Citizens, GlasgowFrances Poet and Dominic Hill turn the tragedy into a relentlessly intense two-hander starring Keith Fleming and Charlene BoydThe bed could have been designed by Tracey Emin…
Two companies collaborate to take a delicate look at family dynamics, while the esteemed choreographer brings a deeply personal show to Sadler's Wells1 Things I Know to Be TrueThis collabora…
The star-studded sequel to the cult sci-fi film hits cinemas, while Simon Stephens's two-hander transfers from BroadwayPhoenixNow 20 years into their career, erudite French indie pop quartet…
Saving Money Week A trip to the cinema or theatre can be expensive, but here are some ideas to make your budget stretch furtherIt costs to take some time out. A ticket to the cinema for one …
The Trump resistance has become sing-a-long-able, thanks to a 30-something man from Queens and his YouTube channelNorth Korea insists war with America is inevitable! Puerto Rico has no drink…
Play written by Stefano Massini about the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers is a story that should concern everyoneOne thing stands out in Italian theatres: the audiences are really responsiv…
Sam Steiner's play about the second coming of a rap star and Nessah Muthy's intriguing soldier's story lead an ambitious London pop-up festivalIn Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa wa…
Barbican, LondonThe Swedish auteur's tales of actors are directed by Ivo van Hove at his most lucid and ostentatious, featuring fine performances and a pulsating tempest****/***'Can you be t…
Social media abuzz after Spider-Man star makes unexpected appearance in The Drowned Man at London's Temple StudiosIt's what every Punchdrunk theatre fan craves: a one-on-one encounter with a…
The immersive theatre company's new show Kabeiroi has just 864 tickets (for £110 a pair) and is closed to critics, while its corporate gigs are on the rise. Have the showstoppers sold out…
The star of Ace Ventura and The Mask is the reason I got into comedy. Meeting him was a dream come true ... until things got existentialWe are all clusters of tetrahedrons moving around toge…
Opera House, ManchesterAvoiding crowbarred hits in favour of an affecting story of intergenerational pop fandom, this clever jukebox musical is full of fun and intimate detailJukebox musical…
Since 2004, a boozy lunchtime institution has launched careers, staged 40 new plays a year and changed the landscape of Scottish theatreIt defies all the rules of theatre marketing. Scarcely…
My friend Bernard Pomerance, who has died aged 76, was a playwright and poet whose most famous work was the play The Elephant Man. It had its first run in Britain in 1977, then went over to …
Part tourist trip, part cult initiation ceremony, the experimental theatre outfit's new show blurs the boundary between the real world and the imaginedIt is designed for audiences of two, la…
The surefire playwright, director and actor is an inspired choice as the Young Vic's new artistic director " he has proved himself time and againThe appointment of Kwame Kwei-Armah as the ne…
His bold take on Shakespeare's tragedy features kabuki witches, Buddhist chants and a cello-playing Lady Macbeth. As it returns, Yukio Ninagawa's collaborators remember how he enthralled and…
Actor best known for his role as Mike Rawlins, the 'Scouse git' son-in-law of Alf Garnett in the BBC's Till Death Us Do PartTony Booth, who has died aged 85, made his mark as an actor throug…
Actors who nap on stage, ecstatic dances, ravishing arias, lovers swamped in sand … Jan Fabre's epic in a Belgrade conference centre is an endurance testThe centrepiece of this year's Belg…
Award-winning British playwright, who is currently director of Baltimore's Center Stage, will take over role next yearKwame Kwei-Armah, the actor turned award-winning British playwright, has…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonStephen Clark's puzzling drama about a man planning to either seduce or murder his dinner guest comes across as both morbid and exploitativeSex and death are the the…
Forty of the UK's top young dancers take sequences from their latest Sadler's Wells production to various locations around Hull, this year's UK city of culture. The National Youth Dance Comp…
Soho Theatre, London More reviewsAll too often, the compressed, feverish atmosphere of the Edinburgh festival inspires not criticism but hyperbole. Shows transfer to London and wither in the…
The Ally McBeal star started out in fringe theatre, and has now returned to live performance with staged radio recordings of A Doll's House and The Seagull. She talks to Lisa MarksThere's no…
Standup Nick Coyle's new show Queen of Wolves takes a Victorian governess on a terrifying journey " and proves how humour and horror work in similar waysThe buzz around Australian standup Ni…