Orange Tree, RichmondZoe Cooper's skilful and touching account of an unlikely teenage friendship brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye Zoe Cooper's play, co-produced with Farnham Maltings an…
James Acaster has penned a sitcom pilot and Liam Williams has written a play. Both bring echoes of their striking comedy routines but neither is as successfulSitcoms, in the UK at least, are…
Five years after its landmark Out of Asia season, Sadler's Wells presents a second programme of eastern choreography. From the minimalism of TAO Dance Theatre to the epic Under Siege, take a…
National Theatre, LondonYou can see Tennessee Williams's Blanche DuBois in one of two ways: as an embodiment of the poetic spirit destroyed by crude reality or as a southern snob tragically …
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Jermyn Street theatre, London Before writing children's classics, Milne was a popular dramatist. His 1922 comedy about eloping lovers gets an excellent revival by Nichola McAuliffeLondon's s…
Playwrights Horizons, New YorkCan turtle soup heal the rift between a father and son? This play about the emotional uses of food is poignant, but its philosophical maxims are too sweetWe eat…
Reports of the Canadian standup's retirement have been exaggerated. Touring his new show Pun Gent, he says he's ditched his anxiety " and is asking UK audiences to connect the dotsTwo years …
Classic covers from the New York jukebox musical starring Michael C Hall will join the late star's last recordings in a combined releaseAn album featuring David Bowie's final recordings will…
When photographer Loren McIntyre travelled to the Javari valley it overturned everything he knew about the world. I'm retelling his journey with a microphone " you listen with headphonesComp…
Aldeburgh, SuffolkTwo short new plays skilfully compress stories of cultural power in Boko Haram-ravaged Nigeria, and an agile and eloquent mountaineering romanceNow celebrating its 10th yea…
Last call beckons for for Helen McCrory's The Deep Blue Sea, David Hoyle delivers an education, Great Yarmouth goes Out There, and National Theatre Wales celebrates Roald Dahl It's almost yo…
RSC combines with Intel and Imaginarium Studios to bring performance-capture technology to live theatreThe head of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) may be more versed in the language of t…
The Aboriginal actor and writer radically retools Henry Lawson's short story into a bush thriller with elements of her own family history In the rehearsal room at Sydney's Belvoir Street The…
The actor and director on addiction and success, Trump's bankruptcies, and the film he wrote that no one will see for 100 yearsJohn Malkovich has acted in 98 films and is about to make his L…
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonSadie Frost as Gypsy Rose Lee fails to enliven Zoe Lewis's play about a wartime gathering of Britten, Auden and McCullersThere is always an excitement at being in …
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe American troupe's thrilling programmes transform oppression into a night of pure joyThere is a haunting symmetry to the opening-night programme of Alvin Ailey Ameri…
Producer Judith Dimant's personal experience and director Bryony Kimmings's radical ideas have combined to moving effect in an original new showIn the theatre, work in progress is fiercely p…
Soho theatre, LondonDespite some magnetic moments " and a Pussy Rioter " Belarus Free Theatre fails to catch fireIn their home country, the founder members of Belarus Free Theatre face deten…
Dundee Rep, and touringJohn McGrath's influential play about the history of the Highlands lives up to expectationsTry as you might not to let it happen, there are times when personal prejudi…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAntony Sher is a shade too controlled as the maddened king in Gregory Doran's fluent productionThe play that Dr Johnson thought too painful to b…
Actor will return to the UK in order to stage Zach Helm's play Good Canary at Kingston's Rose theatreThe American actor John Malkovich is heading to the UK " not to the West End stage, but t…
Crucible, SheffieldThe cast offer a high-spirited depiction of male camaraderie in this play about the Sheffield blitz of 1940, but the show most impresses as a portrait of a cityKieran Know…
The musical tells the story of travellers grounded in the remote Canadian town of Gander on 9/11 " yet despite the sensitive subject matter, it has received huge ovations and is bound for Br…
Ria Andriani became blind at the age of five as the result of glaucoma. Thanks to tactile tours and audio descriptors, it hasn't stopped her enjoying theatreThe Rabbits, written by Kate Mill…