Ira Aldridge was the first non-white actor to portray Othello in England. Now his legacy will play a key role in the city's bid to be the capital of cultureWhen Ira Aldridge stepped on stage…
Sadler's Wells, LondonChoreographer Iván Pérez's attempt to conjure up the horrors of trench warfare is overlong and over-beautifiedThe suffering of the young men who fought in the first…
Paul O'Grady, Julian Clary and Berwick Kaler lead a troup of redoubtable dames this panto seasonThe good news is that panto is back at the Palladium after almost 30 years without t…
Christmas theatre needn't mean panto " check out human cannonballs and escapologists, biting comedy and Luhrmann adaptationsLast year, they gave us the spooky The Haunting of Hill House…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonClaire van Kampen mixes story and song superbly in a tale about the celebrated castratoPlays about mad kings are always popular. After Alan Bennett's portrait …
How do you depict war using the language of dance? BalletBoyz's new feature-length film, Young Men, has the answerIt turns out there is no category for war films told solely through the lang…
The wordsmith, musician and standup extraordinaire on what makes him laugh the most Related: Stewart Lee on standup comedy and music " the Guardian Radio Hour podcast Continue reading...
Battersea Arts Centre is reprising its London Stories project and inviting audiences to meet a stranger and hear about why they journeyed to the capitalWalk into the council chamber at Batte…
His Twelfth Night was a critical smash " but how did he feel waiting in the wings? Rylance reveals all, while photographer Mary McCartney gets a backstage passMy earliest memory of a backsta…
Chichester festival theatreEverything slots perfectly into place in this glorious evocation of American vaudeville's tackinessIf proof were needed of the power of the traditional Broadway mu…
Winter Garden theatre, New YorkWith a book by Julian Fellowes, this adaption of the hit film misses the charisma that Jack Black brought as Dewey FinnPay no attention to the title. School of…
Mobo award-winning rapper Akala is running a series of workshops for teenagers on the links between Shakespeare and hip-hopIn a community hall in Hoxton, London, a small piece of alchemy is …
Shakespeare's older heroines are few and often limited in scope. So what does an ageing actress do? Our all-female Henry IV and Julius Caesar have helped us see the plays afreshShakespeare i…
Royal Opera House, LondonMultiverse, McGregor's newest work for the Royal Ballet, is set to Steve Reich's most apocalyptic score but ends on a note of lyrical, limpid beautyBack in 2006, the…
For his new Roundhouse show, Putting Words in Your Mouth, the artist interviewed 400 LGBT people around the UK. Their views are staged in a 'lip-sync marathon' designed to catch audiences of…
The searing Scottish comedian is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat on Monday 14 November " post them in the comments below 12.41pm GMT With a voice that could wither conc…
The comedian discusses his marriages, his parents' estrangement from each other and his pride in enabling them to buy their council houseI grew up in a nice little working-class council hous…
Chappelle arrives back on the scene amid a new wave of black comedians, some of whom fit the Def Comedy Jam mold while others take after his offbeat humorIt's hard to believe that Dave Chapp…
Cursing and raging, Lear is taken into care while he plots revenge on his daughters in a modern take on Act II, Scene 4 from Shakespeare's tragedy. This is the ninth film in the British Coun…
The tiny island where Alexander Hamilton was born is receiving a welcome boost " and businesses are cashing in on their most famous sonThe tiny Caribbean island of Nevis is receiving a boost…
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical | Love, Lies And Taxidermy | My Mother Medea | Blue Heart | The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures | …
Rosemary Branch, LondonIn her complex and intelligent one-woman show, Silva deconstructs EL James's erotic bestseller to celebrate the slipperiness of wordsThe stage is piled with copies of …
The Canadian standup's Radio 4 show expertly splices comedy, opinion and enlightenment to explore millennial gender fluidity and sexWoman's Hour host Jenni Murray raised hackles the other we…
The story of Russia's flagship dance company, from the patronage of the tsars to surveillance by the KGB, mirrors the country's tempestuous recent historyThis massive survey of the 240-year …
The newly excavated Curtain theatre in Shoreditch is believed to be where Henry V and Romeo and Juliet were first performedThe battle scenes of Shakespeare's Henry V and the dances and sword…