As an Oscar-winning actor, she could emasculate her leading men. As a Labour MP, she skewered her leader, Tony Blair. After her acclaimed King Lear, is she back to command the theatre world …
Liverpool PlayhouseThis celebration of the 19th-century Star theatre is neither boring nor educational " just as Ken Dodd advised its writer, Michael Wynne Liverpool's theatres seem to be in…
Burton Taylor Studio, OxfordBurnell has adapted her own book for a show for under-sevens featuring songs, audience participation and some charming puppets The Burton Taylor Studio, just behi…
The actor, dancer and entertainer talks about how he had to grow up quickly after his father's death, when he was 13I was born in 1932 and we grew up in Stamford Hill, north London. When the…
Andrew Lloyd Webber says he discovered Rihanna while on holiday but chose not to 'bring her back' to the UK. In an interview on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, Lloyd Webber says he had stum…
Dorfman theatre, LondonAlexander Zeldin's devised piece depicts the endurance and needless suffering of two families living in temporary accommodationIn Beyond Caring, Alexander Zeldin creat…
Impresario says he spotted singer entertaining at Sandy Lane, Barbados, but decided not to 'bring her back' from holiday to join his stage stableKing of musicals Andrew Lloyd Webber has said…
Jane Eyre duetted with Rochester, Akram Khan imagined a refugee Giselle and Jonathon Young battled his demons in a nightmare cabaret. Our critic picks this year's best danceIt was a tribute …
Musical revisits an important and shameful past of the internment of Japanese Americans but story on stage fails to deliver distinctive and rich performances The forced internment of 120,000…
Nathan Maynard's comedy about family dynamics and the ancient practice of muttonbirding is delightfully funnyFather and son are circling one another. "I could put you on your back, smart ars…
Prince of Wales, LondonIf you're lucky enough to somehow have a ticket for this, the most cryingly good night out to have come along for years, and are by any chance looking forward to a smu…
Seinfeld's rant about advertising is an astonishing feat of comedy and raises an important question " whither satire when its targets laugh so hard?Usually when I see a comedian fronting an …
The Harry Potter spinoff looks on course for 2016's top spot after a fourth week at No 1, while Office Christmas Party outdances Bad Santa 2 in the cruel Yule movie stakesFor the fourth week…
Tara theatre, LondonThe cross-cultural company's festive show isn't short on local appeal, but Jatinda Verma's production lacks verve and inventionThere aren't many pantos that include a gue…
Theatre Royal, YorkBerwick Kaler is back for his 38th pantomime, which bursts with traditional surreal humour and features a Suzi Quatro cameoWe all need a bit of light escapism around this …
Abbey theatre, DublinAnnabelle Comyn's staging of this drama of marital suffocation is so cool and controlled that it becomes almost inertIn Mark O'Rowe's new version of Ibsen's 1890 drama, …
Lyttelton, London Ruth Wilson superbly conveys the desolation of Ibsen's ahead-of-her-time aesthete in Ivo van Hove's invigorating modern-dress versionThe extraordinary Ruth Wilson stars in …
Pinter classic proves the second biggest non-musical hit of 2013 in New York, grossing $17.5mDaniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have proved box-office dynamite on Broadway. Betrayal, wh…
Mr Swallow camped it up as Houdini, Isy Suttie looked for Mr Right, while Brexit brought out the angry best in Bridget Christie and Stewart Lee. Our critic picks the year's best comedy' More…
13 December 1958: High expectations fulfilled as the hit Broadway musical opens in the capital's West EndExpectation ran high at Her Majesty's Theatre when West Side Story hit London. Hit it…
New York Theatre WorkshopAn army barracks provides a striking setting for Sam Gold's take on Shakespeare's classic that minimizes questions of race and amps up toxic masculinitySam Gold sets…
Since the 1970s, art forms have touched on the subject of menstruation. Now a new generation of artists, authors and activists are turning taboo into celebrationAbout a year ago, the perform…
Live theatre, NewcastleFirst-time writer Nina Berry's deftly original and intelligent two-hander about Christmas wishes and quantum mechanics displays astonishing confidencePantomime season …
Cambridge Junction New International Encounter's talented ensemble of actor-musicians conjure a sophisticated story with a quirky comic edge'Daddy, poor's not very in at the mo," lisps the g…
Bristol Old VicA goblin experiments on deep-frozen children and a depressed reindeer is roused from apathy in this ingenious take on Hans Christian Andersen's storyThe opening moments of Lee…