Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThis risible production butchers the language, turns Juliet into a squawking, pampered princess and makes everyone dance to the Village PeopleDaniel Kramer, direct…
James Thierrée creates fairytale-style marvels, while the world's biggest hip-hop dance-theatre festival returns for its 14th year1 The Toad KnewAs weird as it is compelling, the latest fro…
Fed up with heckles, hostility and predatory promoters, Kiri Pritchard-McLean set out to detail the industry's misogyny in a raucous, revelatory performanceAre women funny? At a time when so…
Twenty-five years after it was first staged in London, Tony Kushner's wildly inventive play about the Aids crisis is back. The cast includes Nathan Lane, Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey and D…
The controversial US comic starts his UK tour, while the annual music marathon returns: your at-a-glance guide to the best in cultureReginald D HunterThe controversial US comic is back on to…
Golden Theater, New YorkLaurie Metcalf gives a thrilling performance in a speculative follow-up to Henrik Ibsen's defining 1879 masterworkThere are sofa plays and dinner table plays. Plays a…
Blue plaque event at Gielgud home prompts dismay over 'actor apathy', unclear speech and dumbed down ShakespeareDame Judi Dench has accused younger actors of apathy and laziness and caring l…
Michael Bogdanov was a great sports fan. He was always an excitable man, and boasted that he had destroyed the family sofa while watching the 1966 World Cup final, so involved had he become …
Theatre Royal, YorkA flashing-eyed performance from Phoebe Pryce is undermined by a too-literal production featuring a roaring fire " and a real canine co-starBranwell Brontë's gift to po…
Chichester Festival theatreDaniel Evans directs a patchy and slightly chaotic revival of Alan Bennett's comedy about a Britain torn between tradition and progressDaniel Evans made such a suc…
Theatre Royal, YorkOriginally produced in 1968, Alan Bennett's first full-length stage play is not, strictly speaking, a play at all, but an old-school revue set in a very old school. The mi…
Jakop Ahlbom combines stage magic with references to classic scary movies in a cult show that returns the horror genre to the theatreJakop Ahlbom has created a monster. The Swedish theatre d…
Royal Festival Hall, LondonNic Green's alternative party conference draws on Conservatives' soundbites to conjour grief at the destructive power of politicsThe best theatre often has a shape…
Polka, London The dotty TV duo and their friend Scarf Lady become puppets in a touring stage show that should satisfy ardent fans aged three to sixSome swoon at the gentle dottiness of CBeeb…
Soho theatre, LondonFlashes of tenacious positivity illuminate a gleeful set that ranges over Willan's troubled early years in care, from teenage delinquency to a run-in with SantaRebellious…
Barbican, LondonJude Law stars in Ivo van Hove's classy stage adaptation of Luchino Visconti's 1942 film that just falls short of original's atmospheric detailJude Law is the big draw in thi…
When the Paris Commune fell, she was deported to a remote, mosquito-ridden island in the South Pacific " where she found new freedom fighters to support. Our writer retraces her steps and st…
Charing Cross theatre, LondonThis new French musical about the teenager who came up with a new system of reading and writing is busy, dizzy and emotionally overwroughtThom Southerland triump…
Vaudeville, LondonPhil Davis and Sinéad Cusack star in Nicolas Kent's verbatim staging of the US Senate's confirmation hearings of four of Donald Trump's political appointeesOne of the most…
Reaction is divided to The Drowned Man, Punchdrunk's vast Hollywood promenade show. Has it been overhyped? Or should audiences go prepared to dig deeper for their experience?The reviews are …
You need sensible shoes and a stout heart for this dazzling and exhausting evening inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.Poe-faced ... River Carmalt, Adam Burton and Jack Laskey in The Masque of the R…
Punchdrunk are staging their biggest show yet " a descent into the Hollywood dream factory " in a vast west London building. But have the interactive mavericks reached theatre's outer l…
Punchdrunk scour cities for places to house their theatre spectaculars. Now they've even created a fully functioning village " complete with cosy pubA wood stove is burning in the pub. Candl…
Austen Lynch on Shakespeare's folk sources and Jan Dubé on the gods that permeate the languageThe Royal Shakespeare Company's project to celebrate the myth and magic of the influence of Ovi…
Along with Konstantin Stanislavski, Vsevelod Meyerhold was the leading theatrical innovator of the early 20th century, certainly in Russia and arguably the world. A victim of Stalin's purges…