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This Broadway musical inspired by Tupac has some exhilarating dance numbers. If only we could care about the charactersPour one out for Holler if Ya Hear Me, the dead-on-arrival Broadway juk…
What did the reviewers make of the Broadway musical inspired by the rapper's music?The curtain has gone up on Holler If Ya Hear Me, a Broadway stage musical giving the ever-popular "jukebox …
31 May 1990: Marianne Brace reports on a comic career that spans 50 yearsAthene Seyler is 101 years old today. Edward VII was king when she made her first professional stage appearance " 'qu…
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis, of all Shakespeare's plays, badly needs a shot in the arm " and it receives a powerful one in this production by Gregory Doran, the RSC's …
Kirill Kukhmar visits Novosibirsk state ballet school. The school was founded in the Soviet era by teachers and former dancers of Leningrad's Kirov ballet and is considered to be one of the …
The intimate Octagon theatre in Bolton has launched its 50th anniversary season. Take a look at some of its landmark productions from local playwrights Bill Naughton and Jim Cartwright and s…
South Africa's theatre of resistance, as penned by the likes of Athol Fugard, roared around the world, bringing pressure to bear on the regime back homeIn dramatic writing, it's good if your…
Vanessa Redgrave, the reigning matriarch of Britain's most famous acting dynasty, veteran of stage and screen and a radical Trotskyist, has always claimed her first love is revolutionary pol…
Finborough, LondonAn Iranian teacher is confronted by one of her former pupils in Matt Parvin's claustrophobic two-hander about social and racial prejudiceMatt Parvin is a young, Dorset-born…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghLast year, he failed to deliver a lecture on "Egyptologics". This year, it's the story of the Bible that Count Arthur Strong is finding frustratingly difficult to te…
A range of productions have tasked themselves with reflecting the current political climate in the US, from Alec Baldwin playing Rex Tillerson to a savage re-imagining of Julius CaesarAn act…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonA funny encounter in the shadow of the Large Hadron Collider and a fractious dinner party feature in a double bill at the RSC's Mischief festivalThe groun…
London PalladiumThe malapropisms and garbled logic, plus a near-fatal encounter with Benedict Cumberbatch's name, make Steve Delaney's comedy character a giddying delightNot the least of the…
Old Vic, LondonThe Star Wars actor is impressive in Jack Thorne's reworking of George Büchner's unfinished playGeorge Büchner's Woyzeck was left unfinished at the playwright's death (at 23…
Glyndebourne, LewesThe Russian soprano makes a remarkable festival debut in this fine revival of Tom Cairns's 2014 productionPity lies at the core of Tom Cairns's brilliantly conceived 2014 …
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe outgoing artistic director's farewell season hits a glorious high as Shakespeare meets Studio 54Twelfth Night reserves its sharpest barbs for purists and purit…
Royal Court, LiverpoolThe celebrated American choreographer swings into town for Sgt Pepper's 50th birthday partyIn May 1967, 50 years ago last Friday, the Beatles released their eighth stud…
Two decades ago, Susannah Clapp filed her first theatre review for the Observer. Here, she reflects on the quirks of the job, the joy of spotting new stars " and how the role of the critic h…
The actor, 42, on being part of an acting dynasty, what makes her angry and why she finds painting garden furniture so satisfyingI've played Dr Nikki Alexander in Silent Witness for so long …
He may be nearing 60 but Mark Morris has no time for looking back. The great choreographer is too busy swearing, feuding " and creating dazzling dance. Judith Mackrell sees him in actionWith…
Orange Tree, RichmondBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's extraordinary play is both an adaptation of a 19th-century melodrama and a dazzling postmodernist critique of itIf I say that this bizarrely bri…
The much-loved actor has conquered radio and TV, comedy and drama. Now she is heading to the West End stage " the realisation of a childhood dream The name Miranda Hart has become synonymous…
The comedian and Radio 4 host on the things that make him laugh the most, from Smack the Pony to his barberI remember thinking I'd snapped a rib laughing at Tom Stade at Birmingham's Glee Cl…
Royal Court, LiverpoolUsing a bold new score from Ethan Iverson, the choreographer has created a gorgeously entertaining and witty tribute to the classic Beatles albumWith Mark Morris it alw…
This year's Manchester international festival features a new gig-theatre show exploring how the US civil war created a cotton famine which caused catastrophe for Lancashire's mills. It's the…
