As he finally achieves his ambition of playing the Scot at the 'posh' RSC, Eccleston talks about how Doctor Who almost destroyed his career, his debt to his parents and why he 'put self-hatr…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonWH Auden and Christopher Isherwood's satire on 1930s nationalism has a topical pungency but can't match the gravity of the subjectThis political satire by WH Aud…
Sadler's Wells, LondonDisabled and non-disabled performers tackle political correctness and prejudice with mischievous humourIt's always great to witness the buzz that choreographers get fro…
The comedian on his rhubarb tea addiction, the mastery of standup John Kearns, and his love of The CorrectionsTim Key, the comedian, actor, writer and performance poet, was born in Cambridge…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Canadian company takes traditional training to bold new places in works by director Emily Molnar, Crystal Pite and Sharon EyalWith the future of ballet very much up…
The actor and playwright on how performing and writing interact, and his one-man show, MistyArinzé Kene was born in Lagos in 1987 and brought up in Hackney, London, the fourth of five child…
Home, ManchesterAnnie Baker's emotion-driven play is not so much Chekhov as RD Laing-litePulitzer prize winner Annie Baker's 2009 play was staged in 2013 by London's Royal Court theatre, in …
Creator and showrunner David Simon sold The Wire to HBO as "the anti-cop show, a rebellion of sorts against all the horseshit police procedurals afflicting American television." Says actor A…
The standup, writer and television presenter on the things that make him laugh the mostPatton Oswalt's latest Netflix show is as good as standup gets. He talks about losing his wife and the …
The director of Mamma Mia!, The Iron Lady and the forthcoming Tina Turner musical will join us for a webchat at 1pm GMT on Tuesday 13 March 1.55pm GMT Not many directors have done Wagner's R…
Cast, DoncasterSharon Watson's show retraces the steps of the Caribbean passengers who landed on British shores 70 years agoIt's been 70 years " a lifetime " since 492 Caribbean men arrived …
The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon The front row are given protection for the second half of Maria Aberg's RSC staging of Webster's Jacobean tragedy " a brutal tale of female defianceThe RSC laun…
Slumber Party, at the Adelaide Fringe festival, took the familiar " a girl's bedroom " and created a weird and wonderful space For 107 hours over one weekend during the Adelaide fringe festi…
Pershing Square Signature Center, New YorkThe actor stars in an intimately staged yet strangely old-fashioned rendition of the Tony award-winning writer's playGood for Otto, David Rabe's bit…
First minister says impending shutdown of theatre group, which failed to secure Creative Scotland funding, is 'of serious concern'Nicola Sturgeon has promised to "explore all options" to kee…
First of all, argues Stuart Heritage, nobody, not even a poor old TV critic, can watch anything close to that much. Second, "Netflix is gaining a reputation as a provider that throws buckets…
Job cuts at Funny or Die suggest making money from comedy videos is harder than ever " and some blame the social-media titan. But a new wave of creators are finding ways to thriveEarlier thi…
NME (for New Musical Express), something like Great Britain's version of Rolling Stone, had a circulation in the hundreds of thousands in the days of The Beatles and Rolling Stones and throu…
Almeida, LondonPatsy Ferran proves she is one of Britain's most exciting actors in a major and wrongly neglected work by the great playwrightAs it is so rarely seen, this early play by Tenne…
Liverpool EverymanThis smart version of the rarely performed Lerner and Loewe musical subverts the dodgy gender politicsLerner and Loewe's rarely performed Paint Your Wagon is synonymous wit…
A new drama revisits the scandalous relationship between Bill Clinton and his former intern, as seen by five women in the White HouseThe relationship between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky…
Olivier theatre, LondonRory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star in a vigorous production that shows scant regard for the rhythms of the languageYou have to admire Rufus Norris's chutzpah. For o…
Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston responds to an article arguing that we might soon be seeing female tenors on the opera stage: "'Looser gender divisions in casting' may well be possible in Sh…
Sadler's Wells, LondonCrystal Pite, Emily Molnar and Sharon Eyal deliver a triple bill of new works that range from hazardous to poignantTamara Rojo's all-female programme She Said was part …
Actors to share the stage in Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Tartuffe at London's Theatre Royal HaymarketOne is known for playing an unpredictable Birmingham gangster; the other for a ru…