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Dario Fo, playwright, Nobel laureate and - at 79 - still the most subversive man in Italy, is running for mayor of Milan. But why? And what will he do if he wins? Well, for a start, he'll so…
Leading Italian actor, playwright and militant leftwing politician who was the wife and professional partner of Dario FoFranca Rame, who has died aged 84, was one of Italy's most admired sta…
Italian was famous for satirical works like The Accidental Death of an AnarachistNobel prize-winning Italian playwright and actor Dario Fo has died, the Italian government has said. Fo, famo…
Kelly and O'Sullivan's collaboration embraces a century of Irish writing, but the seriousness does not quite result in depthWhen it all works, the poetry is the first star of Ancient Rain, a…
Abbey theatre, DublinMusician Jackie returns to his manipulative kin in Ireland, but a terrific cast can't quite make us care about their various resentmentsThe Cherry Orchard meets Dynasty …
He was the 80s enfant terrible who fell into depression and heroin addiction in the 90s. Now 47, the charismatic ballet star is back at the Edinburgh Festival this month for the first time i…
A convention in New York last week afforded a glimpse at a new era of narrative collaboration. Will the concepts of reader and author soon be a thing of the past?Two forces are sending shock…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonBrexit gifts the Little Englander a barrel-load of acidic spoofs, but this act seems content to serve up just the mildFor most of Al Murray's career as The Pub Landl…
Live theatre, Newcastle Tom Wells' play about three chronically uncool school-leavers who form a band treads a perfect line between gauche charm and whimsyFrom the unlikely theatrical hotspo…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe acting is outstanding and the issues are timely in Kwame Kwei-Armah's production of Kemp Powers' passionate playIt may be a flawed play, but it is still a great o…
Reading the memoir Just Kids led choreographer Fleur Darkin to create a dance tribute to the photographer's flower portraits and the punk poet'The colour is so alive and so free, it almost m…
York Theatre RoyalThe children's favourite is brought thrillingly up to date with a string of fairy lights, a handful of glitter and a healthy dose of imagination'I would definitely not want…
These Rooms, which reflects on the Easter Rising, and a rural reimagining of Swan Lake both use new forms to give a different perspective on old stories"My job is to be alert and to look out…
My Country: A Work in Progress will draw on interviews about the referendum compiled across BritainThe National Theatre is to take on Brexit as part of its new season, in a verbatim work com…
Peacock stage, Abbey theatre, DublinCarmel Winters' familiar story of domestic dysfunction plays to the stereotypes of Irish drama and is never as painfully funny or shocking as it should be…
Everyman, LiverpoolNick Bagnall relocates Shakespeare's early comedy to a mind-altering mecca for mods, but the high decibels sometimes overwhelm the poetryNick Bagnall is developing a reput…
The former chancellor has improbably samba'd his way into the public affections. Our panel debates if this will be a quickstep back to the heady days of New Labour Continue reading...
Forsythe's 1987 ballet In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated was commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev and starred the young Sylvie Guillem " and it electrified the ballet world. So what made this work …
Palace theatre, LondonDerren Brown begs us all, journalists included, not to reveal anything he has done in the course of two-and-a-half hours. Seeing him for the first time, however, I feel…
Lyceum Theatre, New YorkThe comic creations of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney hilariously skewer theatrical conventions in an uproarious show that makes Broadway feel like the place to beGil Fa…
The Royal Court hosted a moving celebration of Arnold Wesker. His early works such as Roots are well known " let's rediscover the rest of his 44 playsIf there is an ideal place to stage a ce…
My father, the playwright and novelist Tony Craze, who has died aged 72, won the first Verity Bargate award for new theatre writing in 1983. He went on to play an important role in British t…
Lasting an entire day and night with no breaks, Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music contains multitudes, a 'radical faery realness ritual' which reimagines an America created by …
Dance Umbrella and CCN-Ballet de Lorraine's Unknown Pleasures presents five new works anonymously. So, what's it like to watch a production with no preconceptions?What kind of value judgment…
Barbican, LondonThe punk perfectionist's homage to Satie, Patti Smith and Bowie packs in a range of moods from enigmatic mournfulness to stomping, dadaist revolutionMichael Clark has never q…
