Composer, who backs boycott of Israeli government, says Batsheva cannot use his music at embassy-sponsored event The composer and producer Brian Eno has denied permission for one of Israel's…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe present moment breathes through every pore as the long-established US dance troupe begin their UK tour with superb and energetic confidenceNo company in the world h…
King's Cross theatre, LondonThe CBeebies favourite has been cast as Mr Perks in this imaginative adaptation of E Nesbit's classic " but the real star of the show pulls in later"Dad?" Six-yea…
Roy Hudd wrote the panto for Wilton's 2016-17 Christmas season and his wife, Debbie Flitcroft, will direct Continue reading...
My play Dead Sheep, about Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe, already included a prime minister's downfall, a machinating wife and an ambitious blond maverick. Reworking it since the refere…
The Powerhouse, BrisbaneIn the new production from Dublin's Theatreclub, five volunteer men are called on for a confronting but inconclusive examination of the sex industryAs you walk in to …
After his success with E4's Glue, Thorne is returning to the theatre with Hope, a drama at the Royal Court about local government budget cutsDespite having been up late last Monday night at …
From autumn, channel will focus on arts including poetry and dance, with intention of making BBC2 a 'cultural destination'BBC2 is entering the Saturday night ratings battle, taking on The X …
Australian academic David McInnis claims literary bias by first editors of OED has credited Shakespeare with inventing phrases in common Elizabethan useShakespeare did not coin phrases such …
The new artistic director of Edinburgh's Lyceum theatre explains how The Suppliant Women, Aeschylus's 2,500-year-old play about a refugee crisis, offers a 'profound statement on the purpose …
Germaine Greer appears on a Shakespeare-themed episode of the ABC's Q&A program and responds to an audience member who asks about the relevance of the playwright's work to modern Austral…
Part podcast, part therapy session, The Comedian's Comedian offers a peek into the inner life of standups. Meet its creator, Stuart Goldsmith"I basically find a comedian, find out how they w…
Maxine Peake returns to the Royal Exchange in Manchester this month as Blanche in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Sarah Frankcom. In this exclusive video, designed …
The Mona Lisa star on playing Marie Curie, founding a theatre company and working with her musician sonIn February, you'll be playing Marie Curie in Alan Alda's play Radiance, which is as mu…
There was an outpouring of emotional candour from standups at the Edinburgh festival, but Schumer skilfully keeps her anxieties at a safe distanceDoes Amy Schumer's new tour justify the hype…
Unicorn theatre, LondonThis garden-set solo show fascinates 10-month-old Laurie, who claps, aaahs approvingly and then attempts to eat the propsWhen was the last time you enjoyed a piece of …
Sylvie Guillem will present her final dance programme at Sadler's Wells, London, in 2015. Revisit her journey from Parisian ballerina to global dance sensationJudith Mackrell on Sylvie Guill…
Darcey Bussell was very friendly with the floor in rehearsals. Kevin Clifton's Thriller-style tango tanked on live TV. And Thomas Whiteread got trapped in his ballerina's underwear. Seven da…
Maxine Peake arrive as Blanche DuBois in Manchester, Maria Aberg's Doctor Faustus pays a house call to the Barbican and Tron tells of the life of Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-SommerBeth Ste…
The Vagina Monologues shot writer Eve Ensler to stardom. Now she is a global campaigner who plans to call a billion women out on strike against rapeWho could have predicted what an effe…
Soho theatre, LondonMaria Alyokhina's dramatisation of artists targeted by Putin is most powerful when it evokes the dark political farce of PinterThe arrest and imprisonment of the Russian …
Macrobert Arts Centre, StirlingRapture's flat production of Michael Frayn's 2003 play has more the stagy air of Yes, Prime Minister than the the sharpness of House of CardsThey say Adolf Hit…
St Petersburg Ballet's no doubt heartfelt take on the refugee crisis is undone by poor plotting, weak choreography and some astonishingly ill-judged costumesThe St Petersburg Ballet Theatre …
Found 111, LondonOwen McCafferty's sharp drama of sexual entanglement features a crackling performance from Niamh Cusack"We are still ourselves when we lie." Unfaithful is made up of ingeni…
Edinburgh PlayhouseThe fabulously filthy standup has plenty to say about gun control and the Kardashians too"Why are you late, sluts?" half-barks, half-beams Amy Schumer as a couple of tiddl…