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Artistic director and executive producer were the first female partnership to run a London theatre The first female partnership to run a London theatre have announced their departure from th…
Soho theatre, LondonThe drudgery of bureaucracy is sent up with great expressivity, loose-limbed flair and a heightened sense of the ridiculousAbsurdist takes on the office environment are a…
Exploring consent issues through interactive drama and comedy can effect lasting change, whether tackling violence against sex workers in Africa, sex education in South America or abuse in U…
Royal Court, LondonPatsy Ferran is a puckish delight as an emotionally abandoned daughter in Anoushka Warden's candid account of teenage wounded furyEyebrows might be raised at the Royal Cou…
He rides a racehorse, plays Arctic cricket and has already seen Hamilton. How will the new boss do at the DCMS " and will Ed Sheeran be invited to its Xmas party?In the BBC's self-satire W1A…
Soho theatre, LondonAn infinite number of monkeys, Pavlov's dogs and Cartesian thought are gleefully debunked in a jaunty and refreshingly intelligent showAt the start of his comedy career, …
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet's La Sylphide is limited by one-note performances but Tamara Rojo dazzles in Kenneth MacMillan's magisterial Song of the Earth With its guileless stor…
Arts theatre, LondonAnne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and co tell their stories in a lively new musical that makes serious points about how women are erased from historyEveryone knows the old rhyme …
In the last year the National Theatre has toured six productions to 36 towns and cities across the UK, writes its director of communications Martin PrendergastWhile there was much to admire …
Her childhood in care, her mother's heroin addiction, her days as a sex worker … Bolton comedian Sophie Willan is turning the details of her life into dazzling standupIt's great to have So…
Photographer Peter Dazeley and writer Michael Coveney have explored every London theatre from gallery to pit in a new study of the capital's cultural temples Continue reading...
Zombie janitors and living sculptures rattle the nerves in the world of the surrealist Belgian duo who have created a terrifying trilogy from family lifePaintings swallow people whole. Sketc…
Finborough theatre, LondonSet in the seaside town that registered one of the highest Brexit votes in the UK, Sue Healy's ebullient play has some lively performancesThe English seaside town, …
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe convivial comic serves up a hotchpotch of creaking jokes, funny accents and satire " but not all his fans can stomach it'I've been heckled, I've been phys…
Soho theatre, LondonThe award-winning Aussie duo flout standup's conventions to mine laughs from misery and nihilism. It's certainly bold " but can you get too much of a bad thing?The list o…
Oops, the restaurant critic sent to review the on-stage edibles got distracted by the show, Network (an adaptation of the '70s movie): The food "barely registers. It's something dark on a pl…
From gleaming crowns to bubbling cauldrons, from pink flamingos to forklift trucks, the Royal Shakespeare Company's gigantic prop store is a place of jaw-dropping theatrical alchemy. Our wri…
Arcola theatre, LondonSam Potter's sharp play, about a woman who finds out her daughter is not hers, raises big questions and is performed superbly by Sophie Khan LevyThere is a long history…
Former Neighbours star says accusations from three women involved in 2014 Australian stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show are baselessAustralian actor Craig McLachlan has denied…
My father, Graham Binmore, who has died aged 75, had a long and varied career behind the scenes in theatre and television. Highlights of this included working with Jim Henson on the Muppet S…
The new stage version of the 1976 film allows audience members to dine as the play takes place around them. We sent a restaurant reviewer to appraise the food " but he got too distracted by …
As her monologue My Mum's a Twat opens at the Royal Court, PR turned playwright Anoushka Warden talks about her big break " and how she survived a difficult childhoodAnoushka Warden did not …
Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and actor Tracy Letts talks about his childhood, his addictions, and appearing with Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg's new political thriller The Post, whic…
Southwark Playhouse, London After some banana-skin slip-ups, this comedy about the spotty teenager turned caped blunderer gathers some final, resounding laughterBananaman, the blundering sup…
At Dublin's Abbey and Gate theatres and beyond, a grassroots movement has put the spotlight on a new wave of female playwrights, directors and other creatives In The Red Shoes at Dublin's Ga…
