Royal Opera House, LondonSet to Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern is brave and beautiful alongside work by Christopher Wheeldon and David DawsonIt's bee…
From the cult sketch show to an imaginary Johnny Vegas metal band, the master observationalist dishes the things that make him laugh the mostThe Fast Show. Many sketch shows have tried to re…
The all-women Arslankoy Theatre Group performs plays about domestic violence and education in small villages in Turkey. Tara Todras-Whitehill spent time with the players in 2013, photographi…
Hampstead theatre, LondonSara Kestelman excels as an uncliched Jewish matriarch in Ryan Craig's punchily acted new play about an East End family firmIf plays survive by creating meaty roles …
Marius von Mayenburg squirmy satire is pitch perfect while James Cousins Company explore identity politics in a portrait of Shakespeare's Rosalind Plastic Continue reading...
Vincente Minnelli's daring MGM musical starred the 17-year-old Leslie Caron, had a staggeringly ambitious ballet sequence and became a surprise Oscar winner. Now it's become a Tony-winning s…
After musical dramas featuring a serial killer and a notorious libertine, the actor returns to the stage as a tyrant. He talks about playing sociopaths and why he gave up votingAccording to …
Hope Mill, Manchester The crusading off-Broadway musical, billed as 'the show Rodgers and Hammerstein never wrote', gets its UK premiereAs a venue specialising in new and rarely performed mu…
17 March 1977: Jackson spoke to the Guardian ahead of the opening of Hugh Whitemore's play about the late-blossoming poet from Palmers GreenGlenda Jackson met Stevie Smith on a poetry-readin…
As Wole Soyinka's blistering play about colonialism opens at the National, the Nobel laureate talks to Andrew Gumbel about suicide bombers, Churchill - and dancingWole Soyinka is explaining…
President's daughter sees Come From Way, a musical about welcoming strangers from abroad, as her father fights to bar millions from entering the USIt's the story of a remote Canadian town th…
With his vicious puppet and heavy drinking, Jeremy Lion is no ordinary clown. His creator talks to Brian LoganBy day, he is Justin Edwards: a modest and mild-mannered comic, one third of ske…
Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's 1983 musical has been revived once more. The show struck an important, rarely acknowledged blow for equalityWhen it opened in New York in 1983, La Cage au…
The Place, LondonJames Cousins deploys a language of sexual fluidity as his superb dancers bring passion and intimacy to a flirtation with Shakespeare's heroineIn James Cousins' bold reinven…
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup's letter to her teenage self prompts some fine routines about maturity, parenthood and suburban livingThere are only three types of standup show, jokes Lucy P…
In Flatshare, created by the comedy sketch trio Massive Dad for Comic Relief, two mates walk into the world of a US sitcom, complete with canned laughter. The sketch is part of the Comic Rel…
Sadler's Wells, London Sergei Polunin and Natalia Osipova bring star power to an ambitious dance programme but despite some beautiful moves it's a misjudged muddleEver since Sergei Polunin w…
The actor currently slinging punches in Twelfth Night talks about falling asleep before auditions, 10 years of horrendous teeth " and her love of 'proper fighting'In Simon Godwin's riotous, …
Public Theater, New YorkDespite handsome sets and a striking performance from Jo Lampert, this take on the tragic French warrior's life isn't quite as wild as it should beTheatergoers should…
Vaudeville, LondonThere are some spot-on performances in this West End revival of Richard Harris's likable play about budding hoofers in a church hallThe great tap-dance musical 42nd Street …
Photographer Sarah Lee was granted unique access to the preparations for Sergei Polunin's new triple bill, an ambitious collaboration with Ilan Eshkeri and David LaChapelle featuring Natalia…
Creator of the Sesame approach to drama and movement in therapyMarian "Billy" Lindkvist, who has died aged 97, was a pioneer in the use of drama and movement in therapy. The method she creat…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonAdults play confused adolescents in Matthew Whittet's playground drama, adding an extra layer of hope and sadness to their characters Related: Seventeen going on 70:…
Diverse programme will see nine operas, new Ayckbourn play and sets by PJ Harvey, Jarvis Cocker and Benjamin ClementineEdinburgh international festival is to mark its 70th year with a divers…
How can you tell if a sheep likes theatre? Or a pig is into dance? Fevered Sleep are staging a show for farmyard creatures " while humans decide if they're bleating for moreAlmost 10 years a…