Orange Tree, Richmond Like 1980s precursors to Fleabag, young female flatmates confide their fantasies in a world where men seem to hold all the powerMore than a third of teenage girls suffe…
The Other Palace, LondonThis musical adaptation, based on Joseph Moncure March's racy 1928 poem, is so frenzied it leaves you exhausted Andrew Lloyd Webber acquired what used to be the St Ja…
The singer-songwriter talks about his wistful, thought-provoking Songs From Northam Avenue, inspired by one of 'the most interesting parts of Australia'"I'm kind of ashamed to admit that," s…
Corden's US TV debut is a success, but the mutual back-slappery of such chatshows is almost unwatchable " all the more so when the hosts are comediansDid you ever watch Simon Amstell on Neve…
The Stables, Milton Keynes The standup reveals she's taken up boxing on her Calman Before the Storm tour, and the show swipes energetically at a formidable array of targets"No one says, 'Hic…
Theatre duo RashDash want to talk about masculinity but words keep failing them so they're doing it with the help of a sequinned rock goddessWe are a feminist, female theatre company and we …
Dolphins are taught to speak in a clever satire, Theatre 503 presents works by prisoners and Madame Bovary is relocated to a plumbing company " in a play with no actorsSinners Club, at the O…
Kenneth Weeks, 86, and Lyne Luxford, 70, were captured hoofing it off Collins Street in Melbourne, at 2am on a Sunday morning as the city celebrated White Night. Melbourne's fifth White Nigh…
The great American radical showed how ordinary people mattered more than stars " a lesson today's celebrities could do with learningThese are strange times for popular music and politics. On…
Sold-out show wins best new play, best director and three acting prizes, while Billie Piper wins best actress for YermaHarry Potter and the Cursed Child, one of the biggest stage events of r…
The life of Daniel Miller perfectly illustrates the change in attitudes to people with Down's syndrome over the past 40 years on both sides of the Atlantic.In the 1960s people with Down's sy…
Diana Rigg starred in Hammer's original Theatre of Blood movie in the Seventies. Now her daughter, Rachael Stirling, is reprising the role on stage at the LytteltonHigh on cheese and high on…
Arcola, LondonOladipo Agboluaje hits close to home as he shows the darkly comic side of the fight for revolutionary changeDriving home after the play, I caught an item on Radio 4's The World…
The Berlin-based actor and star of SS-GB on staying in touch with England through BBC Radio 4, his love for Yorkshire and David Hockney and his weekend retreat on the BalticAfter starting ou…
Barbican, LondonLars Eidinger is a visceral, manipulative monarch in Thomas Ostermeier's explosive German-language productionThomas Ostermeier has been director of Schaubühne Berlin since 1…
Barbican, London Simon McBurney's fizzing take on the novel that inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel transcends language barriers… and can still be seen onlineBefore I was a theatre critic I…
The American director on real-life cases of mass psychogenic illness that inspired her debut feature, The FitsThe Fits is the debut feature from American director Anna Rose Holmer. It follow…
As she prepares to play Martha, Elizabeth Taylor's role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the actor talks about how she 'ducked and dived' her way to the topUnlike some actors, who carry w…
Richmond theatre, LondonWorks from the choreographer's early career show all his trademark wit, originality and eye for detailThe three works comprising Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures wer…
Apollo, LondonTom Hollander proves wonderfully potty in Stoppard's 1974 play, given a startling new lease of life in this age of alternative factsEarly Tom Stoppard plays are having a stage …
Crucible, SheffieldThe drama lacks oomph but sheer exuberance carries this coming-of-age tale by Tom MacRae and Dan Gillespie SellsThe school's psychometric test identifies 16-year-old Jamie…
After famously revealing that he saw his father's ghost when playing Hamlet at London's National Theatre in 1989, Day-Lewis has now denied the claimsDaniel Day-Lewis has put paid to one of t…
A of us have our Proust-like moments, when our own version of the Madeleine cake brings us remembrance of things past. For me it was the announcement that this year's Royal Ascot meeting was…
The comedian and author on memories of Iran, doing things her way and buying her mum a walk-on partBorn in Iran, Shappi Khorsandi, 43, was granted asylum in the UK after her family was force…
Lincoln Centre, New YorkThe worn-out rag that is reality TV has tarnished the novelty of seeing celebrities reveal, if not talents exactly, then capabilities in unexpected fields. It is now …