Royal Court, LondonLiwaa Yazji's play is named after the animals that Syrian villagers were given as an inadequate, absurd compensation for the loss of family membersThe last time we saw a g…
Mark Thomas was moved by Bill Hicks. Tim Key loved Jackson's Way. Olivia Poulet loved Tim Key … Performers and theatre-makers pick their all-time festival favouritesIn 1988, I was performi…
Royal Opera House, LondonMarianela Nuñez and Natalia Osipova take turns playing one of classical dance's most unconventional heroines, in the Royal Ballet's opulent Arcadian fantasyWomen …
The standup, actor and 'Steve Tyler lookalike' on the things that make her laugh the mostI saw an Australian comedy group in Edinburgh in the summer called the Doug Anthony Allstars. The fun…
Horovitz departs from the Gloucester Stage Company as his son, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, issues statement saying 'I believe the allegations are true'Award-winning playwright-screenwriter Is…
BAC, LondonFeminist theatre company RashDash rework the Brothers Grimm fairytale for a family audience, with colourful heroines in control of their own destinies'No, not the Disney version,"…
When our writer asked Hackney Empire's Ugly Sisters for a humiliating, innuendo-laden experience, they said they'd give him one. Here's what happened nextIn this year's pantomime at the Hack…
Celebrated the wild-haired director by taking in this triple bill, then get the skinny on the best Scottish art from the early 20th centuryHauntedPresented by broadcaster and journalist Dann…
It could have been excruciating: a historical epic told through rap and show tunes. But Lin-Manuel Miranda's show became a sensation and its million-selling cast album is a triumph in its ow…
Sleeping Beauty hasn't always been a docile object, says Lyn Gardner. She's had to face a cannibal queen, a rapist king - and even a Nazi princeFor our age of anxiety, Sleeping Beauty is the…
The new play from House of Cards creator Beau Willimon, in which Thurman plays a Washington socialite, boasts sterling performances but relies too much on topical jabsHudson Theatre, New Yor…
Actor posts video of 1991 interview in which she describes alleged assault, saying TV host and producer pushed drugs 'under my nose'Bette Midler renewed an allegation of 1970s sexual miscond…
Clarke Peters didn't just grew up listening to Louis Jordan. The singing legend's feelgood numbers also inspired his hit musical Five Guys Named Moe. With the show now revived for a new gene…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the founding father is set to storm London. Often mistaken for a president, its hero engineered America and Britain's special relationship, was rocked by a…
Enda Walsh to adapt Max Porter's acclaimed novel about love, art and bereavement for Complicité theatre company's Irish productionCillian Murphy is to star in an Irish stage version of Max …
As police yesterday yet again applied brute force to the residents of São Paulo's 1,000-strong encampment of addicts, a group of artists is trying something wildly different' Inside Crack…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA great cast and plentiful carol-singing make this staging of the Dickens classic as rich as a plum pudding " and sometimes as sickly sweetWith its hardworking cast, o…
Ustinov Studio, BathGreg Hicks plays an ailing father who cruelly mocks his wife, children and brother in Will Eno's acid examination of family lifeJust when you thought the American family …
Oscar-winner who starred in Sydney Theatre Company's production of King Lear says he has received no details of the complaint from the company or accuserThe Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush…
The comedian stars alongside Keegan-Michael Key and Laura Benanti in Steve Martin's mixed bag of sitcom humor and raunchy jokesBooth Theatre, New YorkSteve Martin's lump of sight gags, one-l…
Roslyn Packer theatre, SydneyTackling a play driven by its protagonist's unreasonable expectations, Sydney Theatre Company's season-ending blockbuster doesn't quite deliver on the hypeIt is …
Old Vic, London Jack Thorne's superb retelling mines the ghosts of Scrooge's past in a timely production brimming with love and affectionTwo months after Dickens's story first appeared at Ch…
As Lindsay Lohan prepares to make her West End debut in Speed-the-Plow, can you guess if these lines come from Mean Girls or David Mamet's plays?"I'm wearing a spinal halo." Mean GirlsMamet"…
With his weaponised dialogue and hypnotic macho characters, no writer has so relentlessly confronted the explosive issues of our times. But theatre and Hollywood are changing. As he hits 70,…
Comedy Box, Bristol After spending a year in rehab, Cho returns to the mic and tackles Weinstein and Trump, leaving prudery and inhibition in her wakeSince her last UK visit, Korean-American…