Directing Graham Chapman in The Dog Beneath the Skin left a lasting impression on Duncan Noel-Paton I was intrigued to read Michael Billington's review of the seldom-performed The Dog Beneat…
Black Box, GalwayIn Enda Walsh's adaptation of the Max Porter novel, Murphy is riveting as a bereaved husband " and an imaginary crowEnda Walsh's plays are populated with characters coping, …
Hope Not Hate, Britain's largest anti-racism organization, undertook an investigation and campaign calling attention to racist and anti-Semitic tracts, Holocaust denial books, bomb-making ma…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonJosé Rivera's adaptation of Manuel Puig's prison-set romance is well-acted but needs more of an erotic and political chargeManuel Puig's odd-couple love stor…
Northern Stage, NewcastleWith rousing anthems and purposeful politics, this tale of Thatcher-era shipbuilders launches anew in home watersHaving bombed on Broadway, this musical by Sting abo…
Soho theatre, London The standup critiques virtue-signalling modern culture in a thoughtful set argued with a light touch'Do you guys remember truth?" Sara Schaefer is over from America to d…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonChristopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in an RSC production that moves at a lick but sometimes lacks subtletyProductions of Macbeth come th…
After a bedtime story with a giant teddy, you fly with geese and cross rickety rope bridges. Our writer steps into SomnaiImmersive entertainment is so widespread now, from the intimately dis…
He took the shonky British musical and made it a global phenomenon. As the composer celebrates his birthday with a new memoir, our theatre critic looks back at the hits " and flopsI first be…
Death is announced of a 'passionate collaborator' who choreographed innovative shows such as Enron and danced in Bourne productionsScott Ambler, the dancer who played the original Prince Sie…
Michelle Law's acclaimed play is more than just a family drama with a twistHere are a few things that I've experienced as a single Asian female. When I was two years old Pauline Hanson was e…
Arcola, London This inventive adaptation of the novel set in an ape-dominated world pokes fun at human assumptions of evolution Will Self believes the novel is doomed. But the Arcola theatre…
"The fact that more than 100 journalists were murdered is, in [large] part, to be blamed on the freedom of the press today," the Nobel-winning Peruvian author told a radio interviewer, "whic…
"Vania MasÃas vividly remembers the first time she saw acrobats somersaulting at a traffic light on a visit to her home city in 2004. She was at the peak of an illustrious career as a bal…
Dorfman, LondonFrancis Turnly's drama drills to the heart of the harsh politics and complex emotions surrounding a series of historic abductions of young Japanese peopleSometimes a play grip…
Hota, Gold CoastAustralia's funniest national treasure utterly unafraid to take the piss out of everyoneFor his first proper concert on home soil in three years, Tim Minchin had two running …
Katherine Bigelow made Strange Days ($42 million budget) more than 20 years ago. Excepting the Wachowski siblings' Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending (they got their Hollywood cred from the M…
The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez's two-part drama about young gay men in New York, opens at the Young Vic in London this month. Vanessa Redgrave and Poldark's Kyle Soller are among the cast fo…
From a 'cattle market' Inbetweeners casting to a nightmare meeting with the Coens, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Don Warrington and others recall their nailbiting experiences In 1997, Coronation Stree…
The Greek former finance minister talks about the lessons politicians could learn from Shakespeare, ahead of a lecture in LondonIs Theresa May Macbeth? Might King Lear agree with Jeremy Corb…
Yann Arnaud, who had 15 years experience, appeared to lose his grip on an aerial strap in front of a horrified crowdAn experienced Cirque du Soleil performer has died after plunging onto a s…
It's the grand slam " an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony " and Robert Lopez has done it twice. The EGOT champ and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, his wife and co-composer, talk about penning songs …
Barbican, LondonArthur Pita's take on Shakespeare and ballet is paired with Cathy Marston's masterful adaptation of a Can Themba short story in this inspired programmeWatch any Ballet Black …
Nottingham PlayhouseRamps on the Moon uses sign language and captioning brilliantly in a striking update of Timberlake Wertenbaker's historical humanist play'People who have no imagination s…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeTheresa Heskins expertly blends the political and the personal in her version of Elizabeth Robins's 1907 dramaLights go up on the dispatch boxes and mace at the …