Hamilton hits London, Bryan Cranston's news anchor goes berserk, Wayne McGregor turns his DNA into dance, Mae Martin revisits her teen addictions and Toyah Willcox is a time-travelling queen…
Previously unpublished letters reveal tension between legendary lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and producer over staging of musicalHe is the most powerful musicals producer of all time, but in his…
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThis adaptation of Jack Rosenthal's TV film brings back the desperate drivers and their sadistic examiner " but does the story belong on stage?Any adaptation has…
Sam Steiner's Kanye the First, which opens at the HighTide festival, imagines West's reincarnation as a middle-class BritWhat would you do if one day you woke up and you were Kanye West? To …
The British Library's digital archive reveals early objections to Samuel Beckett's play alongside other records of classic works' early livesToday, Waiting for Godot is the most celebrated o…
As the director tours Rita, Sue and Bob Too for his company Out of Joint, his one-time assistant celebrates a career spent speaking up for the nation " and nurturing talents such as Andrea D…
Audience involvement is required to stage everything from first dates to a noodle-dough-pillow assault in this ludicrous showFrom the opening minutes of Chef: Come Dine With Us, the audience…
Eddie Izzard relishes a challenge. The transgender hero has done standup in French and German, run dozens of marathons, and is now in a period drama with Judi Dench. But, he reveals, hi…
The Yorkshire-born principal dancer at St Petersburg's Mariinsky Ballet on cricket, homesickness, his new life abroad " and performing back in HullXander Parish, 31, is a principal dancer wi…
King William House, HullRevolt meets retail in 80s South Korea in this dazzling, thought-provoking production from dreamthinkspeakOne Day, Maybe is an unusual, intimidating and thought-provo…
Olivier, LondonImelda Staunton leads an evening of star turns in this glittering, bittersweet dissection of midlife regret, brilliantly directed by Dominic CookeFollies is like a distinctive…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsNorthern Ballet's adaptation of John Boyne's Holocaust novel is strongly performed but profoundly misconceivedA ballet that takes the Holocaust as its subject …
Hull Truck theatre, HullJohannesburg company Market Theatre delivers a universal message about prejudice from the story of a couple fleeing their village for the cityIt's appropriate that Jo…
Richmond theatre, LondonShared Experience's modern update of the Little Mermaid has a seductive dreaminess, but there's far too much going on to successfully re-empower the characterThere is…
Ong Keng Sen's experience as director of the national festival has shed light on overt and covert censorship of the arts in SingaporeIn many ways, theatremaker Ong Keng Sen was a natural fit…
Overrunning building work means 16,000 people who had booked to see musical in first two weeks face wait for new datesThe London opening of smash US stage musical Hamilton has been delayed b…
A limited number of tickets at the National Theatre's production will allow audiences to watch the play from onstage restaurantIts intense plot may be enough to give anyone indigestion, but …
From Mrs Overall to Mrs Weasley, Walters' niceness is in danger of overtaking her immense stagecraft " if I could only be as real as she is The restaurant kitchen door opens. A spindly arm s…
The actor, podcaster and improv star on the things that make her laugh the mostBroad City. It was the first time I saw female characters allowed to be just funny: not having to facilitate pl…
The comedy duo recently celebrated the ten-year anniversary of their cult show and talk about finding the funny in the mundane and how they metFor almost two decades now, comedy duo Tim (Hei…
Production called #BeMoreMartyn will be based on friends' memories of 29-year-old Coronation Street superfanThere will be divas, glamour and, almost certainly, a flamboyant take on some of C…
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's staging of the children's novel returns, while Hofesh Shechter's new show imagines an anarchic apocalypse1 War HorseWith it becoming such a huge and deserve…
Secret location, HullIn dreamthinkspeak's new show, audiences explore the spaces of a mystery multi-storey venue to delve into South Korea's past, present and futureFor their latest show, dr…
Arts theatre, LondonThis software-generated Greenham Common musical is risibly stereotypical but pleasant as a milky drinkPlenty of musicals written by humans sound as if they have been comp…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterFamilies lie at the heart of drama. And Simon Stephens' new play, co-commissioned by the National Theatre and the Royal Exchange, offers a sensitive study of three …