After plays about office politics and dockers, Zoe Cooper has delivered an adolescent drama that finds magic in the mundane. She says Jess and Joe Forever is the most honest thing she's writ…
From new Oasis documentary Supersonic to the Turner prize: your at-a-glance guide to the best in culture across the UKSupersonic Continue reading...
The filthy comedy " a hit for the BBC this summer " will be staged at the venue where it first started out as a monologueFleabag, this year's breakout TV anti-heroine, is returning to the th…
The Rover | Attached | Matilda The Musical | Eurohouse | Torn | CCN Ballet De Lorraine | Avant Garde Dance | Birmingham Royal BalletThe RSC has a hit on its hands with a revival of the Resto…
World premiere of the jukebox musical about the American singer starring David Campbell gets the energy right but can't escape the trappings of lazy, outdated storytellingThe bio-jukebox mus…
Roundabout Theater Company, New YorkThe songs are a zippy treat, but the clunky dialogue and air of old-time predictability may leave audiences with reservationsWith Holiday Inn, a wan jukeb…
Director Ivo van Hove's production has a sombre aesthetic beauty while Binoche avoids the easy path of pathosTeam Juliette Binoche with Ivo van Hove, director of A View from the Bridge, in G…
Theatres offer free tickets to shows for refugee children from 'Jungle' camp and the families they are legally entitled to joinTwenty-one UK theatre companies are urging the government to ac…
Kemp Powers' play One Night in Miami revolves around a 1964 encounter between Cassius Clay, Malcolm X and Sam Cooke. At a time of trauma in the US, we must remember not just their defiance b…
Performance poetry might still be a niche concern, but Kate Tempest now gets to do hers on primetime TV " and deservedly so Related: The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate Tempest review "…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAeschylus's tale of escape from forced marriage and the perils of exile is made brilliantly tense in David Greig's thoroughly democratic productionWhen David Greig ann…
Watford Palace theatreTwo soldiers square up over an heiress in Brigid Larmour's production of this 1894 play that hints teasingly at Shaw's mature styleWhy would most producers rather cut t…
Arts theatre, LondonKerry Ellis is caught up in a love triangle in a show with flinty lyrics, plenty of sharp wit and more than a few clichesWhen you fall in love with someone you only have …
Girl from the North Country, a new play by Conor McPherson featuring Dylan songs, is part of Old Vic season that also includes Daniel Radcliffe in Rosencratz and Guildenstern are DeadBob Dyl…
Interaction, spontaneity and the last two minutes of his set are the secrets to the comedian's successReading on mobile? Click here to view Lawrence's Comedy Store video Continue reading...
Blending a floating grace with a fierce athleticism, the Fabulous Nicholas Brothers won fans from Gene Kelly to Michael Jackson. Now a cinematic retrospective celebrates their talentsWhen co…
South Africa's fearless theatre-maker Brett Bailey has made a career out of tackling the most difficult aspects of race. His new show features black people in cages, in reference to real 19t…
Soho theatre, LondonJohn Kearns has enjoyed a startlingly rapid rise to prominence: he won the Foster's best newcomer award last year at the Edinburgh fringe and this year took home the main…
A new video released by the Tonight Show uses both the president and the cast of the blockbusting Broadway musical to get Americans to the pollsThe cast of Hamilton wants American voters to …
After the success of Tape Face and Piff the Magic Dragon, purveyors of overlooked artforms might do well to swap panel-heavy British comedy for the StatesWhen I interviewed Sam Wills " AKA T…
NYT head comes under fire for suggesting that 'the majority of actors' don't need formal training, but should instead focus on marketing skills that enable them to get workFormal three-year …
It's three months until she makes her debut " but there's already a frenzy of speculation. Meet the Brixton girl about to go galacticA few hours after Pearl Mackie was unveiled as Doctor Who…
Two artists who met on the set of Girls used their 'pantsuit power' to organize a live dance and video to help change to the narrative on Clinton as 'the lesser evil'On Sunday, a 200-person …
Soho theatre, LondonThe usually sanguine standup draws laughs and skewers stereotypes with her account of being leftwing in a rightwing age"The David Bowie of standup," comedian Nish Kumar r…
Berkeley Repertory Theater, CaliforniaA Sinclair Lewis novel about the rise of a dictator has been adapted for the stage, seeking to cast new light on the age of Trump " but it's more agitpr…