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Scott, best known as Sherlock's Moriarty, is playing the highest-profile Hamlet since Benedict Cumberbatch took on the role in 2015. Here is an exclusive first look at the production Continu…
Pioneer of movement training for actorsTrish Arnold, who has died aged 98, was a pioneer of movement training for actors. In 1955, she accepted an offer to teach movement at the London drama…
Shocked by the Brexit vote, the director of the National Theatre embarked on an ambitious countrywide listening project. Rufus Norris explains how everyone from shepherds to shop workers sha…
The National Theatre's My Country delivers a verbatim verdict on Brexit and Duncan Macmillan adapts Auster's City of Glass in ManchesterLittle Bulb's all-singing Wail, which is about whales …
Tarell Alvin McCraney's plays have seen him feted here and in America. And now he's turning his writer's eye on London lifeIn a room on the top floor of a rehearsal studio in south London, w…
Playhouse, QPACLead singers of Grinspoon and the Living End share a role in the 90-minute thrill ride through protest-punk and rock'n'roll despairWhen young dirtbag punk trio Green Day signe…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonPatsy Ferran shines in Stephen Karam's shapeshifting off-Broadway hit about teenage dilemmas and predatory adults set around a school rhetoric contestFirst seen off-…
Theatre Royal, Brighton Walsh wears his comic curmudgeonliness well as he rebels against sober maturity, clean eating, Tinder, vapes and smartphonesProfessional curmudgeon is a familiar stan…
Young Vic, LondonIt's all mire, ire and menace in Joe Hill-Gibbins's heavy-going productionMud sticks. The most immediately striking feature of Joe Hill-Gibbins's staging of A Midsummer Nigh…
Tobacco Factory, BristolPowerful performances from fine young actors bring fresh power to this sensual, subtle reinventionRichard Twyman is not resident at the Tobacco Factory. Yet his marve…
In this essay, one of two runners-up in the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize, Masters conveys the absurdity of this modernist piece of Russian theatre' The winning review: Susan Sheahan on Evg…
Barbican, LondonSensuality, isolation and identity are explored in three stellar works by this joyous Cuban troupeThere can be few dance companies in the world as handsome and accomplished a…
Everyman, LiverpoolThe classic musical about village custom and community is the perfect choice to launch artistic director Gemma Bodinetz's new repertory ensembleThe bare stage looks simple…
Olivier, LondonTamsin Greig is a magnetic Malvolia in an extravagant production that gleefully refocuses Shakespeare's comedyShe is a 21st-century puritan: her religion is herself; her body …
Supermodel's family revive operetta based on 17th-century story of American Indian slaveThe "true and exact history" of Yarico, a 17th-century female slave, goes to the core of the shame of …
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThis musical adaptation of Idle's take on Edward Lear's much-loved poem is a hummable defence of the spirit nonsenseMy nine-year-old goddaughter, Maya, has a questi…
He made his name as the funniest person on Twitter. But can the Catastrophe writer and star make light of dark times?Catastrophe: noun; an event causing great and usually sudden damage or su…
The British actor on her New York debut in her solo show as Josephine Baker, dealing with racism, and the importance of seizing the momentWhat made you decide to become an actor?I didn't eve…
Barbican, London The company's three works explore hothouse machismo, private headspace and colliding forces in Cuban society with power and urgencyIs Cuba finally about to emerge from decad…
Young Vic, London Simmering hatred, lust and violence are never far away in a disturbing production that delves deep into the collective unconsciousRomantic Victorian versions of Shakespeare…
The fun-loving standup and panel show regular on the things that make him laugh the most, from Partridge to sausageThe Thick Of It. "Wake up and smell the cock," is one of the best lines eve…
Also this week, Ronnie Corbett couldn't make it in comedy now, Billy Connolly smoked the Bible and Marmite man Judd ApatowIn the week we lost Richard Briers, one of the all-time TV comedy gr…
Colston Hall, BristolGervais's new set, Humanity, is pumped with scorn and provocation but the inclusion of more personal material gives a rare glimpse of a gentler man In his new standup sh…
With The Godfather and Chinatown, Robert Evans revolutionised the movie industry. Now, Simon McBurney is staging the mogul's scandalous memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture. They talk about …
Christopher Luscombe's frisky production tackles male domination of the stage, while a new mixed bill at the Barbican features Annabelle Lopez Ochoa1 The Pitchfork DisneyExhilarating, tense …
