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The playwright presents a selection of monologues, dialogues, musings, gushing newspaper eulogies and an opera broadcast that goes horribly wrong …Darling, you remember Sylvia? Continue re…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonHollywood star shines in limited run production directed by Kenneth Branagh and designed to raise funds for RadaFew shows are seemingly more exclusive than this. Tom …
Playwright and director who scored an international hit with The Knack and pushed the boundaries of community theatreThere were two distinct, equally significant, phases to the career of the…
Three-week run at 160-seat theatre will raise money for drama school, with tickets given out by lottery system " now closedIt is being described by the very few who have seen dress rehearsal…
Austen's women have the same rights as children; her 'romantic' match-making smacks of desperation. So how did the standup see the funny side of Pride and Prejudice for her new stage adaptat…
The comedian and Taskmaster creator on the things that make him laugh the most, from Tim Key to The Blues BrothersEvery time I see Tommy Tiernan talking about sex or nothing or God I howl wi…
Shôn Dale-Jones turns his attention to the increasing divide between rich and poor, while Requardt & Rosenberg deliver an intense performance about memory1 Me & Robin HoodIn his l…
The Calais camp brought out the best and the worst of humanity " but Good Chance Theatre showed the power of compassion and creativity' Kirstin Shirling is a freelance creative engagement pr…
Sydney Theatre CompanyWeaving is faultless in a production that turns Shakespeare's play around and confirms Kip Williams as a major directing talentThe risks of this production are there fr…
The writer behind Matilda the musical and cult TV show Utopia is about to make his Royal Court debut. Not bad for a man who spent his 20s stacking shelves and fighting alcoholismSome people …
Macbeth is Australia's most performed Shakespearean play " so pity theatre critics like Jane Howard who don't enjoy it As a theatre critic it's important to not decide on a work before you s…
In Outlaws to In-Laws, seven short plays chart how gay lives have changed decade by decade since the 1950s, from a time of blackmail to a world of dating apps. Three writers " Jonathan Kemp,…
The traditionally male pastime of morris dancing has a secret history involving a suffragette and the slum girls of Victorian London. Lucy Neal investigatesThey say morris dancing is on its …
A dance-theatre version of William Golding's 1954 novel Lord of the Flies features members of Matthew Bourne's New Adventures company alongside a cast of local boys aged from 10 to their ea…
With its locally auditioned young dancers, Matthew Bourne's touring production vividly displays the children's descent from innocence to savageryTwo tribes: Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flie…
The producer, Cameron Mackintosh, and librettist of the original 1985 show, Herbert Kretzmer, recall an adventure that began in a canoe surrounded by crocodiles, and ended with an all-night …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonTanika Gupta's real-life tale of her great-uncle's political awakening recounts a sprawling history but its more intimate scenes deliver the sharpest commentar…
When Bogosian's king of the trolls took to stage and screen in the 80s, subversive radio hosts were fun " then they led to Trump. The actor and playwright talks about punk pranks, harassing …
From Botticelli to glossy magazines, women have been idealised and misrepresented for centuries. Performance poet Lydia Towsey reveals how her own near-fatal eating disorder set her on a pat…
Noel Fielding, comedian, 35, LondonFame is a bit Nietzschean. For everything good, something bad happens to you, so you have to sort of be careful.My mum and dad are quite hippyish, so I'm p…
Cate Blanchett among those to sign petition to Moscow's public prosecutor to drop criminal investigation into Kirill SerebrennikovHigh-profile figures in the arts world have called on Russia…
Now the fringe is over, comics from Desiree Burch to John Bishop are hitting the road with jokes about fertility anxiety, political correctness and life as a 'virgin dominatrix'Maybe you're …
Finborough, LondonGeoffrey Beevers' production of little-known play about the moral fissures within an upper middle-class family is a razor-sharp take on a quietly subversive workAs a reform…
Long-serving and prolific scriptwriter on ITV's Coronation StreetPeter Whalley, who has died aged 71 of cancer, was Coronation Streiet's longest-serving and most prolific scriptwriter, penni…
Cars of cast, crew and audience members targeted during a performance Holding the Man on Sydney's north shoreA theatre company says it "will not be silenced" after members of the cast, crew …
