Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe gender switches in Sarah Frankcom's Hamlet may unsettle for a moment but they do not distort the play' At her Peake: a stage career in pictures' Michael Billing…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeChristian Edwards makes an absorbing hero in this swaggering adaptation of Rostand's tale, featuring some brilliant baroque musicNorthern Broadsides has built it…
With performing arts workers twice as likely to attempt suicide than those in other industries, 90 arts organisations have joined forces in Victoria for an industry-first initiative to suppo…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonA black dancer meets police prejudice and industry stereotyping as she bids to make it on Broadway in a lively, inventive storyIt has taken 17 years for t…
A white coat is often a sign of funny bones, as periodic outbreaks of medically trained comedians demonstrateIs there an affinity between comedy and medicine? Certainly, a notable number of …
Green is to play Woolf and Arterton is cast as Vita Sackville-West in Vita & Virginia, a film about the writers' years-long relationshipEva Green and Gemma Arterton have been cast in the…
Unicorn, LondonPurni Morell directs a lush production of Ignace Cornelissen's drama about a prince who is under pressure to remarry after his bride goes missingWhat happens after "happily ev…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterGraeae use British Sign Language to bring new depths to Federico GarcÃa Lorca's play, with Kathryn Hunter on vicious formIf ever the time was right for a reappra…
Soho theatre, London The comic alter egos of Dan Renton Skinner and Alex Lowe claim to be the New Power Generation come to save us in a thin but skilfully written showIt's a match made in " …
Tickets for the Troubles-set play, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Paddy Considine, sold out within a day at the Royal Court. Now a West End run has been announcedA keenly awaited new pl…
A gang of emerging outfits " including Silent Uproar and Middle Child " hit the road to reveal the Yorkshire city's buoyant theatre sceneThe big question facing any festival is what will its…
Stage and screen actor known for his role as the assiduous sleuth in the Hitchcock film FrenzyAlec McCowen, who has died aged 91, was an actor of dazzling technical brilliance whose career e…
A new play by Taggart writer Glenn Chandler charts the forgotten story of two cross-dressers and a notorious 1870s court caseIn prudish Victorian England they were called the "he-she ladies"…
Burnley is a forgotten battleground for lesbian and gay rights, says playwright-in-residence for LGBT History MonthBurnley is a market town known for many things including, perhaps, its rich…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonAlex MacKeith's debut play deals with the nuts and bolts of a test-driven education system and acts as a metaphor for other hard-pressed professionsPlays about sch…
Finborough, LondonTitas Halder's strange one-man play, starring Ben Aldridge, looks to the urban fox to illustrate a life in free-fallA fascination with foxes runs through our literature, fr…
Cult US theatre group 600 Highwaymen are putting on their first UK show with a gang of strangers who have rehearsed individually and never met each otherWhen they take the stage this week, t…
In northern Iraq, they're laughing at Saddam Hussein. Luke Harding meets two comedians who have dared to cock a snook at the ruthless dictator - and annoyed him so much that he ordered their…
The US prodigy, celebrated for his speed, grace and spectacularly witty performances, is among the winners at the National Dance awardsClassical ballet is notoriously an art form that impose…
Defending the all-white cast in Half a Sixpence, Fellowes suggests diversity is trickier for period pieces than modern drama. Surely there's no difference?"You can't make something untruthfu…
Ovalhouse, LondonAudience participation turns from fun to fraught in this assault on the corporate world inspired by the American author's short storyTerry works for a marketing company whos…
Junk playgrounds had sheer drops, death-defying rope swings and were always being set on fire. The playwright explains why he has written a show about these chaotic spaces and the kids who b…
Black Beauty gallops into Glasgow, Cardiff hosts a retelling of the last woman hanged in Britain, and a show created sex workers premieres in the capitalFirst seen at the Traverse in Edinbur…
Royal Opera House, LondonThere's no doubting the love that many British ballet fans feel for the Bolshoi, nor their sympathy for the company's recent trials. But in spite of such loyal enthu…
Princess theatre, MelbourneSouth Park creators' coming-of-age satire on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a work of comic geniusCries of "Jesus!" could be heard in the crowd…