Award-winning playwright Lucy Prebble tells how Guardian writer Luke Harding's account of the 2006 murder inspired her new dramaWhen Lucy Prebble tackled financial fraud and the collapse of …
Madhouse re:exit reflects on the impact of funding cuts and suggests that the institutional approach to care can lingerA new arts project developed and performed by autistic artists or those…
Founder member of the Old Vic company who lit up the London stage in the 1960s and 70s and starred in the TV series The Main ChanceJohn Stride, who has died aged 81, was a golden boy of the …
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendO Briain mines his public status, midlife hypochondria and the march of technology for his new show Voice of ReasonPlymouth, Dubai, Oslo " the locations of three con…
Delivered entirely in verse, Wright's coming-of-age tale Frankie Vah is set in Thatcher's Britain but the debate is as relevant as ever What happens if you love your parents but loathe their…
A fanatical folklorist has spent a lifetime cataloguing Britain's strangest rites. He picks his five favourites, from blazing barrels and sacred pies to a May Day ceremony bigger than Christ…
Her caustic White House correspondents' dinner speech will be no shock for fans of the former Daily Show contributorWhen Michelle Wolf arrived at the Edinburgh festival in 2016 she was the l…
Oh: "The dramatic photograph of an anteater approaching a glowing termite mound in the dead of night was originally considered a worthy winner of a Wildlife Photographer of the Year award. T…
'Acting is tough and she's the real thing " she's 89 and still looking forward'Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones: how we made Driving Miss DaisyQuiz: Noël Coward or Murder, She Wrote?W…
Gender politics and creative differences are explored in Joe Penhall's drama about the record industry. He shares his journey through music psychologyWhen I was 11, I wrote to George Martin …
It was the year hippy idealism gave way to riot and struggle " with protests in Paris, tanks in Prague and black power in the US. Guardian writers pick the pivotal works from that tumultuous…
His first work Bash got him excluded from the Mormon church. Now, as its three plays are revived in London with a modified script, Neil LaBute talks religion and R-rated moviesIt is common f…
Reporters and conservatives condemn jokes about press secretaryMichelle Wolf shocks media with Sarah Sanders attackEven in a nation with a long and noble history of brutal comedy roasts, the…
The president of the Association of Lighting Directors warns that a new directive could make all existing equipment obsoleteI am writing to you as the president of the Association of Lightin…
The Hawth, CrawleyThe shock-haired master of wordplay unearths some terrific one-liners in a comedy quest to revive his archaeology careerAudiences come to Milton Jones for one thing, and th…
Finborough, LondonMen openly tell rape jokes in Sarah Daniels' 1983 play, which has renewed impact in the era of #MeToo, even if this revival could be sharperWhen Trump was caught on tape jo…
The new "queens of Venice" are Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects, a practice that's been doing the work without getting starchitect status - but that could change now…
A thrillingly shifting feminist drama will send audiences out of the theatre arguing, but a plunge into postwar Soho is stiflingElla Hickson's new play is an assault on the stage. The Writer…
Octagon, BoltonLawrence Till's adaptation of Bill Naughton's short stories makes a fitting final production before the building's refurbishmentWhat is a theatre but a little world where stor…
Sadler's Wells, LondonCarlos Pons Guerra's unflinching reimagining of Beauty and the Beast could hardly be more timelyIn the six years since he founded the UK-based DeNada Dance Theatre, Car…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsFeaturing 18 tracks by the Scottish duo, this spirited show is a thing of joy. By the time I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) comes on, resistance is futileWhisper it, b…
"Worthless" books priced at up to thousands, of dollars on Amazon.com and which contain only nonsensical text have been identified as possible vehicles for money laundering by an author w…
Jackie 'Moms' Mabley was gay, black, and political " and her stage act, the focus of a new Whoopi Goldberg documentary, was a cornerstone of all standup comedyReading on mobile? Click to lis…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldAn inventive score and an intelligent script combine in this smart satire with nods to Jerry Springer: The OperaThe most provocative thing about this show is the title. Chr…
Roger Michell's film Nothing Like a Dame brings four legends together " and evokes decades of brilliant performancesSometimes the best ideas are the simplest. The wheeze of bringing together…