Polka theatre, LondonThis children's show is boosted by a beautiful set design and imaginatively realised creatures, including a couple of sock-snailsI'm no expert in woodland creatures and …
Theatr Clwyd, Mold With a chequerboard lawn, Italianate follies and an audience on garden chairs, Shakespeare's play is given a Portmeirion-style designTamara Harvey has stated that she want…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBenjamin Millepied's young company asserts itself as a future force in dance with this trilogy loosely linked around the theme of precious stones Related: Benjamin Mill…
Theatre has found all sorts of lively ways to represent death " it's been done with butchered cabbages and even bright pink blancmangeBugsy is back in town. I mean Bugsy Malone, Sean Holmes'…
From trying out the trapeze to finding his own moral compass, the actor on the challenges of playing Shakespeare's flawed king in the RSC's history cycle My older brother died when I was fin…
The latest from the brilliant Anthony Neilson opens at the Royal Court, Dundee Rep hosts girls behaving badly, Howard Jacobson relives his Manchester childhood, and the On the Edge festival …
Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker claims Beyoncé borrowed her routines in the video for new single CountdownA leading choreographer has accused Beyoncé of "stealing" dance moves, af…
Barbican, LondonSet amid the Indigenous Australian community, this loose adaptation by Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre stirs Shakespeare's text into a rich linguistic stewKing Lear has lent it…
Hampstead theatre, London NW3This edgy tale of a Snowden-type whistleblower is over-reliant on its stagey finaleMike Bartlett is one of our most protean playwrights. On telly: Doctor Foster;…
Les Nuits de Fourvière, LyonRobert Lepage pulls no punches as he revisits the notorious marquis in the asylumRobert Lepage is the Marquis de Sade. In pigtailed perruque and high heels, turn…
Birmingham HippodromeWink, The Moor's Pavane and The Shakespeare Suite take on not just the bard's heroes and villains, but the sonnets to bootBirmingham Royal Ballet have been celebrating t…
New Wolsey theatre, IpswichTrevor Nunn's staging is triumphant, the acting finely judged, but the British Raj setting has some conceptual flawsA Midsummer Night's Dream was the first Shakesp…
The actress talks about her dream role in The Seagull, her debt to Four Weddings… and why we need more working-class writersAnna Chancellor, 51, lived a "chaotic" life before finding succe…
The 29-year-old playwright talks about the pressures of early success, hanging out with Lena Dunham " and co-writing a horror film set in the LA fashion worldPolly Stenham wrote her first pl…
With his show, My Family, due for a West End transfer, the comedian tells us why he has no regrets about sharing his parents' intimate secrets on stageDavid Baddiel's one-man show includes b…
The death of a Palestinian talent show winner highlights the fate of millions fleeing warIt was, according to all who saw it, an inspired performance by a talented contemporary dance company…
The east London-raised standup reflects on life in the US, braving shark-like audiences who can smell fear " and John Cleese's disastrous turn as an MCYou relocated from London to Los Angele…
Ahead of appearing in stage play Neville's Island in the West End, Ade Edmondson reflects on his life and work, and on the recent deaths of three close friends, including his Young Ones co-s…
The author on staging his deeply personal Manchester novel in the city to which it belongsNext month the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester stages a dramatisation of my novel The Mighty Wa…
Award-winning playwright Lucy Prebble tells Tim Adams how dramatising the Enron scandal called for high tragedyLucy Prebble puts her faith in the idea that there is nowhere a writer, particu…
Leading figures from the arts " including Lucy Prebble, Anish Kapoor, Ivo van Hove and Barrie Rutter " reveal their shock, anger and revulsion at the vote to leave the EUEU referendum outcom…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonRay Fearon and Tara Fitzgerald give feverish performances but this production has an aura of perverse oddity " why do the Macbeths have a child?Iqbal Khan's produc…
Faced with rave reviews of musicals, films, books and plays, why does Oliver Burkeman run a mile?Somewhere around the 500th headline I read in praise of Hamilton, the universally acclaimed B…
Birmingham HippodromeJessica Lang's rippling Wink, inspired by the sonnets, leads a set of pieces paying tribute to the great playwrightBirmingham Royal Ballet will unveil a full-length Temp…
The city's dance festival makes the most of its spectacular spaces " not least with Shobana Jeyasingh's Outlander, which responds to the Renaissance masterpiece The Wedding at Cana A blast o…