Sadler's Wells, LondonDrawing on everything from breakdance to Midle Eastern song, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's new choreography views fusion and collaboration as acts of political resistanceAs a …
From Steve Martin to bowl haircuts, the Irish standup and audience participation master reveals what makes him laugh the mostBilly Connolly. I saw him in Dublin when I was 16 and all I wante…
The editors of the Oxford Complete Shakespeare believe Christopher Marlowe collaborated on the three Henry VII plays … but are they right?By crediting Christopher Marlowe this week as the …
Dancers in this Egyptian Halloween fantasy wrestle with clay and convention at the bequest of the ever-experimental musicianIn the basement of a labyrinthine warehouse, a woman lies on a hos…
Hampstead theatre, LondonDavid Calder plays a communist longshoreman with a death wish and Tamsin Greig is his witty, passionate daughter in Michael Boyd's terrific production"Have you seen …
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Sarah Silverman, Hugh Grant and Zach Galifianakis are fans of this US comic's righteous anger but the man himself is less keen. 'I'm a completely flawed hypocrite,' he tells usIt's not often…
Belvoir St theatre, SydneyIn a series of equally impressive and moving monologues, Brian Friel's play asks the audience whether anyone's memory can ever truly be trustedOn a small intimate s…
Walter Kerr Theater, New YorkThe story " about a father who leaves his wife for a man, and finds himself amid the Aids crisis " dates to the 90s, but its psychological truths remain acuteWhe…
Ageing B-boys reminisce in this wry but tender look at how hip-hop culture turned 1980s East Midlands suburbia into beat streetGalvanic subculture gives new lease of life to humdrum / impove…
Theatre director most admired by playwrights and seen as the master of 20th-century repertoryIn June 2007, the Guardian critic Michael Billington was asked to name the best theatre director …
The artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe is to leave in 2018. She will be sorely missed for her risk-taking and joyful reinventionsFor many long years now, with the creation of the Kneeh…
My friend Judith Cruickshank, who has died aged 78 from a brain tumour, had a great passion for dance and writing on it. Cruickshank was her maiden name, under which she contributed to the T…
New York City CenterHats off to Gyllenhall, who leads a triumphant concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer-winning musical about the very process of art-makingLook, Jake Gyllenhaa…
'At first, when they heard how childish and foul-mouthed Mozart was, the cast got the giggles''I came up with the idea for this play after reading a lot about Mozart. I was struck by the con…
Wild Woods, BradfordThe gloomy basement of an abandoned Marks & Spencer hosts a sci-fi piece that comments on the current immigration crisisFreedom Studios is a Bradford theatre company …
Royal Opera House, LondonIt's hard to know why the Royal Ballet have revived Kenneth MacMillan's flawed study of madness, but Osipova's magnificent performance makes it worthwhile The ballet…
Unicorn theatre, London Holger Schober's clever two-hander presents Medea's children as unwanted arrivals in a new school, in a timely riff on notions of them and usEriopis (Stephanie Levi-J…
Olivier theatre, London Musicians are thrust centre stage to epic effect in Michael Longhurst's revival, and Lucian Msamati is excellent as the composer locked in battle with the divinePeter…
A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer is a new musical collaboration between the National Theatre and Complicite Associates, currently playing at the Dorfman Theatre, with music by Tom Par…
Howard Davies, who has died aged 71, was one of the great post war theatre directors, teasing new messages from old plays and drawing career-defining performances from Alan Rickman, Helen Mi…
Ensemble theatre, SydneyWritten by a former Fairfax journalist, Jane Cafarella, the play mixes laugh-out-loud one-liners with flashes of true grief " but it only skims the surfaceE-baby prot…
Program spanning opera, film, dance, music, performance art and theatre to feature Rufus Wainwright's 'symphonic visual concert' and Neil Armfield's outdoor production of The Secret River Ca…
Billing itself as the only firm that wants its staff to quit to pursue their dreams, RSVP has 600 wannabe performers on its booksOlivia Coleman cleaned houses, George Clooney was an insuranc…
The artistic director of the boundary-pushing New York experimental theater company won a $300,000 prize. Here are the Group's landmark productionsElizabeth LeCompte, the artistic director o…