The Blind Giant is Dancing stars Stone and her husband, Dan Spielman, of political thriller series The Code. 'We just have to try and be careful,' Stone saysIt's 1980s Australia and Louise a…
Stage works will include Frank McGuinness adaptation of De Profundis and folk opera based on The Selfish GiantFifty years after the decriminalisation of homosexual acts between men in privat…
Good Mourning Mrs Brown, the cross-dressing hit's live show, is so full of horseplay, guffaws and in-jokes, I started to feel like a gooseberryOne surefire way to elicit sympathy from your c…
This thrilling play about three sons who go home to their dads " and their childhoods " shows verbatim theatre's power to heed the forgottenThe scene: a wine-bar close to the Royal Exchange,…
Arcola, LondonThis powerful real-life account of life in Jenin in the West Bank, is a raw and sharply comic production, asking if the stage can be as powerful as an AK47Ahmed lives in the Je…
Mae West ended up in court for writing The Drag " a play about a closeted gay socialite that ended up banned. Polly Stenham, who's directing a revival, celebrates the star who took a limo to…
Dundee Rep, DundeeThis modern reimagining of Shakespeare's gore-fest, set in a warehouse-style restaurant, is dynamically realised " in spite of some shaky verse-speakingWe're seated along t…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonA terrific cast give a masterclass in power and paranoia in this tremendous modern-day revival of Shakespeare's tale of revengeBlanche McIntyre'…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBrazilian beats steal the show in this eco-fairytale about a water sprite battling human greed in the AmazonSisters Grimm, the young production company formed by compos…
The playwright, who died last year, made provisions in his will to ensure any remaining manuscripts were never published. But, as with Nabokov and Kafka, will his dying wishes be ignored?Nam…
An end to abuse, a law against mansplaining, and reparations for two millennia of injustice … as a new sci-fi art show imagines a female-led future, we ask comedians, writers, politicians …
In light of a theatrical live event where women are in charge, we want to know what you think a society like that might be like. Share your views belowWhat If Women Ruled the World is a "the…
It's 20 years since Tony Blair reshaped Britain's economy around the arts, yet the project's legacy is an exploitative sector dominated by people from an astonishingly small demographic pool…
Donmar Warehouse, London Singing MPs grill charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and chair Alan Yentob in a show that's as melodramatic as Tosca " though not as tunefulIs there anything the …
Marie Chouinard's sexually charged debut programme sees dancers locked up like zoo animals then unleashed, while Vladimir Putin is taunted with whips " and made to dance with a Nubian QueenA…
Can't imagine what the libretto for a show based on the singer's seminal 1995 album might be like? Wonder no moreTwenty-two years after its release, Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill re…
To a generation, he will forever be Uncle Monty in Withnail & I, for others he is Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter films. But Richard Griffiths is about to reinvent himself twice - in a …
Actor says six words in The Force Awakens were 'strangest experience' as she tells Radio Times about pressures of playing three Shakespeare roles in one dayDame Harriet Walter has revealed t…
When she was a little girl, the German actor used to sit in on her father's union meetings. Now she's directing her political fervour into Returning to Reims, a new play by Thomas Ostermeier…
Finborough theatre, LondonThis tale of an idealistic teacher in a Scottish mining village wears its enjoyably scathing politics on its sleeveAs an outpost for Scottish drama, the Finborough …
Ink charts the sensational rise of the Sun and its unquenchable thirst for sex and scandal. Its playwright explains how he found the man behind the media monster Rupert Murdoch was missing a…
Poet, dramatist, visionary and pamphleteer whose muse was fuelled by a witty and beautiful angerHeathcote Williams, who has died aged 75, was a unique and brilliant writer " poet, dramatist,…
Britain's creative industries are worth £84bn a year. But Brexit will deal a disastrous blow to a sector that depends on sharing ideas, experiences and talent ' Nicholas Hytner's new thea…
His poems blasted the arms trade, consumerism and the tabloids, and he was also an accomplished painter and sculptorHeathcote Williams, the radical poet, playwright, actor, and polymathic En…
Centenary Building, Salford This Manchester foray into disaster survival, perhaps tamed by recent events, emphasises fun and craftwork rather than posing serious existential questionsWhat ar…