Three major productions in just over a year, one to be revived for the second time next week " why is this play about a Norwegian housewife so enduringly popular?When, next Wednesday evening…
MCC Theater, New YorkJudith Light elevates Neil LaBute's mildly sensational material about a transgressive relationship into a reasonably compelling character studyWho would distrust Judith …
Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterIn Katherine Soper's devastating debut play, a young woman balances a zero-hours packing job with caring for her brotherTamsin is 19 but she walks like an ol…
The creator and former star of the Broadway sensation will make his SNL debut on 8 October, alongside musical guest Twenty One PilotsLin-Manuel Miranda " the creator of Broadway sensation Ha…
Palace theatre, ManchesterIn a new version of the classic for English National Ballet, Khan give us a modern-day tale of migrants and his choreography rises to the scale of his set design Re…
David Suchet played George to Diana Rigg's Martha in a 1996 production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He remembers meeting the quiet yet direct playwrightWhen I heard Diana Rigg was goin…
Little Angel theatre, London A companion piece to the puppet theatre's autumn show Emily Rising delivers some escapist fun for the under-sixes Shakera Ahad is one of the busiest puppeteers w…
The artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe has been criticised for her many innovations. She is not ignoring tradition but boldly investigating how the theatre can remain relevant for mode…
I love my job, but theatre is a tough business to break into. My advice is hone your entreprenuerial skills " and make friendsThe world is full of aspiring theatre directors. Some of them ar…
Do the sexual politics of Ibsen's A Doll's House belong to a bygone era? Hardly, says Carrie Cracknell, director of a new film that recasts the play's heroine as an ad exec and mother longin…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonCooper commands the stage as the Restoration rebel John Rochester in Stephen Jeffreys' portrait of debauchery and self-destructionDominic Cooper follows in the…
The heading of your review of the Globe Theatre's Imogen, "Sex, drugs and gang war erupt…" (26 September), could just as well be a strapline for a number of Shakespeare's plays, and while …
During rehearsals of the original production of Tiny Alice on Broadway in 1964, Edward Albee (obituary, 19 September) had daily rows with John Gielgud over a nine-minute soliloquy spoken by …
The award-winning British director is set to take the reins of the stage adaptation of the blockbuster Disney movie, set to land on New York stage in 2018Some changes are coming in the kingd…
Crucible, SheffieldPhillip Breen's adaptation sensitively and sweetly explores Mellors and Constance's love affair but takes the focus away from the social backdropDH Lawrence's working titl…
He had never worked on a classical ballet, and had seen Giselle just once. But the choreographer jumped at the chance to drag the story into the 21st century " with the help of English Natio…
Wicked is celebrating its 10th birthday at the Apollo Victoria theatre in London. The musical, based on Gregory Maguire's novel, presents the untold story of the good and wicked witches from…
Her plays have explored porn, technology and life in her childhood home of Belfast. Stacey Gregg talks about tackling 'gender fraud' with the award-winning Scorch and interweaving tales of I…
New York Theater Workshop, New YorkA new drama imagines the slave rebellion leader's final night in prison before being hanged. The result is a static two-hander in which the leads fail to c…
The Broadway legend won over fans as the emcee in Cabaret and he gained more admirers when he came out at age 82 " now he explains why theater is still sexyAnton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard…
Maddy Hill has swapped Albert Square for the Globe. She talks about bringing feminism to Walford, doing Cymbeline in a tracksuit and why you won't catch her sipping tea in a corsetDoes Maddy…
Royal Exchange theatre to explore experiences of birth around the world in programme of seven new plays highlighting healthcare inequalityIn 2010, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon wrote …
Actor best remembered as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's Do the Right ThingThe actor Bill Nunn, who has died aged 63 of leukaemia, was a gentle giant who appeared frequently as a supporting play…
With Swiss Army Man, Daniel Radcliffe shakes off the last of his tween era with a funny and moving role as a cheese-cutting cadaverYou have to hand it to the stars of the Harry Potter franch…
Western Sydney street acrobatics troupe Dauntless Movement Crew delivers an earnest but underwhelming productionJump first, ask later. That's the motto of the Fairfield-based Dauntless Movem…