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Exclusive: Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, coming to West End, imagines rival dramatists working together
A Guardian report on William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe being literary …
Soho theatre, LondonIt's not as big-hitting as her debut but this sophomore comedy show proves Gray is a brilliant entertainer and wind-up merchant
To say that Jordan Gray made an eye-catch…
Underbelly Boulevard, LondonDylan MarcAurele's musical comedy couldn't be trashier but there's fun to be had mixing twerking with 1400s Tuscany
The Pope vapes, Michelangelo uses Zoom, and Le…
He created the iconic Phantom of the Opera mask, made Daniel Radcliffe go topless and even had his Führer design banned on the tube. Theatreland's go-to graphic artist Bob King talks us thr…
The idiosyncratic comic's sprawling CV includes poetry, Alan Partridge and a spell in a pigeon costume but his latest career destination might be his most unlikely yet " Hollywood
No, Tim Ke…
In 1985, John Fox and his Welfare State International theatre company were in residence at Friends World College, Huntington, Long Island, New York, where a radical experiment in higher educ…
Park theatre, LondonOlive was happy to probe strangers about their mortality " but struggles to face her own
'It's weird we don't talk about it," declares journalist Olive, the alter-ego of …
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, LondonThe cast of six women and one man give extraordinary physical performances " but most devastating is the stillness that reflects their paralysis…
Bristol Old VicFlora Wilson Brown's play spans 250 years of climate science " from 1850s New York to 2100 Svalbard " to examine what it means to bring a child into our ecologically inhospita…
The Enola Holmes actor shares a poem in memory of her mother. The film is part of a series to mark Celebration Day 2025 " a new annual moment, held on the last bank holiday Monday of May, to…
The playwright was about to quit theatre but hearing Babe I'm Gonna Leave You led to a sensational, Tony-winning collaboration with Arcade Fire's Will Butler
In 2013, I was desperately looki…
Lilian Baylis studio, Sadler's Wells, LondonThe choreographer's unapologetic depiction of female instincts fills a suburban living room with surreal scenes of suppressed sexuality and rage
A…
The Australian Ballet presents Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Manon, a tragic tale of desire and temptation. Based on Abbé Prévost's 1731 novel, Manon takes audiences on a wild ride from the opul…
Garrick theatre, London Filial tangles, played with the actor's real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw's once-banned drama to life
This is not the first production of Ge…
While the splashy, star-packed season might not have lived up to the hype, there were still enough hilarious moments
This was a massive season for Saturday Night Live, which celebrated 50 ye…
The Melbourne comedian shares a Seinfeldian musing, a tight takedown of American culture, and transports us to 2006 Lygon Street
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The singular comedian gave 40 hours of interviews to film-maker Matt Wolf for an intimate and often challenging two-part portrait
For any documentary that hinges on access in order to be pro…
Show re-enacting ancient and unashamedly sexual rituals is most ambitious to date, says artist
Marina Abramović is an art world superstar well known for challenging visitors' awkwardness…
The actor reads a poem in memory of his father: "I like to think of the younger, happier man." The film is part of a series to mark Celebration Day 2025 " a new annual moment, held on the la…
Actor, playwright and screenwriter who was a stalwart of the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier
The actor and writer Gawn Grainger, who has died aged 87, had an extraordinary career tha…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller's classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song
There is never a time when Arthur M…
Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories' version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state
The Cannes film festival isn'…
Campaigners say knowledge taught at Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts vital to preserve traditional skills, especially luthiery
The making of stringed instruments will become a crit…
It may be set 60 years ago, but a new ballet version of The Who's rock opera asks questions about youth, society and masculinity that still resonate " and it brought its original creator to …
Attendances are up and average ticket prices down, even in the West End, but the sector faces mounting and unsustainable strain
A report by the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, rele…