The performer is embarking on an ambitious project " a 246-song marathon performance that seeks to sum up a new, queer vision of AmericaA couple of weeks ago, Taylor Mac spent the evening re…
The RSC has teamed up with the Southbank Sinfonia to revive some of the most compelling scores written for our favourite Shakespeare playsWhat's your favourite ballet music? For me, it is St…
Cambridge JunctionPickling The Three Musketeers in their loopy imaginations, the storytelling double-act delight with a series of ad-libbed sketches "Remove your shoes," Mark Chavez deadpans…
The comedian, actor and News Quiz host is joining us to answer your questions from 1pm on Wednesday 21 September " post them in the comments below 4.38pm BST With his sensible jumpers and wa…
Citizens theatre, GlasgowHarry Gibson's adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel about urban alienation speaks as loudly, scabrously and irreverently as everThey used to call it "the Aids capital …
Lyric theatre, BelfastLisa Dwyer Hogg's crop-haired Joan is an unshakeable believer raging within a corporate world in this updated version of George Bernard Shaw's playGeorge Bernard Shaw h…
He rules kids' TV with Gigglebiz, Something Special and Justin's House " and now his jazzy clown creation Mr Tumble is about to storm the stage in Manchester. But Justin Fletcher still can't…
Kathryn Hunter stars in The Emperor at the Young Vic, Tony's Last Tape goes to Liverpool and Maxine Peake plays Blanche Dubois in ManchesterIt's your last chance to try to snaffle a ticket f…
Theatre Royal, BathClare Higgins and Tim Pigott-Smith trade blows with relish, but Adrian Noble's revival brings little fresh insight to Albee's classicWhen Peter Hall ran the Bath summer se…
Lyric HammersmithThis strongly cast British/Australian collaboration is a pleasure to watch but glibly assumes the strains of domestic life are the same the world overThe fraught family has …
Sheffield CrucibleThe effect of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor slicing one another with lines as sharp as flensing knives in the 1966 film version of Edward Albee's 1962 play is still e…
Bristol Old VicDirector Dominic Hill boldly places a brattish, spoilt teenager at the heart of his engaging revival of Sheridan's comedy of mannersEveryone is putting on a performance in Dom…
Playwright whose masterpiece of marital disharmony, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, delved beneath the surface of middle-class lifeEdward Albee, who has died aged 88, has been described as …
The film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, led Edward Albee's play to be remembered as a boozy marital slugfest. But it is as much about America itselfEdward Albee occasionally …
The stage and screen actor on the secret life of Eugene O'Neill, the singer Mayer Hawthorne, All About Eve and his favourite Los Angeles eaterieBorn in London to a Spanish father and Italian…
The comic and actor on joining the cast of The Fall, Billy Connolly's genius and the importance of chemistry on panel showsAisling Bea, 32, is an actor, comedian and writer from County Kilda…
Hampstead theatre, LondonBeth Steel's play aims to underline the cyclical nature of crash and austerity, but compares poorly to similarly themed worksWe have been here before it seems. Swagg…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughA playful cast brighten Alan Ayckbourn's 1987 dystopian comedy, which stresses the value of other people to our livesAs playwright and director, Alan Ayckb…
Rich Mix, LondonClassical Indian dance meets Bollywood drag in a night of tradition and subversionAkademi was founded in 1979 to promote the understanding of South Asian dance in Britain, an…
Young Vic Studio, LondonColin Teevan's adaptation of an account of Haile Selassie's reign by Polish journalist Ryszard KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski maintains a devastatingly light touch The Young Vic…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterMaxine Peake's creative partnership with the Royal Exchange hits another high in Tennessee Williams's classicMaxine Peake and the Manchester Royal Exchange. There i…
Understudies power West End shows and many use social media to say when they're taking over a lead role. But those in Cameron Mackintosh Ltd's productions must wait for permission firstEvery…
As he reaches the end of his UK standup tour, the comic speaks about being a frustrated musician, what his family thinks of his shows and why he's returning to the Perrier-winning role of th…
Performance poet Hollie Poetry on why always wanting to throw up before a gig is a small price to pay for spreading the wordLong before she quit her day job and adopted the stage name Hollie…
In interviews, the great American playwright Edward Albee could be as quotable as his characters. Here are 10 of his best observations I failed as a poet, a novelist, a short-story writer an…