Royal Court, LondonMulligan is a joy to watch as she brings her expressive powers to bear in Dennis Kelly's flawed but compelling one-handerCarey Mulligan has had quite a week. First she sho…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghThe West Bank's nightly curfews, checkpoints and pipe bombs make for gallows humour in this defiant comedy that gives a voice to the voicelessYour average Mark Tho…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsIn this adaptation of Lisa Genova's bestselling novel, it's the subject rather than the staging that moves the emotionsBest known from the 2014 movie and Julia…
Ingmar Bergman saw the sumptuous period drama as his masterpiece, the movie he should be remembered by. We ask: would he enjoy the stage version? At the age of 64, flushed with international…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterKendall Feaver's striking debut pits a daughter who wants to give up medication against the mother who wishes to keep her safeWhen Anna (Norah Lopez Holden) was sev…
Will Young stars as new band leader character in a production promising 'subversive anarchy'It is a story about speaking up, daring to be different and rebelling against a badly-tanned, powe…
The comic's first recorded special in 10 years is a sharp combination of social commentary and self-analysis deftly covering race, politics and relationshipsIn a comedy landscape with rapidl…
An early one-act play from the late Pulitzer prize-winner is being performed for the first time, hinting at the great playwright he would later becomeSam Shepard didn't stay long at Mt San A…
The comic, singer and actor, performing in the UK for the first time in seven years, will answer your questions at 1pm GMT on Monday 19 February 3.00pm GMT Sandra Bernhard webchat " post you…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonRobert Hastie's excellent revival of Gill's 2001 play about class, sex and divided loyalties brings out its poetryThe intersection of class and sex has long fascinate…
Actor who took the role of Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, the groundbreaking 1956 play by John OsborneThe actor Kenneth Haigh, who has died aged 86, was the original Jimmy Porter in Joh…
Taking over secret locations around the city, your enjoyment of the interactive work by Alone will depend on how much you're willing to surrenderAs a shrieking Pollyanna pops a balloon in my…
Performers in the experiential show Sleep No More allege that they were sexually assaulted by patrons, raising concerns about the vulnerability of actorsLast week, Buzzfeed published an arti…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe ballerina brings an illusion of spontaneity to the choreography while mining a wealth of emotion from this gothic ghost story's fantastical plotFrancesca Hayward…
They've stormed the Reichstag, turned terrorism into absurd comedy and asked their audiences for answers. Meet five theatre-makers grappling with crises across the continent.By Daniel Boffey…
Soon to be seen in Dark River, a bleak picture of a farming family at loggerheads, the actor talks people-puzzles, #MeToo, and playing her own grandmotherRuth Wilson shot the scene in which …
Wyndham's; Shakespeare's Globe; Hampstead, LondonLesley Manville glitters as desperate mother Mary in O'Neill's grim family portrait. Plus, Barrie Rutter's valedictory Captive Queen and US s…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsStories of the Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants to Britain are movingly told by Phoenix Dance TheatreA great pyramid of packing cases and trunks aga…
Sherman, CardiffSelf-pity and misogyny meet melodrama in Conor McPherson's 2000 chamber piece about an alcoholic's Christmas Eve search for redemptionDecorations feebly festoon the back room…
Group seeks £3m to buy historic West End venueA group of women from the world of the performing arts has launched a campaign to buy a West End theatre with the aim of making it a venue th…
Catastrophe actor and writer says Henry died in January and writes: 'I will endeavour not to go mad with grief'Actor and writer Rob Delaney has announced the death of his two-year-old son He…
After his third sold-out arena tour, the Glaswegian comedian was burned out and ready to quit. Drinking, jogging and reading self-help books didn't work. So what's brought him back?At the gr…
The standup comic and writer on what makes him laugh the mostAl Roberts's entrance to the Sheeps 2015 show Sheeps Skewer the News, when he came on with a mohican wig saying he was a punk now…
Tanztheater Wuppertal revive their founder's striking evocation of death, sex and corruption in the eternal cityWhen Pina Bausch's work was first shown in London in 1982 it changed the way w…
Barbican, LondonSidi Larbi Cherkaoui's visually spectacular adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's manga is philosophical about our relationships with robots, but lacks a human heartIn 1920, Karel Ä�…