A new global study has found standups are more likely to die early than actors. According to Ben Pobjie, it's not just the lifestyle that's a killerThis week, the International Journal of Ca…
Comedian Nish Kumar is used to making politicians look ridiculous but they've started doing his job for him. How on earth do standups keep up with our leaders' antics and a political upheava…
The Hawth, CrawleyThere's a strain of mathematical nerdiness to all one-liner specialists, of course; the remorseless wordplay, the dismantling of linguistic certainties brick by brick, sugg…
Former Home Office minister takes on brief including the BBC, press regulation, and the future of Channel 4 Home Office minister Karen Bradley has been named as the new culture secretary in …
My colleague and friend Francis Reid, who has died aged 85, was a man of the theatre: not an actor, playwright or director, but a significant player whose contribution was made backstage. He…
The Doctor Who star could have played it safe when he returned to theatre. Instead he joined an ensemble creating a show from scratch in rehearsals. Career suicide? Not at all When Matt Smit…
Coliseum, LondonChoreographer Graeme Murphy gives his characters a more contemporary edge and it's the principals, especially Amber Scott, who carry the eveningWhen Australian Ballet first b…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonRay Rackham's musical brings us three Garlands at different periods of her life and deals with the causes and the symptoms of the star's declineI once said that I'…
Katy Brand and Kieran Hodgson were intimidated at first by the idea of going it alone on stage. But plenty of comedians journey between sketch troupes and solo performance " taking refuge in…
Game of Thrones actor who starred in West End show Doctor Faustus says prejudice towards younger fans could kill theatreKit Harington, the Game of Thrones star who found himself at the centr…
Christopher Haydon is stepping down as the AD of London's Gate theatre after five years in the post. Finding the right time to move on is vitalHow long should an artistic director stay in po…
The Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan theatre is celebrating its 30th birthday with a season that includes The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Rover. Those two plays were performed in the Swan's fi…
Capitol theatre, SydneyInspired by another royal love story, Graeme Murphy's bold and daring update of the Russian classic tells a deeply human story, swans or no swans"There were three of u…
Producer Cameron Mackintosh turned the West End musical into a global franchise. And he's not finished yet. New shows are opening round the world, new theatres are being purchased ... the em…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughA seemingly second-rate improv troupe zips through dated scenarios " expecting full audience participation " in Ayckbourn's ridiculously funny spoof Who on…
The Yard, LondonEncounter's bad-taste comedy is weird, macabre and totally over the top but it's grounded in emotional truthThe horrible Wormwood parents in Roald Dahl's Matilda have nothing…
Sadler's Wells, London Patrias, the flamenco guitarist's tribute to the Spanish writer, features superb dance solos but the multimedia projections intrude on the spectacleFederico GarcÃa …
Producer bemoans behaviour of some audience members during Kit Harington's final performance in Doctor Faustus Is there no refuge for the cultured elite, where high art can be enjoyed away f…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonFiasco's inventive, vigorous version of Stephen Sondheim's modern fairytale doesn't entirely mask the problems of James Lapin's convoluted bookFiasco Theater'…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonImprobable's Lifegame, a cross between This is Your Life and a madly inventive improv game, is all heart, but with a mighty whack of skill thrown in, too. The premis…
One of the leading heroic actors of his generation, whose clarion voice would reverberate to the RSC's raftersWhen the great Shakespearean actor Alan Howard, who has died aged 77, returned t…
Andrew Upton's adaptation of Chekhov's Platonov will be taken to Broadway later this year, a first for a Sydney Theatre Company production Related: The Present review " Cate Blanchett and R…
St James Studio, LondonA sex-obsessed cop chases an investigation all the way to a burlesque dive in a preposterous, nastily misogynistic show that quickly runs out of steamSince the success…
Arcola, LondonHicks confirms his gift for exploring unbalanced minds in this riveting adaptation of the Russian author's novella, directed by John TerryWhen Nancy Harris's adaptation of Tols…
If you saw KlangHaus at the Edinburgh fringe in 2014, your ears might still be ringing. Pitched somewhere between gig, theatre and exhibition, it's been reborn as KlangHaus: On Air and is be…