African American star Robeson built his singing career in the teeth of racism in the early 1900s. But his radicalism was spurred on in Britain " by a chance meeting with a group of Welsh min…
The Royal Court artistic director on risk-taking, role models and her latest project " putting women in the Dr Strangelove war room…Vicky Featherstone has been artistic director of London'…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeA cast of eight deftly play a globe's worth of characters in Laura Eason's rollicking Jules Verne adaptationLaura Eason's 2013 adaptation of Around the World in …
Orange Tree, RichmondBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's ingenious reworking of a 19th-century slave drama continues an exceptional new lease of life at this tiny theatreWhat Paul Miller has done at th…
Wyndham's, LondonA bad gig for the jazz legend is a great one for McDonald as she embodies the troubled singer one wild night in PhiladelphiaLady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill supplies an…
Almeida, LondonCarvel is a natural as the media mogul in James Graham's engrossing play charting the rise of the Sun newspaperIs Ink indelible? Not really. Is it the talk of the theatrical w…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAlexander Whitley follows an inspiring theme, with immersive sounds and visions, but the choreography is rather less earth-shattering Photons, particles which transmit …
A trio of leading men from Russian companies are set to restore British passion for the ballet after a year of backstage drama at the BolshoiBefore he was fired as director of the Bolshoi Ba…
Autobiography highlights tantrums of one of world's greatest dancersRudolf Nureyev could transfix his audiences with the grace and beauty of his movement. But a new book reveals how the worl…
I know he was offensive, homophobic and racist, but Bernard Manning had the greatest delivery of any comedian I have ever seen.Bernard Manning: you caused a bit of trouble, but we are poorer…
For many years, the actor struggled with her Jewish identity. But now, as she's about to star in a new stage version of Fiddler on the Roof, she tells Thomas Harding how she came to embrace …
Bangarra's newest work is inspired by the life of Woollarawarre Bennelong, one of the most famous Aboriginal figures from the time of first contact. Bennelong was a senior man of the Eora na…
Sydney Opera HouseIt's a dance that hits hard, and offers a whirlwind tour of Bennelong's troubled life and deathIn 1793, the Aboriginal warrior Bennelong " taken to London to be shown off a…
It used to be just a word " now it is a way of life. But is it time to get off the banter bus? By Archie Bland'It's the most fucking ridiculous story, isn't it? We went to watch fucking dolp…
Richard Bean's tale of war, loss and reproduction enters its final week, while Sadler's Wells hosts Sisters Grimm's river-inspired production1 Kiss MeRichard Bean is best known for the mega-…
Stella Duffy, the writer and theatre-maker, calls for a radical rethink of cultural policy in the UKI write this from the National Rural Touring Forum conference in Nottingham " which includ…
Hampstead theatre, LondonIn Andrew Keatley's powerful play, a life is destroyed by a pupil's allegation of sexual assault, and shameful secrets are exposed'Is the accuser always holy now?" a…
London Palladium Toad, Badger, Mole and Rat are joined by new female characters in a fast-moving musical which ranges in style from Gilbert and Sullivan to raucous rockKenneth Grahame's 1908…
UnderbellyAlfie Brown is opening himself up to ridicule " more even than the comedian's usual share. The 25-year-old has set himself up as a passionate critic of our cultural life, and of th…
Drag king and gender activist whose performances and writing blazed a trail in feminist theatre and lesbian cultureA true original and provocateur, the performance artist, drag king and gend…
The eccentric poet, standup and actor on the things that make him laugh the most Continue reading...
Dottie Lux has been called 'the real names crusader' for helping fight back against a Facebook policy that queer users say is discriminatory When Caitlin Beach came out as a transgender woma…
Acclaimed British company runs workshops with Queensland groups 'to show people the wonderful form of self-expression dance can be'For the first time in its 85-plus year history, Britain's i…
Unicorn, LondonThis show hosted by grownups and kids is strange, messy and unsettling " and my 10-year-old companion finds plenty of thrills amid the wisecracking chaosImagine the children's…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThe experimental troupe's revival of their 1998 show catalogues disasters and failures to probe the ethics of entertainment"Nothing will come of nothing," says K…