Soho theatre, LondonAllen's amiable routines about gay and working-class stereotyping foreground his abundant skills as a raconteurIf Tom Allen weren't already hosting a primetime Saturday n…
Playwright Barney Norris will collaborate with the Booker prize-winning author on a production opening in Northampton in 2019Twenty-five years after it was made into an Oscar-nominated film,…
Tributes paid to acclaimed actor who had been appearing in the Donmar's production of The Way of the WorldThe Donmar Warehouse in London has announced the sudden death of the actor Alex Beck…
"She matured as an artist in the 1950s, in the heyday of 'experimental art'. Her disobedient aesthetic sense helped her to become one of the first British admirers of Jackson Pollock. With P…
As Maxine Peake takes the mic to play a club comic in Funny Cow, here are five movies that capture the lacerating, soul-baring world of live comedyThere's something so intimate, exposing and…
Phoenix theatre, LondonKander and Ebb's show about crime and celebrity is faithfully recreated but is beginning to resemble an animated corpseIf this Kander and Ebb musical feels as if it ha…
Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Despacito is the most viewed YouTube video of all time, with more than 5bn views, but temporarily disappeared from the site and had its hold image replaced by a…
UK record labels enjoyed a 10.6% surge in earnings in 2017 to £839m, thanks to the digital popularity of a new generation of artists including Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Dua Lipa and Stormzy.…
Theatre 503, LondonJohn Fitzpatrick's play about a family with a wonky moral compass swings between all-out farce and truth-telling dramaIt is possible to really enjoy a play without ever qu…
"JRR Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin, his tale of a beautiful, mysterious city destroyed by dark forces which the Lord of the Rings< .em> author called 'the first real story' of Middle-ea…
Michelle Terry in lead male role, as theatre pursues her pledge for democratic, gender-blind castingThe first experiment in democratic casting by Shakespeare's Globe has led to its artistic …
Scandinavia's king of crime turns the tragedy into a deliciously oppressive page-turnerThe Hogarth Shakespeare project invites modern novelists to reimagine some of his most celebrated plays…
Artistic director Indhu Rubasingham explains how, after its £7m facelift, the theatre will give a platform to 'stories we don't hear'In the six years since Indhu Rubasingham was appointed…
The dance titan has returned to his home country, and classical dance, after years spent reshaping the art form in EuropeAt the age of 68, choreographer William Forsythe finds himself coming…
Company Three devised a play to examine intimacy, relationships and social pressure for young people, from their own point of viewPutting teenage life on stage can be tricky, particularly wh…
Theatre gala organisers apologise for 'serious error' in leaving the influential director out of this year's In Memoriam segmentOrganisers of the Olivier awards have said they will rename fu…
Director says changing main character's gender allows show to explore women's lives todaySwapping the gender of the lead character in a new West End production of the Stephen Sondheim musica…
Outfits worn by Susannah York, Patrick Stewart and Sinéad Cusack will also be listed on eBay to raise money for the Royal Shakespeare Company's costume workshopA red floor-length coat sport…
After playing corrupt cops and tortured barristers in TV shows like Line of Duty and Unforgotten, Bonnar is returning to the theatre " in a dystopian drama about replacing a dead childMark B…
"Don't worry Hugh. There will be no further operas by me that you will ever have to sit through again. I'm done with the genre. Going to leave it my more talented contemporaries and younger …
Barbican, London There are shades of Casualty as Cheek By Jowl's briskly ingenious production confines the entire action to a hospitalHow do you give unity to Pericles? It has a rambling nar…
An immersive dance performance in virtual reality, Celestial Motion is inspired by the imagery of solar physics. Choreographed by Alexander Whitley, the interactive experience uses 360 filmi…
Polka, LondonRosen's epic is dished up for the stage in an adaptation that stirs in his poems about fried eggs and baked potatoesAll kids loves cake but Wilfred, aged four, is mad for it. Wi…
Three members of the secretive committee that selects the winner of the Nobel prize for literature have resigned from the jury in protest at how it has handled the sexual harassment allegati…
Exclusive: exhibition looks back on London cultural centre's legacy through 50 years of archive material An innovative new exhibition at London's Southbank Centre gives visitors a performer'…