Birmingham RepEveryone has something to hide in this funny yet serious examination of cultural values, blood ties and atonementIn 2004, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti wrote Behzti (Dishonour), a produ…
Sadler's Wells, LondonIn a flaming red dress, the bold Bayón delivers an eerie show that combines kitsch with horrorWhen the impeccable Isabel Bayón first worked with flamenco maverick…
When the iconoclastic choreographer reinvented herself as a film-maker at the turn of the 70s, she opened up a new world of possibilities for her artWhen Yvonne Rainer made the switch from c…
Jemma Kennedy's experience of treatment was so bad she felt she had to write a play IVF treatment in the UK has become a money-making racket, according to a writer who found her own personal…
As he revives a play inspired by sexual predator the Marquis de Sade, the Québécois director has been forced into a rethinkOnly a few months ago, before the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke,…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London The performances match the intensity of the writing in Bryony Lavery's drama, which asks if some people are born evilFirst seen 20 years ago, Bryony Lavery's …
How do comics survive life on the road? They rob their minibars, turn roadies into bird-watchers " and read The Da Vinci CodeI once played in a tiny little school hall in a tiny little villa…
Nottingham Playhouse / Sheffield Crucible Studio Beth Steel gives a clear-eyed account of 1984 strike while Ray Castleton and Kieran Knowles focus on its legacy for womenThe rock glistens in…
The Doctor Foster star is back in London's West End, starring in Bryony Lavery's Frozen. Revisit her past stage roles, including Virginia Woolf's Orlando and as one of Caryl Churchill's Top …
Southwark Playhouse, LondonGeorgie Henley and Tyrone Huntley star in a swaggering production that seldom deepens into anything meaningfulThere's so much to be angry about in the world that t…
The Melbourne comedian's new play picks up where his film Ali's Wedding left offOsamah Sami has taken Socrates' dictum to heart: the unexamined life is not worth living.So far the Melbourne-…
Bob Carlton, who has died aged 67 after suffering from cancer, was a writer and director who shared Dennis Potter's faith in the power of popular song within drama, most famously expressed i…
Louise Reay says she faces bankruptcy if she loses case that could boil down to judge's sense of humourAn award-winning standup comedian is being sued by her estranged husband for allegedly …
A wave of comedians from Poland, Hungary, Latvia and Romania are helping to tackle stereotypes about EU immigrants in the UKIt's not easy being a Polish comedian in Brexit Britain. "I haven'…
Zenaida Yanowsky and Liam Riddick take top dancer prizes, while Lez Brotherston wins outstanding contribution awardWe know that certain stories and certain archetypes have a strong hold on t…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghTony Cownie roughs up and relocates Hannah Cowley's 18th-century play, adding vulgar jokes and rebellious energyImagine an inverted version of Cinderella, in which the…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonIn Ben Duke and Lost Dog's smart, wryly subversive and sexy dance-theatre piece, Juliet and Romeo didn't die in that tomb. Worse … they grew old togetherShakes…
In her new ABC show Nakedy Nudes, the Tasmanian-born comedian delights in taking the highbrow mantle off art history"Art history taught me I have no place in history," said Hannah Gadsby in …
Battersea Arts Centre, Royal Opera House, LondonShakespeare's lovers live on as a warring couple trapped in a romantic narrative, while a superb cast atone for a flawed Winter's TaleLost Dog…
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court; Donmar Warehouse, LondonAlone on stage for an hour and a half, Carey Mulligan is extraordinary in Dennis Kelly's gripping new play. Plus, a dream dou…
Unity theatre, LiverpoolMoral conundrums abound in this 'breath-holdingly taut' tale of an dying millionaire who asks her nurse to end her lifeCarolyn is a 68-year-old multimillionaire livin…
The writer and comedian lifts the lid on the things that make her laugh the mostBedazzled is a great comedy film. Dudley Moore really kills me. And the 2000 remake is funny as hell, too. Co…
NST City, SouthamptonThe Luftwaffe's destruction of a Spitfire factory sparks vivid tensions between local people and the state in this Southampton-set playAn expansive new arts complex in t…
Pafiliwn Bont, Pontrhydfendigaid, CeredigionNational Theatre Wales's multimedia adaptation turns Ovid's Metamorphoses into an environmental parable of cosmic scale and elemental powerThe aud…
Capitol Theatre, SydneyMamma Mia! is not a great musical, but for an audience that still holds a candle for Abba, that's beside the pointThe jukebox musical behemoth that is Mamma Mia! opene…