Home, ManchesterThe Homeland star impresses in Thomas Ostermeier's engrossing staging of a memoir about political change and the left's disregard of the working classThe title suggests a Joa…
The actor on a book of ancient wisdom, the effortless cool of Fat White Family, hurling, asparagus and Ken Loach's I, Daniel BlakeBorn in Alvaston, Derby, in 1990, Jack O'Connell made his fi…
It was to celebrate Nina Simone's political passion as much as her musical genius that Josette Bushell-Mingo created her one-woman show about the singer. Here, the acclaimed actor talks abou…
London Palladium A technical hitch gave rise to a welcome burst of spontaneity from Rufus Hound as Mr Toad in this otherwise tame tale of wildlife"Poop, poop", as Toad so aptly puts it. Rach…
Centenary Building, Salford A doomed attempt to mix disaster survival and party games gets the otherwise promising Manchester international festival off to a shaky startJohn McGrath, foundin…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickStrindberg's passion play remains as resonant today in Howard Brenton's new translation as it was when first performed in the Paris of 189Times and theatrical fas…
Donmar Warehouse, London Sandra Marvin is imperious as Camila Batmanghelidjh but this verbatim reconstruction needs more vimJosie Rourke keeps pushing at the Donmar. All-female Shakespeares.…
Palace theatre, ManchesterLucinda Childs's collaboration with Frank Gehry and John Adams remains illuminating 35 years onAvailable Light was created in 1983 as a collaboration between choreo…
Pavel Dmitrichenko alleges masked officers assaulted him during escort back to cell after preliminary court hearingPavel Dmitrichenko, the former Bolshoi Ballet first soloist accused of arra…
Audiences struggled to relate to the 50-year-old Profumo scandal. Lloyd Webber needs to focus on passionate love' Matt Trueman: Stephen Ward to close after four months' Xan Brooks: Stephen W…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice created the 20th century's first (and last) great rock opera with flashes of Prokofiev and Stravinsky amid its hosannas " even Shostakovich was a fanUntil qu…
As Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita gets ready to return to the West End stage, we take a look at productions through the years Continue reading...
Move comes after outspoken director was questioned in a high-profile criminal investigation that supporters claim is politically motivatedRussia's Bolshoi theatre has announced the cancellat…
As he picks up a lifetime achievement award, Andrew Lloyd Webber reflects, in an exclusive interview, on his career and the censoring of a Dreamcoat lyricAndrew Lloyd Webber has intervened i…
House of Games playwright says he will fine venues that stage discussions about his workPost-show panel discussions, often including directors and actors, have become increasingly commonplac…
While the show mostly sidesteps the truly nasty side of the former Queensland premier's regime, its references to the present day are uncannyFor Queenslanders of a certain age, there is so m…
Some historians have begun to question the enduring and tragic touchstones of the Aboriginal warrior's lifeBangarra's current production Bennelong opened last week, and tells the first conta…
The actor was criticised over comments he made about preparing to play a gay man, and joined the likes of James Franco who've dabbled with ideas of sexualityIn an interview about his role as…
I first met Heathcote Williams in the early 1960s, just as his brilliant book The Speakers was published. I had sent a piece of writing to the Transatlantic Review, where he was an editor, w…
A new play I am directing echoes the message of the recent general election: inequality is completely out of handFrom the very beginning, our species behaved hierarchically, just like chimpa…
Hammersmith Apollo, London There's too much talk and too few new tricks amid the fire-breathing, bottle-juggling virtuosity' That's not magic: Penn, Teller and Derren Brown reveal all (or do…
Palace theatre, ManchesterThis exhilarating revival reignites the alchemy that the choreographer and the composer found with Frank GehryThe last time that Lucinda Childs' Available Light app…
The comedian and Trigger Happy TV creator on the things that make him laugh the most, from Harry Hill to his friend HarryHarry Hill, in 2000 or something. I remember thinking halfway through…
Revel in the over-the-top wackiness of the new Meat Loaf musical and take in Lucinda Childs's poetic classic of minimalist dance1 Bat Out of HellRomeo and Juliet meets Peter Pan in this dyst…
Frank Ocean tops the bill at the east London festival, while Abbot Hall in Cumbria celebrates Blake, Hockney, Boty and moreDog-friendly screeningDog lovers and fans of stop-motion animation …