West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsJoe Murphy directs an adaptation of the 2015 thriller with Jill Halfpenny playing an amateur sleuth drawn to the case of a missing womanSurveying an elliptical…
Soho theatre, LondonIn her show One-Seventeen, the Australian comedian grapples with big ideas but these absorbing stories don't fully connectIn a recent trilogy of shows, Sarah Kendall told…
Irish playwright who raged against 'Christian fascism' and explored the themes of emigration and identity in his workWhen Tom Murphy's first major play, A Whistle in the Dark (1961), was rej…
Barbican, LondonThis two-hander draws the audience right into the action in a surreal yet moving look at mortalityWe all know we will die. But we bury our heads in the sand. Lois Weaver and …
Michelle Terry is kicking off her debut season by playing Hamlet in a daring double bill that gives everyone a say about everything. Can this heresy work? We find out at rehearsalsTwo weeks …
Birmingham RepCalixto Bieito's intense theatrical collage brings together four first-rate actors and the miraculous Heath QuartetCalixto Bieito, as anyone who has seen his productions of Cal…
Gate theatre, LondonThe subversive, hard-hitting - and funny - music by composers banned by the Nazis is the real star of this charming cabaret showWhat on Earth to expect from Effigies of W…
Playwright Martin McDonagh and Ireland's president Michael D Higgins pay tribute to revered dramatist whose works include A Whistle in the DarkTributes have been paid to the influential play…
Soprano Julie Fuchs was asked to leave an opera cast because her pregnancy would 'compromise its artistic integrity'. Why are companies not looking at different kind of compromises? Four day…
The comedian played five surprise shows but audiences say he avoided discussing recent sexual misconduct allegations against himAziz Ansari has been performing his first standup shows since …
AI is the spectre haunting the workforce but theatre is exploring its creative possibilitiesSign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noon The first half of Lifestyle of t…
A bold new show retells the Euripides classic through traditional pansori, K-pop and the story of 'comfort women' in the second world warIn 1991, Ong Keng Sen directed Euripides' Trojan Wome…
Matthew Lopez's hit about group of middle-class gay men in New York will open at the Noel Coward Theatre in SeptemberA sprawling, sold-out seven-hour play about the lives of a group of middl…
He used to get cast as either a doctor or a terrorist. Now Prasanna Puwanarajah is on stage at the National, starring opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Patrick Melrose " and even writing his …
Wyndham's, LondonMichael Grandage directs a well-judged revival of John Logan's play about the artist and his assistant 'Make something new," the painter Mark Rothko urges his young assistan…
From the RSC to the ROH, Britain's most prestigious arts institutions are all by royal appointment. But as Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle, is it goodbye Royal Variety Show and hello Roya…
Lui has been criticised by Quadrant and News Corp. Would this have been the case if she wasn't black?I have something a bit creepy to confess and I'm sure I'm not the only one: before I ever…
Ustinov Studio, BathIonesco's imperfect study of a power-crazed monarch facing death is helped by a powerful performance from Alun ArmstrongIn early plays such as The Bald Prima Donna and Th…
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathAlun Armstrong rules in Ionesco's absurdist dramaIonesco's Exit the King was first performed in 1962, and the theatre of the absurd cannot boast any more pr…
We grabbed the actor and comedian for brisk interrogation just after his Friday afternoon set in the Cabaret tentHow did your set go?It was alright. It wasn't brilliant " maybe a C-plus/B-mi…
Rhona Cameron, Rachel Fairburn and Shappi Khorsandi give their verdict on the film in which Peake plays an aspiring comic in a man's world Continue reading...
Hans Christian Andersen's fables have inspired countless ballets. Few people know, however, that he was a failed dancer himself. Judith Mackrell reportsBy the time Hans Christian Andersen wa…
Choreographer and dancer who created stunning roles for his wife, Zizi JeanmaireWhen Roland Petit's Les Ballets des Champs Elysées opened its first London season in 1946, the company brough…
Ophelia and Gertrude are the chief female characters in Hamlet but many actresses have taken on the lead role itself including Asta Nielsen and Frances de la Tour' At her Peake: Maxine's sta…
Soho theatre, London Open Clasp's hard-hitting and sophisticated production shines a light on all-too invisible domestic abuseYou might meet James anywhere. In a bar, like Suzy (Christina Be…