David Edgar as Toad of Toad Hall | Time-loop tales | The Blockheads | Professorial absence | Remembering trigonometryThis is not David Edgar's first sortie into acting (After half a century …
With Christopher Eccleston and Rory Kinnear taking a stab at Shakespeare's thane, we look at the trouble with one of its most famous " and weirdest " momentsMacbeth is full of things that mu…
Southbank Centre to host Isabella Rossellini performing with her pet dog and Isabelle Huppert reading from the Marquis de SadeTwo celebrated European actors are taking one-woman shows to Lon…
Hackney Showroom, LondonSally Marie's highly physical work explores women's experience of their bodies with raunchy energy, tenderness and rage, but communicates less than it couldAs the #Me…
WhatsOnStage award for best new musical goes to tale of teenage boy who wanted to dress in girls' clothesEverybody's Talking About Jamie was one of the big winners at the only theatre awards…
After 50 years of writing, Edgar will revisit his radical youth in a 'conversation between my older and younger self'David Edgar has been creating lines for other people to recite for 50 yea…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London; York Theatre RoyalA big week for Bryony Lavery sees a revival of her 1998 missing child play, Frozen, and the premiere of her fine Graham Greene adaptationTh…
Luke Skywalker twerks to Nicki Minaj. A dominatrix Darth Vader struts her stuff. Film fans are packing out performances of a show that combines cosplay with comedyLights flash like laser bea…
The show​ has been packing out Australian theatres​ since 2011, when it opened in Sydney. It's now set to tour the US. The Empire Strips Back's success can be attributed in par…
Singer takes over from fellow Scot Sheena Easton as vengeful Dorothy Brock at Theatre RoyalLulu is returning to the West End stage after an absence of more than 30 years to star in 42nd Stre…
Standups say outcome of Louise Reay case could stop people talking about personal livesLeading comedians, including David Baddiel, have said the Louise Reay case, in which she is being sued …
The world's anxieties are bleeding into her personal life, but the comedian is done with political despair. Ahead of her new tour, she explains why it's time to bring something new to the ta…
After a trial run in Denver, the stage adaptation of the animated smash hits New York and a passionate fanbase is already out in force " and in costumeThe cold never bothered them anyway. On…
Ronnie Scott's, LondonThe standup and singer has stellar personality, and a few neat lines, but not all of her material lands with a London audience"If I looked at a crib sheet that much dur…
The comedian, actor and writer on the things that make him laugh the mostMaria Bamford. I was at Montreal comedy festival in 2006 and was totally intimidated by all the loud comics. I was on…
Playwright's producer urged him to write Bitter Wheat about the Hollywood mogul facing allegations of sexual harassmentDavid Mamet has revealed that he has written a play about Harvey Weinst…
The playwright, a passionate supporter of the health service, has set Allelujah! in a beleaguered Pennines hospitalAlan Bennett is to explore life in a Yorkshire hospital threatened with clo…
Barbican, LondonThe myth about a group of schoolgirls who go missing on Valentine's Day is hauntingly realised by a versatile cast and impressive special effectsI initially assumed, like mos…
Viaduct, HalifaxDeborah McAndrew adapts the classic novel about facts and feelings but comedy drowns out subtlety"Is it possible that, despite all precautions, a storybook could have got int…
Director Barrie Kosky's wild, grotesque, frenzied production resembles a cross between Mr Bean and the Hunger Games dystopiaEarly on in The Nose, two men in the audience stand up and stride …
The Matilda playwright has written a shattering solo drama that he didn't think his star would read. He talks about fear, masculinity and burying secrets"It's a really, really tough play for…
York Theatre RoyalBryony Lavery's adaptation underplays the classic novel's religious theme and focuses on the pleasure-seeking IdaBy a strange quirk of fate, Bryony Lavery's adaptation of G…
The writer recalls the anger that fuelled her early play Splendour " and reveals she is directing her rage into a drama about abuses of power in HollywoodThis is an edited extract from The S…
The playwright and screenwriter reveals how a fascination with tyrants and their wives compelled her to write SplendourSubscribe and review on Apple Podcasts or Acast, and join the discussio…
The latest incarnation of the hit musical lands at a very different time in America yet its raucous take on controversy-led TV remains prescientWhen Jerry Springer " The Opera premiered at t…