Brighton DomeWith its unorthodox seating, shape-shifting set and even dancers hatching from eggs, this show makes up for some awkward pacing with a wealth of ideas In the brief prologue to T…
The summer solstice is upon us, and the Royal Shakespeare Company is about to launch its interactive Google performance of the play " so what better way to celebrate than to test your knowle…
The role of the hairdresser in African culture is the subject of a new play, while the best new independent cinema is screened in LondonSaloméThe RSC's new, contemporary take on Oscar Wilde…
The Star Wars actor is now on stage in Woyzeck, and will answer your questions in a live webchat from 1pm BST on Tuesday 30 May " post them in the comments below 5.31pm BST John Boyega insta…
Albany, LondonInspired by testimony from refugees, aid workers and journalists, Rob Johnston's drama homes in on the streets of AleppoIt took thousands of years to build Aleppo and only a fe…
Richard Twyman revives Shakespeare with style, Ontroerend Goed explore feminism and Akram Khan looks at the past through Bangladesh and Britain1 OthelloRichard Twyman's revival is a real cra…
When actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah left the UK to become artistic director of Baltimore's Center Stage theatre in 2011 he jumped headfirst into America's racial politics…Kwame Kwei…
Shakespeare's Globe, London Sailor-suited dancers and a disco soundtrack add a party atmosphere to Shakespeare's comedy but drown out its melancholyThe peremptory treatment of Emma Rice by t…
The Zimbabwe-born writer found her passion for words as a teenager in Yorkshire. Her new play, Ode to Leeds, explores its in-your-face poetry sceneHome is a complicated idea. The Yorkshire-b…
Crucible, SheffieldRobert Hastie's electric staging, with Jonathan Hyde and Samuel West, offers a resonant take on the manipulative power of rhetoric There's a moment in Robert Hastie's taut…
The British playwright, who works as the artistic director of the Baltimore Center Stage theatre, talks about the role of art in troubled times like theseAs a Briton who has lived in America…
The idea of white actors making themselves up as black is shocking to most of us " and yet a theatre in Germany has seen fit to continue the tradition. Why?Most news stories " government in …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghRona Morison is a smart, vivacious and quick-witted queen in Linda McLean's poetic historical drama, directed by David GreigWe're in the court of Mary, Queen of Scots …
Underbelly festival, London Flip FabriQue's circus skills dazzle as they deliver 75 minutes of pleasure but the show's sole female performer is reduced to playing a stereotypical roleCirque …
Cush Jumbo is back home in Britain to star in Common, a wild drama about sex and murder in 1800s London. She talks about filming a Josephine Baker biopic " and her new friend 'Mezza' StreepL…
Old Vic, LondonWhereas Georg Büchner's original masterpiece allows audience to fill in the blanks, Thorne's adaptation piles the pressure on the title characterThis production has a lot goi…
Hampstead Downstairs, LondonMatt Hartley's play about friends caught up in the London housing crisis laces comedy with some tough philosophisingThe streets of London are supposedly paved wit…
Southbank Centre, LondonSiddhartha Bose's multi-generational epic has grand ambitions and a laudable cast but is hamstrung by a meandering plotAfter 70 years of independence, how far has Ind…
In the aftermath of some future disaster, a group of strangers reach for a shared language. The result is comic, melancholy and deeply unsettlingIn the first line of Joan Didion's 1979 essay…
With a book, a film and a TV series on the horizon, the playwright and actor has reached a career tipping point " and has a teacher she'd like to thankWhen Leah Purcell was in grade seven, h…
The decision of Edward Albee's estate to deny production rights over the casting choice of a black actor has reignited a debate over theater's relationship with raceLast week, a casting dire…
Tron, GlasgowMoral questions about our complicity in war are muddied in this Faustian tale of a musician selling his soul for a shot at successThings were going well for Jake Rae in 1998. Hi…
The last performance of the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus spurs its ringmaster to reflect on 'the bedrock of American pop culture' after 146 yearsThe clowns and acrobats delig…
The playwright's adaptation of The Drover's Wife will soon tour nationally and abroad, and may become a TV series " with a film already in the works The Indigenous Australian playwright, ac…
Drawing on his memories of Northern Ireland, and images of violence from the Middle East, the author returns to the violent story of Clytemnestra and her childrenIn September 1986 I sat on a…