The comedian and I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! runner-up on the things that make him laugh the mostI remember seeing Frank Skinner do a set at Banana Cabaret in Balham about a year …
A new production of Alan Bennett's Forty Years On has Richard Wilson playing the headmaster. Take a look at theatre's best school staff through the yearsForty Years On is at Chichester Festi…
Theatre Works, St Kilda, MelbourneThe French saint's wordless rage roars to life in The Rabble's feminist and overtly physical retelling of the age-old tragedyFirst, there is darkness. Sound…
How do you tell the story of the 'gaysian' drag scene? With killer heels, pineapple hats and lots of duct tape. We go backstage at Miss Meena and the Masala QueensAn actor waits for his scen…
Macrobert Arts Centre, StirlingIts bewildering mix of projections, music and ariel work makes Mark Murphy's show about a coma patient a technical marvel, but the story is ultimately prosaicI…
Royal Court, LondonSimon Stephens' experimental new piece about grief and urban alienation is intentionally 'fluid and contradictory' " but also baffling and obscureSimon Stephens is clearly…
Bunker, LondonThe homeless people's theatre company Cardboard Citizens takes a long look at housing, from Victorian slum life and 70s squatting to present day inequalitiesThe national shorta…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickNicholas Pierpan's ambitious drama explores a dark year in the poet's lifeOn the one hand there is the wonder of a mind that makes the world anew with words; on t…
Bush theatre, LondonBrilliantly designed, Rajiv Joseph's philosophical, whimsical play brings immensity to a small space at the refurbished west London theatreThe rejigged, refreshed Bush th…
Laban theatre, London; and touringThe choreographer and the film-maker delve into the supposed New World Order in a wildly ambitious new workFor decades, the CIA and the Walt Disney corporat…
The celebrated actor on her new play with Damian Lewis, why performing is an adventure, and leaving London for the countrySophie Okonedo was born in 1968 in London and studied at Rada. She h…
The former National Theatre director talks about his new memoir and the launch of his latest venture, the Bridge " the capital's first commercial theatre in 80 yearsNicholas Hytner makes sev…
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath; Trafalgar Studios, LondonPlaywright Christopher Hampton's talents are illuminated in two clever satires skewering the literary and academic lifeWho would…
With an impeccable pedigree, The Pajama Game was a surefire hit in the golden age of the musical. As his revival transfers to London's West End, Richard Eyre discusses a work that's bee…
The Old Vic, we read, is "going dark" for the summer: a far more expressive phrase than being "shut", since it implies the temporary extinction of light. But it's also a potent reminder that…
Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo and Akram Khan are onboard, and contemporary, hip-hop and South Asian dance are added to the usual ballet fare. But there are flaws in this conceptDoes the dance w…
The broadcaster's play Keeping in Touch, aired on Radio 4, is a reply to the classic 1978 drama about the pair's clandestine seven-year relationship"Truth in drama is forever elusive," said …
Lucy McCormick's taboo-busting show depicts religion as a female-marginalising death cult " and does it hilariously. Though some feminists may find it difficultIt's rare to see a truly avant…
The Other Palace, LondonSet in a haunted lighthouse during the second world war, Duncan Sheik's rock musical features a plot as wisp-like as the phantoms on the stageComposed by Duncan Sheik…
British actor who found global fame in the rebooted Star Wars franchise to take lead role on London stageLike many overnight sensations, John Boyega worked on his craft for a very long time …
Royal Exchange, ManchesterOpera director Jo Davies' musical mastery shines through in a production made all the more absorbing by its gender-fluid castingGender fluidity is in vogue for Twel…
Richmond theatreHunter's mercurial logic takes him into territory other comics don't occupy … but sometimes leads him astrayReginald D Hunter begins with an apology to audiences who know h…
Laban theatre, LondonIn a stylish collaboration, the film-maker and choreographer explore the myth of a shadowy cult attempting world domination through mass brainwashingAgainst a rising tid…
The American comedian explains how his relationship with his mother affected his life and how you have to leave your home to make sense of itI'm the fourth funniest person in my family, but …
Company aims to reignite interest in Ovid, whose book the Metamorphoses is alluded to in some of the Bard's playsShakespeare's favourite classical poet, Ovid, inspired him with myth, magic a…