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Dreamed up by architect Lina Bo Bardi, Teatro Oficina's experimental, drug-fuelled theatre was a hallmark of Brazil's counterculture in the 60s and 70s. Now it risks being a casualty of SÃ�…
As she announces her first season, including a My Left Foot musical, the new head of NTS says she wants to demystify the artistic process and is calling on young people to shape the company'…
Avignon festivalThis mammoth production of the neocon classic shifts the focus to its enthralling and predatory femme fataleOlivier Py's first outing as Avignon festival director has been ho…
There are villages where the families of dead soldiers are given a goat as compensation. This struck Liwaa Yazji as the perfect starting point for a play " with live animals " about the horr…
Denise Deegan had a West End hit with her parody of 1920s boarding-school novels. Now, Paulette Randall is staging an age-blind revival with a crack cast of actors. They share their teenage …
Theatre in the Park, ChichesterChichester has acquired a 25-metre-high big top to stand in for the temporarily closed Festival theatre. It would seem appropriate that it opens with a revival…
Soho theatre, LondonBrigstocke's confessional standup gives this show its edge: he should lose the standard comedy shtick that surrounds itThis show, says Marcus Brigstocke, is about "stupid…
Curve, LeicesterPaul Kerryson's final show combines picture-book wholesomeness with a message for the darkest of timesIt came as a shock. Maybe it shouldn't have, but it did. After all, The …
From walking the wire to learning hokum lyrics, the standup shares his backstage diary as he takes on the role of the circus legendI'm proud of the stories, jokes and rants I've written and …
You might think Boney M told you all you need to know about the sex-mad monk. But it wasn't until I wrote my fringe play, I Killed Rasputin, that I realised his enemies were just as flawed' …
28 November 1969 While starring as Gudrun in Ken Russell's Women in Love should have made here instantly recognisable, Jackson maintains her anonymity is safe Glenda Jackson has a face which…
Jerusalem international festival is told government funds cannot be used to subsidise certain performances A conflict between Israel's draconian culture minister and artists using nudity in …
Bid has attracted broad support in Scottish town where at the beginning of the process 'the arts were a four-letter word' for manyAs the Christmas lights blinked on across Renfrewshire this …
Giving Tuesday | French insects | Paddington 2 | The Guardian's values | Dying Swan | Duetting with the deadAlan Machin (Letters, 27 November) is right when he suggests a charitable antidote…
Prolific opera and theatre designer renowned for his inventive staging and exquisite costumesPaul Brown, the opera and theatre designer, who has died aged 57, was a dealer in truth and beaut…
Anders Lustgarten's new play, The Secret Theatre, taps into our current climate of fear by shining a light on Sir Francis Walsingham, the original CEngland is ruled by a beleaguered woman tr…
If Mr Burns, a provocative vision of post-apocalyptic America, has been slammed, it's because theatre critics know more about Homer than Homer Simpson. More fool them.One of the most tantali…
She has turned The Simpsons into a post-apocalyptic opera, invented her own language and put on a communist Dracula pageant. Now, the US playwright is staging the creepy, late-night TV class…
The Pit, LondonCurrent events cast a timely light on this funny, gripping story of oppression, told through the world of all-female roller derby'This is a witch hunt. We are the witches, and…
Apollo, LondonThere's wit and heart galore in Tom Macrae and Dan Gillespie's musical inspired by a teenage boy who wanted to dress in girls' clothesWho could resist Everybody's Talking About…
Octagon theatre, Bolton A new adaptation and a fresh young cast bring Dickens's classic tale to vivid, chorusing lifeThe set is a simple, timeless cobbled street; costumes indicate the 19th …
Coliseum; Sadler's Wells, LondonThe pick of male ballet talent struggle to shine on Ivan Putrov's bare stage, but Kyle Abraham sends his dancers soaringMen in Motion, Ivan Putrov's celebrati…
Young Vic, LondonAeschylus speaks directly to us in David Greig's electrifying adaptationFierce and crystal-clear, The Suppliant Women arrives in London like an arrow shot into the hear…
Sex on crutches? It can only be the work of Canadian controversialist Marie ChouinardMarie Chouinard is a 55-year-old Canadian choreographer whose work is known for its sexually voyeuristic …
Director of theatre near fire that killed 71 people picks play about gerrymandering in 1980s as debut productionA play about a notorious social housing scandal is to be staged in a new theat…
