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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…
Our production, Safe, offers a light-hearted look at everyday challenges in the social care sector As the artistic director of Spare Tyre, I've been fortunate to work on a range of theatre p…
Every day millions of internet users ask Google life's most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queriesIf you've asked why theatre matters, there's e…
The comic has been accused of transphobia after riffing about Caitlyn Jenner in his standup show. So does giving him a favourable review endorse those gags?Ricky Gervais sometimes gets peopl…
Distinctive supporting actor on television, stage and filmTony Haygarth, who has died aged 72, was a salt-of-the-earth Liverpudlian actor who became a familiar face on television in series s…
Polka theatre, London It may take more than a sprinkle of fairy dust to repair the relationship in Toby Hulse's new play, which is inspired by the enchanted comedyBefore the show, I ask Qeiv…
Rose theatre, KingstonApril De Angelis's inventive and fluid five-and-a-half-hour production spans 50 years in its characters' lives, and makes clear the books' feminist messageI am normally…
AC Arts Main theatre, Adelaide festivalMotus performer Silvia Calderoni explores gender and androgyny and tells a story of violence, pain, confusion and acceptanceAt first glance, it's music…
Rosie Kay has trained with the army and delved into tribal rituals for her bold dance shows. In her latest, MK Ultra, she's investigating the secret society believed to be brainwashing Beyon…
Sharp intake of breath on reading Chitra Ramaswamy's statement that Pembrokeshire is the only coastal national park (Last Night's TV, G2, 8 March). True, it is the only fully coastal on…
Veteran character actor who appeared in The Italian Job, Prime Suspect and Footballers WivesJohn Forgeham, who has died aged 75, was a hard-living actor who brought some of his off-screen qu…
Facing death threats, Ahmad Joudeh risked everything to give Damascus children dance lessons. Now the Palestinian dances for the Dutch National Ballet Half a year ago, ballet dancer Ahmad Jo…
Several members of the theatre company in WrocÅ‚aw have registered objections to Cezary Morawski's 'old-fashioned' approach, and moves for his dismissal could trigger a standoff between l…
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea Picking on the audience is engaging more than cruel as Brydon riffs and ad-libs with seasoned charm in his new tourLined with retirement bungalows and hol…
David Tennant's Don Juan saunters into Soho, Cardiff hosts a Cock and Bull story and Mark Thomas's tale of activism and memory heads to NewcastleJack Thorne and Stephen Warbeck's loveable mu…
London arts space is holding a fund-raising auction and inviting the public to contribute ideas for the Phoenix season to mark reopening of grand hall next yearIt is two years to the day sin…
Garrick theatre, London The audience is clobbered into submission by an anything-for-a-laugh Molière adaptation that casts Lee Mack " in his theatre debut " as the sane oneI guess, since we…
'It was a volcano erupting " we had to climb to the very top before throwing ourselves into eternity'We had won three world championships by the time the 1984 Winter Olympics came around, so…
In 1995, when the Soho theatre was potentially homeless, we were getting desperate and thought we had found a building owned by the banking group Nomura. I was the theatre's artistic directo…
Employees at the West End branch of the restaurant now sing showtunes for customers. Will it lead to empty chairs at empty tables?Charlotte Chalkey and Aaron Rahn have only recently graduate…
National Theatre, London Britannia is shown to be fractious and divided in this bold but fragmented piece " built from interviews with UK voters " that does not tell us anything newTom Stopp…
In my humble, non-reviewer opinion, no single actor dominates this radical yet perfectly balanced production at the GlobeThanks to the World Shakespeare festival, one of the Cultural Olympia…
Old Vic, LondonDaniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire's split-second timing ensures this well-judged production of Stoppard's classic fizzes with lifeWhen as a schoolgirl I saw Rosencrantz and …
Harold Pinter, LondonPrepare for a high-wire showdown in James Macdonald's fine production of Albee's caustic classicNo one is going to accuse Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? of being too sh…
Barbican, LondonJulie Cunningham's first works as head of her own company have passion and subtlety, but struggle to compete with a forceful spoken soundtrackWhen dancers become choreographe…
