Ireland's international festival has shown the merits of merging different art forms while reawakening enthusiasm for a much-reprised Beckett classicThey were dancing in the streets last wee…
Influential choreographer and teacher who used improvisation in both the creation and performance of her worksWhen new Place prize for choreography was launched in 2004, the most surprising …
Soho theatre, LondonThe US comedian's series of self-centred anecdotes are diverting enough, but she leaves it late to show that she's wise to her personaAn anecdote late in Jen Kirkman's sh…
Clown Dimitri, student of Marcel Marceau, made his name as man of few words in a country with four official languages Clown Dimitri, a beloved Swiss clown and mime artist who studied under M…
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsWhy can some people remember jokes a…
Grosvenor Park theatre, Chester Clive King's classic tale of a boy's friendship with a mysterious caveman is retold with panache, poignancy and rousing percussion in this absorbing adaptatio…
'You can't make intersectional feminism funny,' says Coombs Marr as Dave, her alter ego. He goes on to make it hilarious, in a show that everyone should seeI'm lobbying for a new person-of-t…
Actor, currently playing Shakespeare's villainous king, says Brexit has brought the Bard's historical play a newfound pertinenceIt is a story of vaulting ambition and ruthless scheming which…
New Wolsey theatre, IpswichShakespeare veteran Trevor Nunn finally tackles the Bard's much-loved comedy " and in some styleA Midsummer Night's Dream was the first Shakespeare play the 12-yea…
Veteran stage and screen actor who played Auntie Flo in the popular 1970s sitcom And Mother Makes ThreeThe actor Valerie Lush, who has died aged 97, was a familiar face in the 1970s as the c…
Leisureland, Salthill, GalwayThe playwright embraces a new form of category-defying theatre in a story of love and oppression that echoes Orwell's 1984No Galway international arts festival s…
Join us at 7.30pm BST on Saturday 23 July to watch the final night of Mike Bartlett's acclaimed play Wild, live from Hampstead theatre. Or watch the play on demand afterwardsMichael Billingt…
Part docu-theatre, part love story, the innovative Privacy reveals that the more we share online, the less available our interior lives become to ourselvesAt the beginning of Privacy, James …
We applaud the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation's commission of Danuta Kean's research into opportunities for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) performers in British musical theatre (Rep…
A caravan, a shipping container and a freshly made double bed are the settings for inventive productions at the festival, where theatre-makers must work hard to hold the audience's attention…
In a new play written for the Guardian, the award-winning writer of political smashes This House and The Vote goes inside the Brexit bunker as its sweaty-palmed task force prepare to trigger…
Anjana Vasan, who is starring in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe in London, performs a musical triptych inspired by the songs in As You Like It. This is the sixth film in the British …
It began as a Broadway afterparty for guests including Monica Lewinsky. Now, the Good Wife star is taking his confessional one-man show to Edinburgh, with a sappy songbook that runs from Liz…
Bravo to Kit Harington for defending his young fans going to the theatre, but quite simply, this magical form only works if everybody is bought into itKit Harington, star of the ubiquitous G…
Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West is in Glasgow, you can see a preview of Paines Plough's Edinburgh season in Hackney, Cuttin' It is in Sheffield and the wonderful Departure Lounge is in D…
Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr are fans, but Francesca Martinez, who has cerebal palsy, still can't get a gig on TVAt the end of an hour's interview in a bar in north-west London, comedian Fra…
Goold's wife Kate Fleetwood was cast alongside Patrick Stewart in his Soviet-styled 2007 production " the 'luckiest' show the director has worked onI was in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2006, abou…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis telling of David Holthouse's quest for revenge on the man who raped him as a child works less well on stage than on the radio or in journalismSome stories nee…
Actor who played Dr Gordon in the 1970s screen phenomenon of The Adventures of Black BeautyWilliam Lucas, who has died aged 91, was already a veteran television actor before he played Dr Gor…
Minerva, ChichesterAnne Reid and James Bolam star in Beaton's dark comedy about fracking that becomes an outright plea for direct actionAlistair Beaton's forte is topical satire. His most re…