Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonNew York company Nature Theater of Oklahoma's take on the US president is an ideas-packed, dance-adjacent comedy inspiring whoops and walkouts Is this show genius…
Diecast, part of Manchester international festivalThe convulsing figures in Tom Heyes' choreography, paired with intense sound and a guttural MC, are caught in a mesmerising struggle for hum…
Shakespeare's Globe, London Falstaff's corpulent roisterings are energetically played in Sean Holmes' summery staging but the homely comedy comes laden with innuendo and xeno…
Ballet dancer whose struggle to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 caused an international outcry that led to his release The virtuoso ballet dancer Valery Panov, who has died aged 87, became a …
★★ ★ ☆ ☆ / ★★★☆☆ Metronome / Rich Mix, London New works at Spitalfields music festival by Litha Efthymiou and Ninfea Cruttwell-Rea…
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonCallum and Sephy are a modern Romeo and Juliet, forced to grow up fast as they wade through the crushing racial and class structures that pin them in th…
The tragedy's mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker's Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play's problems I have long had mixed feelings about K…
Inspired by club culture and reincarnation, Tianzhuo Chen and Asian Dope Boys have devised a mesmerising show that unfolds in six two-hour chapters. Prepare to enter hell and then be healed …
Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return Growing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed …
The Guardian's theatre critic's imaginative exploration of life in the shadows Arifa Akbar, chief theatre critic of this newspaper, is used to working at night: the journey from curtain cal…
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonMinchin embraces his oddball status " is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? " in this three-hour show It's 20 years since Tim Minchin's life-changing Edinburgh…
Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict b…
In her 20s, the actor says, casting directors didn't rate her. In her 60s, she got her big break. She discusses fun, family, optimism, regrets " and wild sex on screen with Daniel Craig Anne…
Participants in the Matadero's inaugural Senior Audience School discover that theatre 'takes the sting out of the nonsense in life' The 25 people who have gathered in a small Madrid theatre …
'You can always find an intersection to Shakespeare's world in such situations as we have,' says translator, as Shakespeare productions boom across Ukraine The Ukrainian Shakespeare festival…
The film and opera director tells us what makes him laugh " which, as it turns out, is entirely Muppets Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email As one of the last of the analogue crossov…
Her kooky online skits brought her viral fame and a breakout role in HBO's Hacks. Then Lena Dunham came calling with the job of a lifetime. Is the actor ready to take centre stage? When Lena…
Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison's childhood homes remain unmarked " raising urgent questions about legacy and preservation Nothing could prepare me for seeing the house that Langston Hughe…
Watermill theatre, NewburyTim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1971 Biblical rock musical seems strikingly topical in this powerful staging, which has a large cast of actor-musicians and a Get…
Dancer and mime artist best known for her eponymous solo trilogy who also performed with David Bowie on film and stage The mime, clown and dancer Annie Stainer, who has died aged 79 of pneum…
Aviva Studios, ManchesterRiven in two by grief " with musician John Grant playing the mind and former Royal Ballet principal Ed Watson the body " lead character George takes a finely danced …
Theatre Royal BathIn 25 scenes spanning 1878-1966, David Hare's wry and elegant love letter to theatre focuses on the working and romantic relationship between Ellen Terry and Henry Irving W…
Emerald theatre, LondonA regal Von Teese oversees this uninspiring mix of chandelier-swinging cabaret, circus and dance featuring the Steps singer as a saloon owner with a string of exes Som…
Sadler's Wells East, London Taking rests when required, Candoco's integrated company capture the paradox of dancefloor abandonment Choreographer Dan Daw and the dancers from Candoco are cele…
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterNtombizodwa Nyoni's deft and nuanced play balances ideologies and ambition, personality clashes and generational conflict at key 1945 Manchester conference …