"Some of the best known lurid 'facts' about Jayne Mansfield, the American film star of the '50s and '60s, are based on rumour. So the directors of a new documentary about her short and scand…
Arthur Pita's show mixes eight of the Icelandic singer's tracks into a cacophony of glamour, craziness and fairytale at the Unbound festival With 12 new works, two specially commissioned sco…
Old Vic, London A row over intellectual property is at the heart of a fascinating and topical drama starring Ben Chaplin and Seána KerslakeJoe Penhall is very good at showing how a crisis…
Yes, the fallout from the sexual harassment scandal has gotten that bad: "The Swedish Academy yesterday discussed the Nobel prize and came to no decision," said the head of the panel last we…
A Taiwanese company with a national day " 21 August " and a street named after it, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre combine dance, martial arts, meditation and calligraphy in beautiful visual specta…
Viewed in a vacuum, Infinity War is meaningless. As a standalone film, it's a mess. Characters pop up for one scene and then vanish again completely. Nobody has any meaningful screen time. T…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghStewart Laing directs August Strindberg's drama about a man wheedling his way into his ex-wife's marriageIf the men's rights movement is looking for a spokesman, it co…
Martin Rowson: "After I graduated I sold a cartoon series to New Statesman titled 'Scenes from the Lives of the Great Socialists', based on hideously contrived puns on the defining dicta of …
Standups such as Varun Grover and Aditi Mittal are confronting the country's stigmas and outraging some audiencesVarun Grover, one of India's leading standup comedians, was recently performi…
London ColiseumEven Alexandra Burke can't save this lumbering story told with tracks by the Abba songwritersMusicals are the toughest of mediums, requiring the score, book and production to …
With his persona of a Raj-revering Indian, Anuvab Pal dons a Beefeater jacket and judge's wig to trace colonial legacy in the standup show The EmpireReckoning with colonialism is on the mind…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThere are strong performances in Eric Whyman's swift production but it doesn't solve the problems of the playIn 1845, the American Charlotte Cus…
Composer and lyricist Jeremy Schonfeld has created a multimedia event to pay tribute to his father's journey in AuschwitzStories of the Holocaust have been told in memoirs, novels and films.…
As part of a new video series we'd like to hear from people who love to dance and what it means to themDo you love to dance like no one's watching? Would your life feel a little empty if you…
A new production transposes Sartre's existential ennui to the trauma of Argentina's Dirty War, but where are the fireworks?"Hell is other people" says Garcin towards the end of Sartre's play…
SpongeBob, Mean Girls and Harry Potter lead the way after a record-breaking year but are the big-budget productions hampering original alternatives?A humble sponge is feeling pretty good rig…
Soho theatre, LondonKathryn Hunter is the patriarch in Hideki Noda's strange, yet ultimately moving, family tale that draws on Japanese traditionHideki Noda is a master of the theatrical end…
Angels in America and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are in the running for prizes at New York's theatre ceremonyThey won acclaim in London for their stage performances as a grownup Harry…
Dorfman, LondonNatasha Gordon's impressive debut about living between two cultures gains extra resonance in the light of the Windrush scandalThere's a key moment in Natasha Gordon's highly i…
Drama created after Tackroom Theatre teamed up with Barnardo's to conduct the largest piece of research ever done into the subjectThere's no holding back in the rehearsal room, with talk of …
A new course dissects problematic tropes surrounding rape in books, TV and film with students creating their own stage productions in oppositionWhen professors Barbara Cassidy and Shonna Tri…
Wharf 1 Theatre, SydneyHard masculinity looms large over a trans story told with empathy and wit in the world premiere of Sydney Theatre Company's productionWe already know the public Cather…
1 May 1958 The most surprising thing about the production which opened in London last night is that all the dialogue is so unmistakably Shavian, including some of the funniest linesIf My Fai…
Angela Lansbury's return to the West End stage in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit is one of London's hottest tickets but the star is still best known as TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher. Can you gu…
Comedian Michelle Wolf's speech at the White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday, in which she roasted press secretary Sarah Sanders, has divided opinion. While Sean Spicer described th…