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Sandi Toksvig debuts a new comedy, Crew for Calais take over the Vault festival for a good cause and Bristol's Tobacco Factory hosts a double bill from Manipulate about a doomed romance and …
Vanessa Redgrave has captivated theatre audiences since her early days at the RSC. She has starred alongside her father, siblings and children, enthralled Broadway and is still commanding th…
Lippy, brash and unshaven, the Ballet Boyz were a dance phenomenon. Now, as they enter their 40s, they're launching their boldest venture yetMichael Nunn has just made an unsettling discover…
Actor celebrated for her intellectual performances who achieved early success in Hiroshima Mon AmourFor her brave, unsentimental performance as an elderly woman agonisingly declining physica…
Artem has been producing special effects for film, theatre and TV for nearly 30 years, teaming designers from a range of disciplines as diverse as architecture, interior design, sculpture, g…
Barbican theatre, LondonWith eight Royal Ballet dancers enacting the claustrophobic world of an incestuous couple, De Frutos weaves intricate physical poetry around Jean Cocteau's text and P…
Camden People's Theatre, LondonStarting naked, and narrated by a female voice, two men physically dominate and surrender to each other " raising questions of coercion between the sexesThe tw…
Hurt, who has died aged 77, was a superb, if too infrequent, stage actor. In plays by Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard, he had an intuitive understanding of outsidersI last saw John Hurt six mon…
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonOnly the row over an all-white cast, in a tale set in ancient China, quickens the pulse of this arduous playThe Print Room has been in the middle of a "yello…
Dorfman, LondonCarly Wijs's 2016 Edinburgh fringe hit tells the story of the 2004 Russian school siege with clear-eyed audacityUs/Them: hostages and captors; Russians and Chechens; children …
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThe ethical dilemmas of international surrogacy are examined in an impressive production that refuses to offer easy answersAbove the stage, on three different level…
The Pit, Barbican, LondonDewey Dell's weird, manga comics-inspired show is an intriguing curio that overstays its welcomeDewey Dell are an Italian experimental performance group that, since …
Gate, LondonA young woman's conversion to Catholicism in 19th-century Rhodesia speaks volumes in Danai Gurira's bold tale of oppression and identityThe Convert is enough to give historical d…
For decades, Shakespeare's Richard II was regarded as a piece of conservative camp. But on the eve of a major new production, its tale of heads of state falling from power seems startlingly …
St Ann's Warehouse, BrooklynBenedict Andrews' poignant new staging of Tennessee Williams's play, imported from London, feels utterly contemporaryTennessee Williams' play has travelled a rath…
Playwright speaks out in new book against 'distortion' of plays and move away from traditionOne of Britain's foremost playwrights has launched a forthright attack on European concept directo…
The outspoken actress wants to break open a conspiracy of silence about ageingMiriam Margolyes often thinks about how she is going to die. "I know that at 75, death can't be far away. I thin…
A prominent figure in business, arts and media for decades, he was also chairman of London Weekend Television, BT and the Royal Shakespeare CompanySir Christopher Bland, the former chair of …
The playwright, 64, on guilty memories, cheating at maths and what he chose to ask Tony BlairBoarding school left me with a profound distrust of rules and authority. I remember the headmaste…
Richard E Grant says British actor, who appeared in the Harry Potter films, Alien and Doctor Who, was an 'extraordinary talent' Friends, colleagues and fans of actor John Hurt have paid trib…
Richard Wilson is the latest star of Samuel Beckett's one-man, one-act tragicomedy at the Crucible theatre. From Harold Pinter to John Hurt, we take a look at five other notable KrappsKrapp…
The American Sniper star rules the reviews with his West End theatre debut in the role of Joseph MerrickBradley Cooper has followed in the footsteps of John Hurt, David Bowie and Mark Hamill…
For John Hurt, acting is not about deception. It's about conveying something gobsmackingly truthfulI don't have little rituals that I have to carry out every time I start a new part. Acting,…
Krapp's Last Tape is a kind of essay in aloneness so playing it 10 times a week was an intense experienceYears before I did Krapp's Last Tape I'd seen Patrick Magee and Jack MacGowran do it …
The Barbican in London is staging a new production of Philip Glass's dance-opera, based on Jean Cocteau's sensational novel Les Enfants Terribles. Step inside the surreal world of two siblin…
