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Live theatre, NewcastleThe Tyne and Wear Metro is the setting of Emilie Robson's evocative new play about two teen friends but something darker rumbles beneath
Emilie Robson's insinuating ne…
Innovative founder of the Almeida theatre in London and director of the Dutch National Opera
Based successively in London, the Netherlands and France, Pierre Audi, who has died suddenly age…
Francesca Moody and Gary McNair's innovative DIY solution to Covid restrictions will be revamped for a series of in-person, one-off shows
When the 2020 Edinburgh fringe was cancelled due to …
What's behind all the revivals of the shocking parable about terrifying McCarthyism in 1950s America? Our writer reflects on how, through the decades, each fresh production finds new meaning…
The musician is to debut as a theatre composer for W Somerset Maugham's 1926 comedy adapted by Laura Wade and directed by Tamara Harvey
Jamie Cullum is to make his debut as a theatre compose…
A searingly intimate observation of an alternative production of Hamlet, where many of the actors are soldiers from the frontline
What is the use of art in time of war? Shot a few months pri…
Riverside Studios, LondonHumour abounds in this Star Wars-themed cabaret, as Boba Fett bumps and grinds while Han Solo and Chewbacca share a Backstreet Boys number
Might there be an overlap …
The intimate correspondence of a Manchester Guardian journalist and his wife is the basis for a theatre piece marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day
During a house move, a cardboard box belo…
Artistic director of Kali Theatre, the company founded to encourage writing by south Asian women
From 2016 until her death, at the age of 64 after being diagnosed with cancer, Helena Bell wa…
Bloomsbury theatre, LondonProfundity is in short supply in this celebration of received thinking about wrinkles and randy husbands " but McCartney makes the familiar shine
'Give me a shout i…
National Endowment for the Arts notifies organizations that offers of government grants were terminated
Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants ha…
Globe theatre, LondonDirector Sean Holmes's high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare's fractious Verona
The warring Houses of Montague and Capul…
My mother-in-law, Sara Lemkow, who has died aged 102, was, under the stage name Sara Luzita, an acclaimed dancer for 20 years.
As a dance student in London at the outbreak of the second worl…
Toby Jones, Frances McDormand and Mike Myers are some of those who have appeared alongside Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree, despite never having seen the script before. As the play celebrates its …
Chichester Festival theatreThe standup brings his easy stage command to the role of a penniless nincompoop who tricks his way into authority in Gregory Doran's production
A satire by a Ukrai…
Oxford PlayhouseThere is one 24-carat scene after another as a cast of two switch from bloodthirsty to comedic without toil or trouble
A significant scattering of teenagers attend this show …
Krapp's Last Tape, in which an old man rummages through recordings of his younger self, is back for two star-powered revivals. This haunting play invites actors and audiences to reconnect wi…
Royal Court theatre, London Singaporean Joel Tan's play revolves around the fate of an ancient statue, in disparate scenes of thrilling complexity played by a zesty cast
Controversies over …
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal have both been left out of this year's nominations for their Shakespeare revival while Audra McDonald makes history
George Clooney and Nicole Scherzinge…
Everyman, LiverpoolNathan Powell sets out his stall with a crowd-pleasing play about intergenerational tensions in a Caribbean cafe
This play by Nathan Powell, appointed creative director at…
Tron theatre, GlasgowA quick-witted trio star in three plays, in roles ranging from an Ulster unionist Homer Simpson to a pandemic prophet
If you were the gambling kind, you would have hedge…
Revival of the 'profoundly moving' Irish pub drama will open at the Olympia theatre in Dublin before arriving in London this autumn
Brendan Gleeson will make his West End debut this autumn i…
Behind-the-scenes look at the TV juggernaut's transformation into a theatrical spectacular, interactive acrobatics with Cirque du Soleil and a spellbinding tribute to Kneehigh are among this…
Dropping the droll, self-obsessed character from his early standup shows, the comic and TV star is swapping millennial irony for the sincerity of song
There was a time when comedians weren't…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London The choreographer pairs the semi-improvised score with similarly loose structures that reflect on collective action and identi…
