We're Still Here tells how community fought closure of Tata works that threatened thousands of livelihoodsThe last acting part for Sam Coombes, a steelworker, was Robin Hood in the annual ru…
The Barbican hosts the first major UK exhibition for the legendary artist, while the biennial celebrating film, art and digital culture returns to the Peak DistrictRoy LichtensteinDrawing fr…
From Spongebob Squarepants to Mean Girls, Broadway is gearing up for a wave of new musicals and with TV and film projects too, the genre is back on topOn the heels of its most lucrative seas…
Sir Peter Hall's later years at Kingston University saw him still producing vivid and challenging theatre, says Richard WilsonMichael Billington describes "a certain sadness" in Peter Hall's…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonWalking the audience through the struggle between the monarchy and the people during the English civil war, this show chimes with our own timesGemma Brock…
Dunbar's bleakly funny tale of a menage a trois captured 80s austerity. What can her defiant heroines tell audiences today?'This is life," Andrea Dunbar told the Yorkshire Post in 1987, defe…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonMcKee brings an imposing stillness to Tristan Bernays's play about the ancient British queen whose uprising is crushed by the RomansGina McKee plays Boudica, the r…
Valuing people | National heroes | First names | Nipple pasties | Steely Dan | Boris JohnsonNow that a way has been found to calculate the asset value of a tree (Put a price on trees and hal…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe choreographer squares up to our political anxieties " and his own demons " with grace and the defiant spirit of the band who played on the TitanicGrand Finale is as…
Jermyn Street theatre, London The Swedish dramatist's life is shown to echo his plays in a new production about his obsession with alchemy and his relationships with three women'Death to poe…
Pop-up Globe theatre is the world's first full-scale temporary working replica of London's second Globe from the 1600sShakespeare compared breasts to globes in The Rape of Lucrece, and used …
In conversations with Hall over 40 years, I encountered a creative powerhouse who exuded confidence yet could be a strangely solitary figurePeter Hall was a man of infinite contradictions. I…
He gave Peter Brook his big break, helped Elaine Paige conquer her fear, showed Griff Rhys Jones the joy of farce and dazzled a teenage Samuel West. They celebrate the great director who has…
Set to headline Melbourne festival, the performer's epic 24-hour show presents an alternative history that celebrates the outsidersYou know you're witnessing something special when it's 7am …
Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director says decision to name first ever all-woman lineup was not a deliberate actFor the first time in its history, all plays in the Royal Shakespeare …
The former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre has died at the age of 86. Revisit some of his major productions, including Waiting for Godot, No Man's Land and…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterBlanche McIntyre is one of the flotilla of female directors coming to the forefront of British theatre. But, although she's assembled a cracking cast for this reviv…
Orange Tree, Richmond In this revival of Storey's 1989 play, set during the Thatcher era, a poignant celebration subtly turns into a state-of-the-nation drama There could no better tribute t…
Creator of the Royal Shakespeare Company who built up the National and championed regional playhousesSir Peter Hall, who has died aged 86, was the single most influential figure in modern Br…
The great director, who has died aged 86, was a founding father of both the National Theatre and the RSC and masterminded landmark stagings of Shakespeare, Beckett and Pinter The roles of di…
A star-studded new West End production of Harold Pinter's classic play, directed by Ian Rickson, is scheduled for 2018It was famously savaged by theatre critics who dismissed it as "puzzling…
More than any other director, Sir Peter Hall shaped British theatre. As he turns 80, he tells Michael Billington about his doubts about the new RSC building and his dismay at fighting arts c…
RSC's founder defends the company's right to be subsidised, saying 'controversy is the lifeblood of the arts'Director Peter Hall has dismissed complaints about the RSC's revival of Marat/Sad…
Founder of Royal Shakespeare Company and former National Theatre director dies surrounded by his family in London Sir Peter Hall, the former director of the National Theatre and founder of t…
The Abbots Bromley horn dance is an English folk dance whose origins date back to the middle ages and is performed annually on Wakes Monday " which is the first Monday after 4 September. The…