There's a bewildering number of productions at the Edinburgh festival " remove the guesswork with our guide to shows we already know are brilliantEdinburgh is not cheap, and an awful lot of …
Royal Opera House LondonWith a flourish of capes and a clicking of castanets, the company match the richness of their material in this visually stunning new production When the Bolshoi perfo…
National Theatre director Rufus Norris initiates 'listening project' to help form cultural response to EU referendum resultThe Brexit vote has been a "huge wake-up call" to the arts that the…
If you're lucky enough to have seen the new Harry Potter play, we want to hear what you thought about itThe latest expansion of the Harry Potter universe is finally with us in the form of Ha…
Critics have filed their reviews of the first Potter stage play, and they're universally positive Related: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: the West End extravaganza " in pictures With the…
The preview performances are over, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is starting its run on London's West End. Peer behind the curtain with these photographs of the latest chapter in the…
Lyric theatre, Sydney Australia finally gets the Tony and Olivier award-winning adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic by Dennis Kelly and local hero Tim Minchin on his homepatch' Roald Dahl dow…
Eight young actors who played the title role share one of musical's four acting awards, while Minchin wins best original scoreMatilda the Musical has won 13 awards including best musical at …
New research suggests 'a psychological cost' for performers " but implies actors have higher than usual imaginative facilitiesWho'd be an actor? According to a recent study conducted by res…
Palace theatre, LondonIt's convoluted, but the latest expansion of the Potter universe is thrillingly staged, with time travel and age-old quests given a dash of post-Freudian guilt"Keep the…
Our series celebrating the World Shakespeare festival continues with a look at the playwright's mutual love affair with ItalyAccording to a most eccentric breed of anti-Stratfordians " the p…
The historic space opened in 1875 and although built to hold 3,000 will reopen as a multi-functional space for up to 1,300An abandoned Victorian theatre hidden inside Alexandra Palace that h…
With Bernstein's complex score, Sondheim's witty lyrics and Robbins's exuberant dance sequences, this show is near perfectWhen asked to defend musical theatre " and this happens annoyingly o…
Actor to direct show faithful to the landmark 1956 production that made her a star, with the original set designs and Cecil Beaton costumesJulie Andrews plans to channel the spirit of her or…
The musical take on The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring Michael C Hall and directed by Ivo van Hove, comes to London following a strong New York debutFollowing a well-received run in New Yor…
Young Vic, LondonCreated by refugee writers, this affecting double-header is a reminder that everyone has a story worth tellingWhen Michael (Jonathan Livingstone) first arrived in the UK, fl…
'Unapologetically weird' show, one of the star's final projects, to run this winter at the King's Cross TheatreDavid Bowie's stage musical Lazarus, a sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth, is …
New York Theatre WorkshopCo-written and featuring songs by David Bowie, this jukebox musical based on The Man Who Fell to Earth is a thrilling theatrical odyssey " and almost impossible to u…
I led a fairly rackety life but was always serious about acting. At Stratford, in As You Like It, I got my first laugh in ShakespeareI started out as one of the worst Shakespearean actors " …
From Billie Piper playing Yerma to eyecatching festivals in Bristol and Stratford-upon-Avon, here are the week's big stage openings Related: Cuttin' It review " streetwise drama evolves into…
After touring Hamlet in 1980, the actor succumbed to the 'worm of doubt' " but a job playing Shakespeare's quick-witted hero forced him to face his anxietyI'd been on a world tour of Hamlet,…
He was the toast of Edinburgh, he's written a novel and he's had a play put on at the RSC. Yet, comedian Russell Kane is prone to rages and plagued by doubtTen years ago, before he'd even dr…
Royal Court, LondonCaryl Churchill's angry but fluid 15-minute piece presents a multiplicity of voices, all talking about the attitudes that lead to Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality ActLess is al…
As an actor for Kubrick and Visconti and a model feted by Yves Saint Laurent, she charmed the 70s. Now she's making her Shakespearean debutAs a model in the early 70s, Marisa Berenson was ha…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickBroad 60s comedy and sharp millennial political drama share a venue as the Cumbrian rep company ends an eraIt began life in 1952 as a "Blue Box" " a mobile theatr…