Theatre Royal, YorkBridget Foreman's moving, resonant play combines outdoor performance, newsreel footage and a huge local cast to memorable effectOutside York Minster, a pro-democracy demon…
The Palestinian-Irish playwright talks about the challenges of researching The Scar Test, her new play about the plight of women at Yarl's Wood detention centreHannah Khalil's new play, The …
One of our great actors has announced his retirement at the age of 60 after the completion of his next filmWhen I was a stage-struck kid I was lucky enough to see the three great British the…
A play by Michael Moore is the latest to push blockbuster musicals asideNew York's Broadway is not normally known for political theatre " blockbuster musicals will do " but, it seems, the ti…
Critic's play shows how the famous actor's arrest was part of the 1950s homosexual witch-huntsThe scandal that almost ended the career of Sir John Gielgud is to be brought to the London stag…
Actor who played assassin Marcus Brutus in a controversial production of Julius Caesar wrote in Vulture that the cast left 'exhausted and nervous' by final showCorey Stoll, the actor who pla…
Dancers compete in the annual international tango festival in Colombia's second-largest city. The event, in its 11th year, also includes workshops and concerts Continue reading...
The actor's former creations include a psychopathic teacher and an adulterous husband. Now the son of a former Guardian journalist is to play Rupert Murdoch in a new play, InkAs the son, gra…
Prosecutors investigating The Curse, which condemns authorities for failing to respond to allegations of child abuse by clergyThe producers of a controversial play in Poland are being invest…
It has staged shows in a barn in Perthshire, a forest in Mid Argyll and now on a Glasgow canal. This shape-shifting company puts place at the heart of its playsFor two or three centuries, na…
The Guardian's pioneering dramatic collaboration inspired by last year's EU referendum offers characters who lay bare our complex national responses A year on from last summer's Brexit vote,…
The Danish comedian and podcast host on the things that make her laugh the most, from Will Smith to The Green ButchersIrish comic Alison Spittle. She will candidly talk about peeing in a pin…
Race fuels the drama behind the Orange Tree's latest hit, while Alain Platel of Les Ballets C de la B returns with a darkly surreal performance1 RotterdamAlice has been living in Rotterdam f…
The jazz festival returns, Jon Brittain's Olivier-winning play transfers to the Arts theatre and a porcine eco-fable lands on NetflixCommittee … (A New Musical)This play at London's Donmar…
A new show, Terror, restores drama to its classical function by asking us to make a moral decision. But it doesn't go nearly far enoughDrama invites judgment. One of the oldest plays in the …
When critics analyse a standup routine it's considered pedantic and joyless " what's wrong with being serious about comedy?Theatre critics are seldom called pedants for analysing how a stage…
"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star." So Ruby Keeler was famously told by Warner Baxter in the movie of 42nd Street. And that classic line about understu…
In a long-running tour, the supercilious standup brings back old gags, leaving a bad smell " and a loveless worldview " in his wake'I'm jealous of bands," Jimmy Carr told the NME when his cu…
The actor is retiring " and those of us used to playing angry policemen or affable dads could see just how exceptional his talent isIt's the news I've been waiting for. Daniel Day-Lewis, one…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThere are shades of Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' merciless modern satire, set in the offices of a Manhattan magazineNothing can qui…
Malthouse theatre, MelbourneThis audacious production explores the idea of theatre " and gender " as a construct, and is a testament to the strength of feminist performance in AustraliaI've …
Bush theatre, LondonGender roles and domestic politics are the targets for fierce satire in this savagely funny drama about a soldier who returns to a broken home A marine returning weary fr…
Tap thunders into new territory, 25 performers make 10,000 moves, Lady Macbeth is laid bare and a young boy goes on a journey through gender transition' Summer arts preview 2017: TV | Comedy…
They squeeze into alcoves, pile up by litter trays and pose for family photos with chairs on their heads. Meet the dance troupe making no living room safeI walk through the front door to fin…
Coliseum, LondonJim Steinman's perky lyrics are often overpowered in this musical juggernaut, but his roaring choruses and fairytale plot are built for the ENO's stageSeveral of the songs on…