Double Indemnity offers female archetypes, Trilogy is a feminist masterwork and Quippings has been called 'crip burlesque'Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Double Indemnity is both g…
The Vaults, LondonAn engaging performance from Hannah Norris holds this atmospheric drama together but the audience is still left in the darkThe young woman welcoming us on to the aeroplane …
Brandon Victor Dixon and Lexi Lawson are taking over roles in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony award-winning showThe ground-breaking American stage musical Hamilton, winner of 11 Tony awards and th…
The pilots of the first world war had a life expectancy of 11 days. Geraldine Pilgrim is telling their story " with the help of a croquet club and a homing pigeon societyStaging an outdoor p…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterElliot Levey and Tracy-Ann Oberman star in an adaptation of Howard Jacobson's rollicking novel about table tennis and onanismLike all great comic novels, Howard Jac…
Barbican, LondonCardboard Citizens' remarkable version of the TV drama was followed by a fiery discussion in which Loach condemned the government's 'conscious cruelty'Can art change anything…
She advised Ed Miliband and wrote gags for Harriet Harman. Now Ayesha Hazarika is turning her heady Whitehall days into standupAyesha Hazarika is hungover, but it's nothing to do with drink.…
Queens of Syria, an adaptation of Euripides' antiwar tragedy The Trojan Women, will visit London, Liverpool and EdinburghFor Sham, who fled Syria with her family, life in Damascus before the…
The report on how the UK went to war with Iraq in 2003 will run to 2.6m words, but a reconstruction of the key evidence is rather more easily digestibleThe evidence was devastating. Week aft…
Performed by Belgian teenagers, The Hamilton Complex forces us to adjust our worldview. In the UK, adult anxieties are stifling children's cultural experience"As a kid I never got to decide …
Theatre Room, LondonThis two-woman update of Life Is a Dream is brilliantly performed and looks at the Spanish play from a fresh perspectiveThis two-woman version of Calderón's Spanish cl…
In exposing our leaders' fallibility, it's natural to invoke Shakespeare but that crowns them with borrowed grandeur. A better reference point would be Dryden's brand of mock-heroic satireAt…
Diversity is key to ensuring a new generation shape theatre's future. But endless development isn't enough " new plays must be put in front of audiencesThe theatre industry is eager to incre…
As the Tour de France rolls through Leeds, Maxine Peake's play celebrates life of Beryl Burton, a cyclist who amazed the cycling world in 1967The Tour de France is often described as a battl…
Beyond the shiny, high-profile regeneration projects, independent, left-field Manchester is still thriving, as our guide to its vibrant bars, restaurants, music venues and creative arts scen…
Court rules Mariafrancesca Garritano was fired unfairly for claiming dance school was responsible for dancers' eating disordersItaly's top court has ordered the rehiring of a La Scala baller…
Patrick Marber and James Graham tell Vanessa Thorpe why it's vital performing arts stay on syllabusPatrick Marber and James Graham, two of Britain's most highly regarded playw…
Watch a theatrical restaging of Ken Loach's drama, followed by a panel discussion about homelessness, live from the Barbican in London at 7.30pm BST on Tuesday 5 JulyFifty years ago, Ken Loa…
The Hollywood star says she'll turn on Kettering's Christmas lights. When she's in town, she should check out our mummified cat and smell the WeetabixDear Lindsay Lohan, Glad to hear that yo…
The north and south breed different senses of humour. Johnny Vegas looks at faults in himself while Jimmy Carr deflects outwards. My new gag gets laughs in Hull and nowt in WindsorPicture th…
When he played Bolingbroke in a 1960s Prospect production, West discovered a play divided between his character and the king " and learned that McKellen is a white-wine actor while he's defi…
Jonathan Pryce brings Liverpool his Merchant of Venice, Geraldine Pilgrim takes flight in the Lake District and Syrian refugees stage Euripides in London Continue reading...
The comedian relives her teenage years as a fervent evangelical Christian in her new show. As she prepares for the Edinburgh festival, she talks about preaching in shopping centres and comic…
Acts as musically diverse as the Justice Crew and Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu pay homage to Mandawuy Yunupingu The ruckus begins up the road, towards the beach. Stabbing shouts, the piercing…
The actor on rebellion, the power of fear, why Damian Lewis would never offer advice, and the irrelevance of awardsTom Sturridge, 30, is the son of the actor Phoebe Nicholls and the director…