Audiences have been asked not to consume food at a new show. Theatre is a collective act of concentration " it's spoiled by constant chomping and slurpingHallelujah! Imelda Staunton has had …
In the juvenile prison of Wiesbaden in Germany there are more than 300 inmates, including returning Isis fighters from Syria. A pilot project by the German government seeks to reintegrate in…
David Greig's astounding Aeschylus rewrite reaches Manchester, while An American in Paris comes to the West End and the Menier Chocolate Factory revives RattiganThe Tony award-winning musica…
Barbican, LondonThis eclectic triple bill draws inspiration from Debussy and Shostakovich before concluding with a riotous rendering of Little Red Riding HoodThere are so many shining ways i…
Hull Truck theatre, HullMark Addy and Caroline Quentin star in Richard Bean's gag-heavy satirical tale of a 17th-century city governor navigating the outbreak of civil warThere is exemplary …
Rich Mix, LondonParsons proves himself a distinctive narrative voice with his compelling new work about a fictional celebrityWayne Parsons is a familiar figure on the UK contemporary dance s…
Octagon, BoltonDavid Rudkin's 1972 play about an infertile couple is revived to intimate, funny and touching effectCiaran Bagnall's set is starkly impersonal in its shiny whiteness and sculp…
The dancer turned choreographer on gender, her new company, and the highs and lows of working with Merce CunninghamIn September 2016, Julie Cunningham became the first recipient of the Lever…
Almeida, LondonScott brings total empathy to the title role in Robert Icke's inspired production Robert Icke is one of the most important forces in today's theatre. He blew the dust from Ore…
Copeland becomes first African American woman to be named company's principal dancer in defiance of personal injuries and institutional standardsAmerican ballerina Misty Copeland has made hi…
She was caught between her impoverished mother and the ballet mistress who offered her a way out. Aaron Hicklin meets Misty Copeland, the first black principal at the American Ballet Theatre…
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThe ghost of a wronged widow hovers over a modern industrial town in the RSC's intriguing update of a 13th-century playThis is a genuine curiosity. As part of its mi…
Birmingham Rep A dysfunctional couple do battle with a body in their bedroom in Sean Foley's off-kilter adaptation of Ionesco's comedyAmong Eugène Ionesco's full-length absurdist dramas, Th…
A new play aims to show teenagers and people in their 70s how similar they are. Joanna Moorhead talks to the director and cast about crossing the generational divideMichael Feast and Roger S…
Versatile entertainer and Mrs Alfred MarksThe actor and singer Paddie O'Neil, who has died aged 83, was best known for many stage and screen appearances with her husband, Alfred Marks, but s…
Ustinov Studio, BathMarius von Mayenburg skewers pretensions and hypocrisies with this study of a self-involved familyNobody likes doing the chores. But Ulrike (Charlotte Randle) and Michael…
The flamboyant standup on the things that make him laugh the most, from cult books and Tim Vine to reindeer's blood pancakes"Fuck off Nick Grimshaw". Wherever I go, people angrily insist tha…
Thorne, composer Stephen Warbeck, director Jeremy Herrin and a fantastic ensemble deliver a show that celebrates young people's sense of adventureFiz, Ginger, Tilly and the others aren't eve…
The Place, London With its violent seesaws between darkness and tender insight, Pita's macabre cabaret confirms the choreographer as one of his generation's leading storytellersWith his rece…
Christopher Luscombe's 20th-century take on Shakespeare lights up the theatre world, while Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx team up for a balletMuch Ado About Nothing Continue re…
The star of The Affair and Hedda Gabler is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat at 1pm on Tuesday 7 March 4.58pm GMT Since her Bafta-nominated breakthrough as Jane Eyre in 2…
From the towering stone backdrop to the flitting dragonflies at sunset, the tragic story of European invasion is heightened by the elements The abandoned Anstey Hill quarry is one of several…
Harrington's Pie and Mash Shop, LondonThis clever pie-shop staging of Sondheim's musical walks the tightrope between grisly and comic in its tiny chamber of horrorsWho knows if Harrington's …
Production first staged in south London venue has won over US critics after transferring to a theatre off Broadway It began with a brief run in a south London pie and mash shop, with the pro…
Though it has a storyline you couldn't make up, this play about a transplant and friendship has a jumpy and unfocused frameworkOn opening night of Mark Colvin's Kidney " in a tense, funny sc…