Town Hall theatre, GalwayMartin McDonagh's bitter-humoured play of thwarted dreams is as powerful as ever, performed 20 years on by the company who premiered itIt looks at odds with itself, …
Shakespeare's Globe, London EastEnders's Maddy Hill stars in Matthew Dunster's taut, intelligent reimagining of Cymbeline in an urban gangland settingAnyone who takes on the Globe gets it in…
The Orange is the New Black star, who has won acclaim for her role onstage in The Color Purple, talks about diversity, stereotypes and BroadwayDanielle Brooks is internationally renowned for…
Words: Morwenna Ferrier. Photography: Rick Guest. Styling: Helen Seamons and Melanie WilkinsonKym Sojourna stands in front of the camera, waiting for instruction. Tall and long-legged, she i…
This account of the Tolpuddle martyrs' struggle for higher wages and justice is heartfelt, but should trust its audience rather moreThe Tolpuddle martyrs were a group of 19th-century Dorset …
The French playwright's comedy has been packing audiences in worldwide for 20 years. What is the secret of its success?Twenty years ago Yasmina Reza's Art opened at the Comédie des Champs-E…
Watch theatremaker and actor Tim Crouch perform Commonwealth, a 2012 monologue written by Andy Smith, as part of the Royal Court's summer-long Open Court festival. Crouch enters from the aud…
Torn | A Tale Of Two Cities | O No! | A Streetcar Named Desire | In The HeightsThere's more than a hint of Debbie Tucker Green about this incendiary family story and that's no bad thing. Nat…
From Frank Skinner to Nietzsche-style sketch comedy, the standup and novelist reveals what makes him laugh the most Norm Macdonald. He's so funny-boned. And he gives off an amazing aura of n…
Carlos Acosta | The Tempest | Michael Clark CompanyThe great dancer retires from the ballet stage by performing extracts from works such as Balanchine's Apollo and MacMillan's Requiem. Royal…
He flies, he flips, he falls! Bear Grylls is going on tour " with Endeavour, an acrobatics spectacular celebrating great survivors. But first he gives our writer a crash course on his wall o…
Political plays about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are repeatedly failing to reach American theatres. The US playwright Naomi Wallace is doing something about it " by setting sail for Ga…
Not sure what to see at the theatre next year? Van Badham selects the most promising works, from experimental debuts to revivals of unbeatable classicsThe Australian habit of year-in-advance…
Golden Theatre, New YorkEquipping the audience with headphones offering 3D sound, McBurney embarks on a mind-expanding journey into the Amazon jungle " and storytelling itselfThe director, p…
The king of today's investigative comics, has exposed online child abuse, inspired Judd Apatow and Louis CK " and is still as funny and as angry as everIn the elevator on the way down from t…
A theatre group has teased out the proudly feminist subtext in West's play, which was banned for obscenity but launched the actor into superstardomThis month, Sex returns to the city: an inf…
My teacher and friend Jan Murray, who has died at the age of 74, was an outspoken and powerful arts critic and an influential voice for British and international contemporary dance.Jan was t…
The play that burned down the Globe theatre in 1613, after a stage cannon ignited the thatch, is a potent farewell to this seriesIt seems strange to end this series of favourite Shakespeare …
The American singer and songwriter mocked the absurdities of the human condition by using jolly tunes and foul lyrics Tom Lehrer exploded in my unhappy 15-year-old head like the best firewor…
Ofcom has censured an old episode of TV Burp, eight years after deeming its skit about a transgender man acceptable. It signals a sea change in how trans issues are treated on the small scre…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Charlotte Brontë's intimate novel of doomed love is stripped of bonnets and reset as science fiction by Linda Marshall GriffithsCharlotte Brontë's final…
Northern Stage, NewcastleA pair of belting performances power this energetic tale of two fans' desperate attempts to get into Newcastle UnitedWhen Jonathan Tulloch's novel about the efforts …
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonThere are some striking performances in this musical about an explorer stuck underground, but too many of the lyrics are incomprehensibleA musical about a hero tra…
Duchess, LondonHitler's rise to power is parodied in Brecht's allegorical satire with the Führer as scary as a tea cosy. But the finale is soberingThe American gangster movie meets Richard …
Young Vic, LondonThe director's new work based on the ancient text is one of aesthetic beauty and great skill, if less convincing as a parable of our times Three decades ago, Peter Brook's p…