Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonMaureen Lipman's brisk bureaucrat is a perfect complement to Felicity Kendal's gutsy exhibitionist in a revival of Peter Shaffer's heritage satireYou might ha…
From Coppélia and Pygmalion to Mannequin and Buffybot, artists love playing games with lifesize dolls. It's a trail of lust, obsession and beheadingsCoppélia is one of the sillier corners …
She has made films about a gay club in LA that became a phenomenon and rewritten history as sapphic martial arts. Enters the dazzling world of trans artist Wu TsangBy chance, I recently foun…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAletta Collins considers a mother's memories in her new work, part of a triple bill that includes a revival of Christopher Bruce's classic Ghost DancesAletta Collins is…
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsHow did people eat the oranges that …
The biblical sorceress dances across two of Britain's stages this summer, in shows at the National and the RSC. Explore past versions of the story, from Marisa Tomei and Zawe Ashton's perfor…
Young Vic, LondonThe Atonement director presents the story of the astronomer with a kaleidoscopic theatricality that increasingly detracts from Brecht's textIt is a sign of Bertolt Brecht's …
Swan, Stratford-on-AvonA reactionary pope dies, only to be succeeded by a seeming liberal who soon reverts to institutional conservatism. You could hardly have a more topical play than this.…
In tune with our sceptical times, magicians debunk the supernatural. But are they really as rationalist as they claim?Richard Dawkins may or may not approve, but I was reading my daughter a …
Atlantic Theater, New YorkA show filled with masterful mind-reading and nifty tricks successfully announces the celebrated mentalist's stateside arrival off-BroadwayDon't lie to Derren Brown…
Octagon, Bolton Cathy Tyson stars in Timberlake Wertenbaker's ambitious play which debates the choices politicised women face, from ancient Athens to modern BritainTimberlake Wertenbaker's n…
As naive adviser Ollie Reeder in The Thick Of It, stand-up Chris Addison usually ends up as the fall guy in a disastrous political stunt. He still gets Johnny Dee's vote every timeIn Armando…
Tom Marshman's raw one-man show uses lip-synching and dancing to remember the lost pubs and clubs where LGBT people partied and campaignedDolled-up clubbers clattered through dimly lit stree…
He became a father figure to me " I gravitated towards his brilliant mind, his wealth of experience and his ruthlessnessDue to the turnover in our business, actors' working relationships wit…
Arcola theatre, LondonHicks has the power to give individual words a wealth of meaning in his portrayal of a villain driven by infantile dreams and private demonsHot on the heels of an accla…
When the Chinese-Australian dancer moved to Shanghai to rediscover her roots, she instead found a city desperate to shed its past and embrace anything foreign "Filth" is an acronym familiar …
As Radio 4 seems unable to find enough comics to offset its left-wing output, Comic Relief says sorry for offence caused by Frankie Boyle at Russell Brand's Give It Up eventChristmas comes e…
He's a likable performer capitalising on the idea that most of his fellow comedians are lefties. So is Norcott's show Conswervative more wind-up than battle cry?"Have I got any Tories in?" G…
Old Red Lion, London An oil-rig worker exiled in Aberdeen comes to terms with parental responsibility in Mark Weinman's odd-couple playJames (Scott Arthur) has exiled himself from his Welsh …
It's not 'low' to point out that when Theresa May says the same thing over and over again she sounds as if she has dementia. It's a joke Dad would appreciateA couple of days ago, having seen…
When the playwright was asked to adapt Georg Büchner's fragmented masterpiece he screamed inside. He explains how he got to the soul of the playGeorg Büchner's Woyzeck is a triumphant howl…
Lilian Baylis studio, Sadler's Wells, LondonThe audience becomes the performance in this eight-hour cycle that puts Whitney Houston and drum'n'bass alongside historical world eventsProject O…
The French film director on being haunted by Under the Skin, the music of La Femme, and the place where he had his first kissBorn in 1967 in Paris, film-maker and screenwriter François Oz…
Tony Kushner's 1991 play Angels in America broke the silence about Aids. As a revival wows audiences at the National, he talks about how the world has changedTony Kushner flew in to London f…
The ex-Globe director's account of his project to stage Hamlet in every country in the world is full of life lessonsOver the course of former Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole's begu…