Lyttelton, London In JT Rogers' engrossing play on a historic moment in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in 1993, we are reminded that diplomacy requires duplicityJT Rogers is an Americ…
A cockney lad who now drinks Zinfandel and admires the Montessori way, Flanagan satirises both sides of the class divideTitle: The Out Out Tour LiveDate: 2011 Continue reading...
O2 Arena, LondonIf you've got a taste for straight-up 1970s nostalgia comedy, you'll take a lot away from comedy stalwart Micky Flanagan's latest setYou may have seen Micky Flanagan on …
The UK's most popular comic is taking his cockney shtick on tour but he's more than a cheeky caricature " his democratic brand of humour is smart and generousI'm not sure whether to review M…
'I wanted to be the first guy to use a four-letter word in a musical " but the line ended up as "krup you" instead'I was at a party with Arthur Laurents who was about to write a musical with…
The Place, LondonThe performers morph from party kids to Victorians to hipsters in Requardt & Rosenberg's subversive, surreal spectacle of death and the afterlifeChoreographer Frauke Req…
To create The Tin Drum, the theatre company spent two weeks tucked away in a cluttered rural retreat where they eat, run and rehearse together " just don't call it a commune, says artistic d…
Brexit | Attenborough statue | Species extinction | Musicals | Hymns | A month in AmbridgeThe Brexit-supporting academic who complains about being shunned by colleagues when they reveal thei…
Thousands watch national and international ballet stars at Opening the NewDance teacher Vanessa Hooper puts it down to the city's history and geography while Royal Ballet boss Kevin O'Hare t…
The stars of the Greenwich comedy festival had to concertina their standup routines. But can the likes of Dylan Moran and Bridget Christie ruminate and rage against the clock?What is the bas…
The dancer and choreographer on rehearsing in the kitchen, snacking in the studio and getting his head around broccoliWhen five or six months old I was taken to Bangladesh by my father for f…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThis story of reclusive research and rock'n'roll is at its best when communicating through music and songThe 52-hertz whale has been called the loneliest whale i…
Globe, LondonGina McKee is a brave, bloody-minded queen of the Iceni in Tristan Bernays's vigorous and earthy playOutside the House of Commons stands one of the few London statues of a woman…
Orange Tree, RichmondSue Wallace and Ian Gelder are outstanding as a bickering elderly couple in David Storey's play about a family reunionIt is a long time since I have seen a tasselled lam…
Writer and director Thea Sharrock remembers the eminent theatre, opera and film director, and founder of the RSC, who died on 11 SeptemberIn 2002 I did a production of Trip's Cinch, a little…
Sadler's Wells, LondonIn a bracing return to form, Hofesh Shechter's existential anguish and his often beautiful choreography fight to the deathTen years ago, during a question and answer se…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThis tale of a guard dog in Stalin's Russia captures the essence of the gulags only too wellAll is grey, wind howls, light is dim: design, sound and music suggest b…
The playwright-actor's directorial debut reinterprets a blistering drama about race in America for an Australian contextWhen Nakkiah Lui first read the script for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' pla…
Leicester Square theatre, LondonCasting himself as a social misfit in his new show To Be Free, Amstell turns his fire, sometimes embarrassingly, on all of usWhat becomes of the neurotic come…
It's part of the mythology of the famous that if you are a show-off, you must once have been a shrinking violetDid I read that Bruce Forsyth was a shy boy? And that it was singing and dancin…
Meirion Bowen writes: Peter Hall played a key role in rescuing the reputation as an opera composer of Sir Michael Tippett, dismissed and mocked in the 1950s as bafflingly over-complex and bi…
Bristol Old VicChristopher Haydon updates the 1960 play about the machinations of a homeless houseguest into a piece about paranoia and the migrant experienceEntering the theatre, it looks a…
Hampstead theatre, LondonLindsay is magnetic as the celebrated cinematographer, who looks back over his life from Alzheimer's-affected old age in Terry Johnson's moving playJack Cardiff, the…
The Guilty Feminist podcast host on the things that make her laugh the most, from Tim Minchin to Better Off DeadA tie between two Australians: Tim Minchin's Ready for This? and Hannah Gadsby…
Sally Cookson's witty, inventive take on Charlotte Brontë's novel comes to Hull, while the city's New theatre reopens with a visit from the Royal's dancers1 Living With the Lights OnEarli…