Wilton's Music Hall, LondonThe veteran comic is the chief delight of a warm-hearted production mixing morality, melodrama and magicIt's been a vintage year for 80-year-olds in the British th…
Young Vic, LondonThe actor Mark Lockyer's gripping story of his bipolar disorder plays on his status as an unreliable narratorIn 1995, while playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet for the RSC …
The year began downbeat and ended oddly, with Dear Evan Hansen and Heisenberg among the highlights as Cirque du Soleil fell flat with ParamourWhen history books come to discuss the Broadway …
Theatre names 14 actors, including Richard Bremmer and Melanie La Barrie, in first in-house company since 1990s The Liverpool Everyman theatre has named the actors who will perform in its fi…
The poet and rapper is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat on Wednesday 14 December " post them in the comments below 8.43am GMT Kate Tempest moves in the grey areas betwe…
David Walliams's The First Hippo on the Moon goes on tour, an RSC double-header opens at Theatre Royal Haymarket and there are festive shows aplentySh!t Theatre's Sing-a-long-a Muppet Christ…
Black and minority ethnic people make up 17% of English arts workforce and disabled people account for 4%, report findsThe proportion of black and minority ethnic people working in England's…
Former EastEnders actor Arinze Kene is fast becoming one of Britain's most exciting young playwrights. He tells Maddy Costa why he has turned his gaze on the riots that rocked the 1980sWhen …
Traverse, EdinburghThe beguiling playfulness of this rollicking adaptation cleverly amplifies the high drama of Anna Sewell's equestrian adventureThey should have called it Horse Play. This …
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation of CS Lewis's collection of sardonic letters from a senior to a junior devil is excessively and noisily theatricalThe big question is whether CS Lewis's 1…
New Diorama, London"Our aim," says Mark Leipacher, director of the young Faction company, "is to create big, bold, bombastic theatre with limited resources." I'm not sure about bombastic; on…
The Ritz, ManchesterKate Tempest felt the love as she rhymed and rapped her way through her new album, Let Them Eat ChaosTonight's gig begins a cappella, in space. We are standing in Manches…
Young Vic, London… but the star turns are elsewhere in this thin adaptation of the 1930 satire on the Hollywood talkiesOnce in a Lifetime? That's about right. Twice is pushing it. Moss Har…
Olivier, LondonSally Cookson tumbles expectations in a fine production that's true to JM Barrie's sadly twisting storyIt was one of the most extraordinary revelations that has ever burst on …
Soho theatre, LondonPhoebe Waller-Bridge follows up her TV hit with a magnificent monologueIt's not so unusual for a successful Edinburgh show to become a television series, but it is rare t…
Coliseum, LondonBoris Eifman's reworking of F Scott Fitzgerald is beautifully danced but stunningly insensitiveBoris Eifman is one of Russia's most prolific choreographers. In 1977, aged 30,…
Gender roles are all at sea and a fox learns a lesson in our pick of Christmas shows in Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Southampton and EdinburghChristmas shows are a fabulous …
The comedian and classic pantomime dame on the secrets of stage goo and the joy of condensed milkI don't remember eating with Mum or Dad. Dad wasn't around in Croydon, then Mum died while I …
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonMatthew White's exquisite, light-on-its-feet revival of the 1963 musical delights one audience member in particular…The lyricist Sheldon Harnick, 92, was at…
21 February 1946 " 14 January 2016 The former artistic director of the Royal Court recalls the great actor who 'lived his socialism by repeatedly giving to others'' Gene Wilder remembered by…
As the Guardian prepares to stream a classic performance of Tchaikovsky's glittering masterpiece, we explore what makes this the world's favourite ballet " and pick out a few favourite produ…
Critically panned but hugely popular jukebox musical to close doors after 4,600 performances at Dominion theatreTwelve years after it opened, the Queen and Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You…
While it is witty and tinsel-sparkly, the new show from the makers of La Soirée and La Clique lacks the sizzle of its predecessorsPerhaps I've been spoilt. Club Swizzle, the latest circus"c…
Critics are getting laid off. It's getting tougher to find ways to be paid to write. It sounds as if theatre criticism is on life support. Or is it?Is theatre criticism in meltdown, as some …
She made a huge hit of Stephen Sondheim's most-famous flop " not bad for a girl who dropped out of school when she was 15 and was rejected as a theme-pub singer. Maria Friedman talks to…