After its sold-out run in New York, the David Bowie show Lazarus, a sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth, is opening at King's Cross theatre in London. Michael C Hall stars as the alien Thoma…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe storytelling can seem baffling in this tale of an ancient Chinese battle, but the show comes alive through its hallucinatory imagesIt's hard to think of a more visu…
From I'm Alan Partridge to The Bonfire Of The Vanities, the absurdist Dutch comic reveals what makes him laugh the mostRichard Pryor live in concert. He was a fantastic performer and great a…
Rose, KingstonA pair of fine performances reveal the subtleties in Arthur Miller's postwar play, a rollicking good story about family secretsThere are three excellent reasons to see Michael …
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As ex-Labour MP returns to acting, she expresses her dismay as to why women still can't get the best rolesFrom Women in Love to A Touch of Class, Glenda Jackson starred in some of the best f…
Vanessa Marian says her western Sydney street dance classes were a reaction to harrowing videos of war-torn SyriaEach Wednesday evening since September, a crew of 10- to 25-year-old girls an…
Lynn Nottage's moving play about the decline of industry might be set in the 2000s but its unintentionally topical plot makes it a necessary pre-vote watchThere is a specter haunting Lynn No…
Vaudeville theatre, London, 1994I saw Terry Johnson's Dead Funny at the Vaudeville theatre. Zoë Wanamaker played Eleanor, the wife of Richard, the president of the Dead Funny Society, whi…
Vaudeville, LondonKatherine Parkinson is hilarious in Terry Johnson's revival of his 1994 drama about a group of emotionally deficient comedy obsessivesImages of Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper…
Few playwrights take the thriller genre seriously: David Hare is an exception. The National's staging of his Simenon adaptation explores how theatre itself manipulates what we seeThe ancient…
More than 25 years after she gave up acting for politics, Jackson is taking on one of theatre's most challenging roles at the age of 80. Take a look at the Old Vic's gender-blind production …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London Lucy Bailey and the National Theatre of Brent's Patrick Barlow bring the poet's masque to magical life in this delightful stagingDirector Lucy Bailey has a de…
Rodin was enthralled by a new generation of dancers. With its lightning sketches and an expressive bronze of Nijinsky, the Courtauld's exhibition gives us the sculptor as choreographerWhen I…
After we'd all hip-hopped in front ot the patients things changed " boundaries between doctors and nurses were gone and people smiled moreThings are not going well in the NHS right now. It i…
Williams will become the company's youngest artistic director, in a unanimous decision praised by Cate Blanchett as 'wonderful news'Kip Williams has become the youngest artistic director of …
He picked on them and pushed them to the limit - but that, according to his company, is what made Antony Tudor great. Judith Mackrell reportsAnthony Dowell still remembers the day when Anton…
Stadsschouwburg, AmsterdamIvo van Hove's epic reimagining of Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III makes for an explosive examination of political leadership and present-day powerThere is a mome…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonWhat are the hottest tickets in London theatre? Patrick Stewart's Macbeth, Ian McKellen's Lear and what will now be known as Chiwetel Ejiofor's Othello. For director …
Anna Deavere Smith's latest might be flawed, but there's enough energy and anger to make her exploration of racially motivated imprisonment a standoutEducators, activists, politicians, and a…
Walk-through event to be centrepiece of festival that also includes a Vietnamese circus, Russian theatre and the Brodsky Quartet from BritainOne of the world's largest inner-city parks, Pert…
The innovative outfit that cultivated talents such as Tim Key and Claudia O'Doherty is no more. So why, during this boom time for comedy, did it fail?Three weeks ago, it went into voluntary …
Birmingham RepMcDiarmid delivers the paradoxical politician's 'rivers of blood' speech in Chris Hannan's new play which switches between the 1960s and the 90sThe Rep seems the right place fo…
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsWho decides that someone should beco…