Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonBest shines as a flirtatious widow in Trevor Nunn's update of a Terence Rattigan rewriteLove in Idleness is second division Rattigan, a 1944 rewriting of Less…
Barbican, LondonCoriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra all together, in Dutch, fly by in Van Hove's extraordinary critique of the way we consume newsIvo van Hove has, with his co…
Royal Court, LondonRobert Evans all but disappears in Simon McBurney's adaptation of the Hollywood producer's rollercoaster memoirRobert Evans, the Hollywood producer, maintains that what ma…
The director on the challenges and rewards of making interactive theatre for the very young and for young people with complex disabilitiesDirector and writer Tim Webb, 70, co-founded Oily Ca…
Sadler's Wells, LondonEnglish National Ballet's latest triple bill offers a chance for company dancers to shine. Some hesitate, but others seize their momentIn the five years since she was m…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe first UK company to perform Pina Bausch's epic piece hurl themselves against exhaustion as they draw us into a world of hypnotic emotionDancers were everything to P…
The gruff standup comic and consummate panel show pro on the things that make him laugh the mostI am a big fan of Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Sadly i…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonJosette Simon seems born to play Cleopatra, but the dissection of tyranny in Julius Caesar makes it the thrilling highlight of this Roman double…
Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire let the sparks fly in Tom Stoppard's comedy, and ex-Riverdancer Breandán de Gallaà duets with Nick O'ConnellRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Co…
Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley have starred in his bleakly funny, sometimes dowright horrible plays. As The Treatment is revived at the Almeida, Martin Crimp talks about how his wo…
Larry Lamb played Archie Mitchell in EastEnders for two years, basing him on his bullying father. What's he going to do next?The rehearsal room for Educating Rita sits high up on a corner of…
Royal Court, LondonSimon McBurney's adaptation of the Hollywood tycoon's memoir is technically brilliant and often breathtaking but it adds little to his familiar storyRobert Evans's Hollywo…
Soho theatre, LondonLight-hearted but trenchant, Ilyas's show Made in Britain keeps the audience on their toes as he focuses on what unites, rather than divides usAfter the EU referendum res…
In hit movies like 42nd Street, Berkeley liberated dance from the stage and placed it in a purely cinematic dimension with dizzyingly inventive routinesA new West End production of 42nd Stre…
The great German stage actor is thrilling new audiences with SS-GB and Personal Shopper. Our writer talks menace and murder with him over schnitzel in BerlinWhen Lars Eidinger first appeared…
The comedian's two specials on Netflix have their moments, but for one of the most revered stand-ups of his era the material is often disappointingly flatThere is a mystique that surrounds e…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDominic Hill's production of this sharply observed comedy is at its best when mocking the social embarrassments of polite societyNoël Coward's silly, subversive 192…
Dave Chappelle talks to late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel about his two new comedy specials. Asked why he released two shows at once after such a long hiatus, he jokingly replied: 'Money.' Cha…
Influential US choreographer first admired for her spare, subversive dances who underwent a radical shift as she was gripped by 'a rapture to move'Trisha Brown, who has died aged 80, was wid…
Derby theatreThe spartan flat used for an affair becomes a squash court in Lekan Lawal's overthought, revolving staging of this misogynistic 1978 playAdultery was a lot simpler back in 1978,…
Five Easy Pieces, staged at Manchester's Sick! festival, explores the case of the Belgian paedophile and murderer. Director Milo Rau explains why he chose to let children tell the storyWhen …
The choice to go into comedy coincided with the sharp descent of Nikki Britton's love life. Here, she examines whyAs I sit here alone on a Sunday night, hairy-legged and bloated, typing the …
Dominion, LondonChristopher Wheeldon's superb show is a riot of colour and movement, with irresistible dance routines and a wealth of Gerhswin classicsA magical transformation has taken plac…
Eve Best plays Cleopatra in a new production at Shakespeare's Globe. From Liz Taylor to Mark Rylance, here's a reminder of the other stars who have ruled as the Egyptian leader' Review: Eve …
As she becomes the first black woman to play Cleopatra at Stratford, Josette Simon explains why there is so much more to the queen than a strumpetAs Josette Simon neared the end of her drama…