In his new book, Matthew Wright analyses the remaining evidence of hundreds of Athenian texts that, packed with sex, magic and happy endings, would give a radically different impression of t…
Arcola, London This intelligent and gripping double bill probes the ethics, power and policy behind 'kill lists' and the technology that has changed modern warfareAt a 2011 Washington dinner…
Rachel Mars, Matt Regan and Nwando Ebizie are among a new wave of artists moving freely between two worlds to create shows that are not quite gig and not quite drama but somewhere in between…
Bill T Jones excelled as a high school athlete before discovering dance and meeting his future partner at college. His choreography has been a controversial vehicle for his views on sexual a…
Kneehigh is one of Britain's most exciting theatre companies. How do they do it? Maddy Costa finds out at their secret hideaway in CornwallAt the top of a cliff on the south coast of Cornwal…
When performers take over a five-star hotel, how much is authentic and how much is PR? And does it matter?Sprawled on the immaculate, crisp white sheets of room 1107 is a man. He lies spread…
Stables, Milton Keynes Fresh from a stint on America's Got Talent, Sam Wills delivers a captivating set of skits that bring the audience on stage and celebrate the improbableAmerica's Got T…
Developed at London's dynamic Yard theatre, Removal Men is a musical tragicomedy that gives an eye-opening portrait of detention officers' work. Its creators, MJ Harding and Jay Miller, expl…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonMatt Grinter's play vividly captures the pressure to conform as a girl in an isolated fishing community tries to prevent a devastating mythical ritual The Papatang…
It has baffled and divided critics with its tale of a gin-soaked alien marooned on this planet. So what would three David Bowie fans make of Lazarus, his sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth?…
King's Cross theatre, LondonDavid Bowie and Enda Walsh's sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth is staged with visual sophistication by Ivo van Hove but it's rarely emotionally engagingHelp fun…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonTwo short plays by the Swedish dramatist show that his female characters can be just as varied and vivid as the menThe title sounds like a provocation, given Str…
Charles Hamblett tours the northern variety clubs, which are big show business these daysThe euphoric textile manufacturer, flushed on scampi and Spanish plonk, leaned across from his table …
Stalwart film and television actor with a talent for playing snarling villainsJohn Carson, who has died aged 89, was a busy actor whose velvet voice and distinguished looks could flit easily…
There was no lack of jokes about the Republican nominee from Samantha Bee to Alec Baldwin " but despite comics' best efforts, Trump put himself past satireThis election season has inspired a…
Soho theatre, LondonWilliam Leith's book has been turned into an uninspiring monologue delivered by a softly spoken Adrian EdmondsonPhoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, which captured the anxieti…
Nottingham PlayhouseIn an inspired updating, Fiona Buffini relocates Thomas Middleton's play about the abuse of power to a 1970s celebrity world of tight trousers and chest-wigsThomas Middle…
The Royal Ballet's resident choreographer is celebrating 10 years at Covent Garden. McGregor's new piece, Multiverse, set to a score by Steve Reich, is part of a triple bill of one-act balle…
Park theatre, LondonJonathan Maitland's new work about an ambitious runner and her coach shows that there is no such thing as a level playing field in sportJonathan Maitland, as a journalist…
Bryony Kimmings's hugely moving show at the National Theatre reduces us to tears and skilfully stage-manages us into participating in its finaleOne of the many pleasures of A Pacifist's Guid…
Instructions for an authentic, if risk-filled, Shakespearean experience, inspired by Michael Morpurgo's praise for the inspired and original risk-taker Emma Rice at Shakespeare's Globe Cont…
Worried about increasing international tensions? Feeling a little pre-apocalyptic? For effective relief, try some hypnotic instrumental jazz-funk-disco Hometown: Melbourne.The lineup: Mike K…
School of Rock, the Broadway hit based on the smash film, is blasting into Britain. Tim Dowling grabs his Fender and challenges its cast to a battle of the axes " but finds himself hopelessl…
Simon Russell Beale braves a technological Tempest, while Milton's masque Comus is performed by candlelight, Compass festival takes us by the hand in Leeds, and Frankenstein goes to the seas…
Nottingham PlayhouseBack from comedic and political hibernation, swaggering as always but a little less potent in new show ExposedIt feels like another age, that still-recent time when Russe…