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How can women or people of colour find a voice in theatre's classics when so much of the canon - written by white men - confines them to the sidelines? Meet the theatre makers who are reinve…
From José the Mexican immigrant to Achmed the dead terrorist, his foul-mouthed puppets have made him one of the richest comedians on the planet. How will the ventriloquist go down in Britai…
Industry insiders vote Guardian writers Michael Billington and Lyn Gardner top theatre critics in the UKA survey by British entertainment industry bible the Stage has voted the Guardian's tw…
Brighton festivalNoFit State's new show mixes skill, humour and physical poetry but sidelines the womenSwapping their trademark promenade-style circus for a retro seated show in a big top, N…
Comedian Alexei Sayle got heckled by his 90-year-old mother, who calls his memoirs 'a pack of lies', so it's no mystery where he gets his tireless revolutionary fury fromAlexei Say…
Park theatre, LondonThe president's war on illegal immigrants is taken to its logical conclusion " a heartening sign that dramatists are responding with something stronger than lampoonsHow d…
Corn Exchange, HaddingtonCharlie's Angels meet the Andrews Sisters in this entertaining and melodic meditation on griefYes, it is aimed at the over-eights, but Eddie and the Slumber Sisters …
National, LondonThis is an odd evening: one in which Brian Cox gives us a dramatised reading of Vladimir Nabokov's novel in a potted, two-hour version by Richard Nelson. It prompts two quest…
Her last production contained cannibalism and was staggeringly successful. Could Lessons in Love and Violence top it? We sit in on rehearsals as the revered director grapples with some Danis…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe mood grows ever darker in James Fritz's play about a young generation increasingly burdened by their wealthy eldersThe Fall opens with a glee club-style choir,…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonPlays about painters are fraught with difficulty. Either the hero preaches about art without practising it, or the Bohemian lifestyle supersedes the work. But John Lo…
The dance impresario on a tribute to his idol, Gene Kelly, his love of Tennessee Williams and why his local restaurant is a dog's delightBrought up in north-east London, award-winning choreo…
Drawn from a decade of the Manchester dance company's work, this frustrating triple bill lacks focusCompany Chameleon was founded in 2007 by two graduates of the Northern School of Contempor…
Artist and producer fight over a song in Joe Penhall's intricate new drama, a revival of Chess makes all the wrong moves, and a party of mourners lifts the spiritsThe lens through which we s…
The veteran playwright and the prolific young star, both masters of political theatre, reflect on the state of the nation " and contemporary culture " in the internet ageDavid Hare and James…
Everyman, LiverpoolCasting a woman as Othello was a brilliant move, but setting the play in the present day undermines itSince a play is a world of make-believe, gender-blind and colour-blin…
Bryan Raven adds his voice to the worry over a ban on much entertainment lighting, while Stephane Arditi says the directive can be amended. Plus letters from John Lincoln and Eleanor Levin, …
This year, Black Panther put afrofuturism in multiplexes " and there are plenty more artists of colour exploring inner and outer space, like artist and playwright Rachael YoungMore than ever…
"The fictional children of the past frolicked on the heather-clad slopes of Kirrin Island or battled the armies of evil at Hogwarts, free from the restrictions of their parents. Today, accor…
Why does the classical music industry only look to its own professionals to solve its problems? I know musical enthusiasts whose opinions are no less informed or apposite than my own and wor…
"By the mid-1950s, the civil rights movement in the US had become a major international news story. People were horrified by the brutality of Emmett Till's lynching in 1955, and by the mob v…
The writer, standup and star of Action Team on the things that make him laugh the mostEddie Murphy Raw. A kid from school gave me a pirate copy when I was 12. I waited for my parents to go t…
Everyman, LiverpoolPlaying a female Othello who has bedded Desdemona, Golda Rosheuvel casts new light on both Shakespeare and societySamuel Taylor Coleridge famously talked of Iago's "motive…
Vaudeville, LondonEdward and Freddie Fox, as a father and son, are the star turn in this stylish revival of Wilde's send-up of a money-mad societyRailing against fashionable society's overpo…
"Like Bollywood, Polish cinema has flourished" - with some titles even making the weekly top 10 at the box office - "in UK multiplexes rather than arthouses, without any help from the Britis…
