Bristol Old VicThe story of an idealistic adult winning over a bunch of disaffected kids is a familiar one, but lifted by its sizzling castJunkyard is a new musical inspired by writer Jack T…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonOutstanding performances, including Roger Allam as Roy Jenkins, enliven a timely drama about the birth of the SDPIt was an Alice Through the Looking Glass press night…
Sherman Cymru, CardiffDespite fresh and lively performances, period language and modern behaviour clash to mixed effect"Fair Verona", Shakespeare's setting for the play is, in Kenny Miller's…
Audience member recounts how man jumped on stage before performance of Hand to God in New York hoping to charge his phoneTheater etiquette rules are fairly straightforward: don't be late, ke…
It's wrong to characterise 1930s theatre as escapist or frivolous. In Europe and America, many plays were alerting audiences to the dangers of fascism " led by the German fugitive Bertolt Br…
The actor, 61, on standing up to Trump, losing friends to Aids and falling apart at his weddingAngels in America is a timely play to be putting on. My character Roy Cohn was a lawyer and men…
The lyricist on his worst job, relationship regrets and the wise words his father said to himBorn in Buckinghamshire, Tim Rice, 72, is a lyricist. In the 60s, he teamed up with Andrew Lloyd …
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsKids film brawls on their mobile phones and flower memorials litter the set in an astonishing production that captures the play's sense of futilityWest Yorkshi…
In the late 1970s Alec McCowen gave his solo rendition of St Mark's Gospel at the Royal Festival Hall, London. He came on to a stage bare but for a table and chair, and said to the audience:…
The Pit, Barbican, LondonThe dancer turned choreographer presents two pieces themed around identity and sexual fluidity, featuring some gorgeously sophisticated sequencesJulie Cunningham has…
From Silver Lining to Roundelay, a handful of new shows focus on elderly people. Let's hope it leads to lasting change in the way they're represented on stageIn Sandi Toksvig's Silver Lining…
The character comic and star of BBC3's Pls Like on what makes her laugh the mostTony Law is probably the one who makes me laugh the most without knowing quite how I got there, which is a big…
Home, ManchesterDuncan Macmillan's adaptation of Auster's story becomes a jaw-dropping spectacle, but the cunning visuals come at the expense of emotional engagementIn Paul Auster's 1985 nov…
The Casanova biographer, whose work has inspired a new ballet, finds plenty of traces of the 18th-century lothario amid the city's canals, bars and alleywaysWriters from Casanova to Byron an…
Ivo van Hove's startling multimedia retelling of Shakespeare, and Kenneth Tindall's provocative ballet productionThe Roman Tragedies Continue reading...
Our political class is still struggling to make sense of the EU referendum. But thankfully our playwrights are finding the wordsThe Brexit referendum asked voters to make a simple choic…
Belasco Theatre, New YorkThe Oscar winner makes an indelible impression in an unusual and effective take on Tennessee Williams's American classicEntering the Belasco Theatre for the Broadway…
Harold Pinter theatre, London Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill are both superb as they trade insults and toy vindictively with their guests in a first-rate revival of an astonishing playThis…
Dancer Sergei Polunin gets a respectful and useful documentary, but we need a deeper investigation into this amazing dancer, hamstrung by his own demonsThis is a sympathetic, serviceable but…
Watermill, BagnorAdapted by and starring McDiarmid, this account of the Faustian pact features a fine Mephisto but doesn't succeed in bringing the play into the 21st centuryRegrets? We all h…
A rush of new plays offer fictionalised versions of Labour's 1981 split, the revamp of the Sun, a TV quizshow scandal and other real events. Playwrights James Graham and Steve Waters discuss…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonRoger Allam is astonishing as Roy Jenkins in this drama about how the 'gang of four' left Labour to form the SDPSteve Waters likes to peep behind closed doors. In Tem…
Highlights to include series of intimate shows by pop band and pioneering piece of music theatreA musical about Lancashire's cotton industry, an opera for babies and New Order reworking thei…
Limehouse's story of the party's 80s split mirrors this era so eerily that you could tell the audience was considering itThe time feels right. The then-and-now parallels are so painfully acu…
From Trainspotting to Isis to abortion, the festival is tackling big issues with a big heart " but there are moments of silliness and spectacle tooThe second-biggest fringe festival in the w…