
Tron, Glasgow Love-struck pop hits punctuate the regency matchmaking in this raucous, yet surprisingly faithful, all-female adaptationIt's not Jane Austen's fault. When the author published …
Jermyn Street theatre, London Boo Killebrew cleverly evokes the havoc of Hurricane Katrina through her doctor father's memories of the disaster and the imperilled characters they recallHow d…
Crystal Pite's thrilling boardroom manoeuvres are the high point in an otherwise shallow programme from these Dutch mastersA visit by Nederlands Dans Theater always promises dancing of the h…
