Jess Thom's wonderful weekender featured bipolar pop star Captain Hotknives, a witty striptease by blind performer Amelia Cavallo and poetry done in BSL"Is there anything going on for us?" a…
My friend Peter Harris, who has died aged 50 of pancreatic cancer, was director and co-founder of Wolf and Water Arts Company.Peter was born in Worcester, the son of Muriel (nee Lerry), a pr…
Long Island man nicknamed the Juice Jackal says of attempt to charge cellphone on stage: 'Girls were calling all day. What would you do?'The audience member who jumped on stage to charge his…
David Hare's trilogy was an incisive portrait of British society in 1993, but is it still relevant, asks Michael BillingtonIn 1993 David Hare's trilogy about contemporary Britain at the Nat…
Sadler's Wells, LondonA varied bill skipped from the gorgeous classicism of Michael Corder's Le Baiser de la fée to the exotic carnival of dancing animals in David Bintley's Still Life at t…
Laban theatre, LondonClinkard's dancers often perform just inches from the audience in this unashamedly joyous workThere's a deceptive simplicity to Theo Clinkard's choreography. It's never …
Watermill theatre, NewburySix actors play 37 roles in a beautifully balanced production of Dylan Thomas's classic play for voicesBy 1953, the poet Dylan Thomas was ready to turn to writing l…
Hampstead theatre, LondonFenella Woolgar excels in an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's wartime tale that doesn't quite capture the novel's subtletiesEmbarrassment and anxiety shiver through …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonRice bows out as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in bravura style with a touching musical about two painfully shy chocolate-makersEmma Rice ends at th…
Richard Dreyfuss is rumoured to be forgetting his lines in Joe Sutton's play. Don't let that put you off parroting a few paragraphs from the criticsWho needs Oscar glamour when it's here in …
Lines in praise of Myra Hindley should be cut and blackface bonfire night performers bannedIs it "political correctness gone mad" to question the value of promoting a child murderer in the c…
Ustinov studio, BathPatrick Baladi and Niamh Cusack impress in Daniel Kehlmann's two-hander about surveillance, but their characters are mere mouthpiecesJudith, a philosophy professor, is on…
With a gag for every occasion, the tattyfilarious comic clocks up 50,000 miles a year performing his epic standup shows. He talks about stage fright, playing Yorick for 'Sir Kenneth All-Bran…
From the return of Bananarama to a new play by the writer of Doctor Foster, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue rea…
The theatre director's immediate and fierce response to the revelations about Harvey Weinstein was to hold an event in which 150 testimonies of sexual abuse of power were read out over five …
Theatre's artistic director says code is only a starting point and says everyone in the industry knew abuse was happening and accepted itA theatre industry code of behaviour to prevent sexua…
Jamie Campbell came out at 14, wore a dress to his school dance and dreamed of being a drag star. Throught it all, he was supported by his mother. Now, their lives are the subject of a music…
SBW Stables Theatre, SydneyMelbourne theatre company crafts a worthy stage performance using eight of the writer's 2014 collection of short storiesWhen Christos Tsiolkas, the multi-award-win…
Digital pressure on newsagents | Macron's poem | Decline in the wasp population | Fake news | The Rose theatre | Carles PuigdemontTomorrow, sadly, our village post office/newsagent is closi…
He came from a family of Pentecostal preachers and performed comedy with righteous, thrilling fervourTitle: Breaking the RulesDate: 1987 Continue reading...
The standup comic on the things that make him laugh the most, from people falling over to his dadMr Chowdhry, AKA my dad. In my lifetime he has provided me with countless material. My surrou…
The Place, LondonThe dance duo's latest work, Andante, subjects the audience to sensory overload as the smoke and smells create a distancing hazeIt is very rare to experience something defin…
Is it ever OK for comedians to joke about sexual assault? Is there such a thing as 'too soon'? Margaret Cho, Doug Stanhope, David Cross and other fearless comics on the fine line between fun…
BAC, LondonIn a ridiculously enjoyable show, Victoria Melody and her father, Mike, reveal how they came to organise his funeral even though he was still very much aliveWe don't like speaking…
Crew members of the Netflix show tell CNN that actor's 'predatory' behaviour had created a 'toxic' working environment on setKevin Spacey has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple cu…