Lyttelton, LondonHare's adaptation of 1968 novel La Main features subtle performances from Mark Strong and Elizabeth Debicki, but the cinematic design upstages the dramaThere is a palpable g…
Amid a strain on services, a charity is investing in the arts to provide 'wrap-around support' for young peopleTen young people from Manchester mental health charity 42nd Street are struggli…
Malthouse theatre, Melbourne festivalJess Thom embraces the unexpected in a show that aims to show the surreal, creative and hilarious side to living with Tourette syndrome"There are a few t…
Twelve years after it opened in London, Punchdrunk's take on Macbeth is still packing them in in New York " with a bar and restaurant attached. Has success tarnished the magic " or does it s…
The Australian band Shining Bird have joined forces with a Bangarra senior dancer, Waangenga Blanco, and his partner, Caroline Sundt-Wels " the creative director at Desert Designs " for an e…
The Humans and IT Crowd actor is about to star in a play about the world of humourless comedy fans. Good job she has experience in that field …It's break time at a rehearsal space in south…
Travelling through brothels, strip clubs and red-light districts around the world, the performer channels the other's experiences into a new show about sex workFor Sell/Buy/Date, her first n…
Drum, PlymouthTold By An Idiot's relentless zaniness obstructs any real exploration of why we delude ourselves in this collection of loosely linked skitsAs the company's name suggests, Told …
In-depth look at the hit Broadway musical has an impressively starry lineup but doesn't give us a truly behind-the-scenes peek at the creative processNow that Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, …
Ursula Martinez offers Free Admission at Warwick Arts Centre, The Exorcist premieres at Birmingham Rep and the world's second oldest play is at the Grand Opera House in BelfastTold by the Wi…
Hit show that began in a room above a pub has had its run at the Duchess Theatre extended until at least September 2015From Mr Saigon to Dave Poppins: West End disasters and how to avoid the…
American Airlines theatre, New YorkJumpy actors and an unusual vocabulary are among many jarring elements in a scattered adaptation that never gets out of the woods"I don't know what to make…
Bunker, LondonThis endearing drama about a woman who has vaginismus " played brilliantly by Lydia Larson " suggests its writer, Isley Lynn, could be rising star London's newest theatre, a fo…
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonDizzying cosmology show provides workout for the brain, with one part entertainment to 13.8bn parts educationProfessor Brian Cox finds a lot of things "beaut…
Young Vic, LondonKatori Hall's play about Martin Luther King and a hotel maid's long night flirting over civil rights issues gains fresh resonance in the context of Black Lives MatterIt's 3 …
Almeida, LondonAnne-Marie Duff time travels from 1800s Cornwall to 70s Libya in Ella Hickson's remarkable new play about empire, energy and parenthoodThe old idea that women dramatists tend …
Everyman, LiverpoolShakespeare's early satire on romance gains little from being transported into the swinging decadeDirector Nick Bagnall and composer James Fortune take Shakespeare's early…
Birmingham HippodromeDavid Bintley's uninvolving new version of The Tempest is symptomatic of an identity crisis in British balletThe Tempest, David Bintley's new work for Birmingham Royal B…
The co-founder of acclaimed architects Haworth Tompkins on what makes the ideal theatre, the problem with overlit foyers " and their unlikely inspiration for the Liverpool EverymanIn 1997 th…
Duke of York's, LondonKen Stott and Reece Shearsmith go to town in a very funny revival of Ronald Harwood's terrific backstage tragicomedyRonald Harwood thinks it is a mistake for a woman to…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonFine performances carry Kemp Powers's dramatisation of a momentous meeting between Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam CookeStanding ovations have recently bec…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonI have never much warmed to Enid Bagnold's play: what others call its high comic style sounds to me arch, precious and exhibitionist. But, if this 1956 Haymarket hit …
For some ballerinas, being laid up with a serious foot injury can end a career. But not Sarah Lamb. Judith Mackrell talks misogyny, politics and heavy-lifting with the Boston-born power…
The playwright discusses referendum gloom, turning down I'm a Celebrity, and why his third volume of diaries may be his last. Read an extract hereHaving been a Spitting Image puppet, voiced …
London's Roundhouse is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Since reopening 10 years ago it's staged a fine lineup of music and performing arts. Here, revisit some of the shows that were staged…