Sadlers Wells, LondonJonathon Young and Crystal Pite collaborate to turn a traumatising experience into riveting drama and virtuosic danceIn 2009, Jonathon Young's teenage daughter died with…
It has been entertaining Londoners with immersive screenings of cult classics for a decade, and now Australian and US audiences could be about to get a tasteGood news, Australia. Secret Cine…
Soho theatre, LondonA couple must murder their way to a perfect property in this morality play about a materialistic world where enough is never enoughThere is no doubt as to the hot theatri…
After years of shouting, comedian Sam Wills covered his mouth with duct tape and devised a new show. But he won't be on Mock the WeekA complaint often levelled at 21st-century standup is tha…
The idea of costume as a transformative tool, on and off stage, was adopted before pop was born, as a book and a new exhibition illustrateLoie Fuller had only a modest talent as an actor and…
Young Vic, LondonTwo outwardly confident school friends share a secret in Charlene James's drama exploring the betrayal involved in UK female genital mutilationIt all begins so innocently an…
Dalcrue farm, PitcairngreenIn a field in Perthshire at dawn, this spine-tingling music-theatre piece told the stories of 306 traumatised young men who were executed for cowardiceThere's moun…
Fancy hunting for your dinner in a forest, or eating at Twin Peaks' Double R Diner? Immersive dining's mix of theatre and innovative cooking could be for youIn east London, a sniffy butler i…
A dark take on the family drama in the post-financial crisis era, The Humans has been one of the most critically raved-about plays on Broadway for yearsStephen Karam is of two minds about th…
The cast of the seminal 80s improv show: 'We were in the middle of a Titanic sketch when a pipe burst and the place filled with water'' What Does the Title Matter Anyway?: reviewThis show wa…
Jeremy Corbyn, pervy sexual tension, tiny horned hamsters ... improv comedy star Proops chucks anything into the mix on Whose Line Is It Anyway? As its London stage run begins, he reveals th…
As his seminal 1980 play, True West, is revived in London, the influential playwright reflects on the diminishing global role of the US, and the deaths of his friends Philip Seymour Hoffman …
My friend John Avery, who has died aged 89, was general manager of the London Palladium for 20 years until his retirement in 1992. In that time he worked with some of the best in show busine…
Al Pesso, who has died aged 86, was an innovative master of body-based psychotherapy. With his wife Diane, he created a method now known as the Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP).While t…
Coliseum, LondonA glittering Glenn Close is ready once again for her close-up as Norma DesmondIt is more than 20 years since Glenn Close first starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Bouleva…
As James Corden fans waiting to see One Man, Two Guvnors in the West End now know, the big-name actor may not be the one you see on stage. But sometimes these performances are the bestYou've…
Sheridan Smith and Glenn Close are among the stars whose stand-ins have recently wowed audiences. From the panic to the euphoria, understudies describe the delirious experience of replacing …
Lesley Manville as a post-punk shepherdess, Juliet Stevenson in pinstripes and a forest of silk … the designer behind the RSC's As You Like It in 1985 explains his approach to the playsWhe…
It's just an ordinary weekend at the Arizona compound of America's most abrasive standup. But who is the man behind the foul-mouthed rants?I've never done an interview quite like this. Usual…
Joseph Fiennes is in Adrian Noble's Rattigan revival in Chichester, the Verbatim piece Chilcot opens at Battersea Arts Centre and you can go Into the Woods at the West Yorkshire Playhouse " …
US standup branded 'a bully with a microphone' after targeting Allison Pearson for her views on assisted suicideAmerican standup comedian Doug Stanhope has faced criticism after a tweet wish…
I'd never really talked about being gay in my comedy show " until I was bombarded with abuse for kissing my date in Soho' Full Edinburgh festival 2014 coverage' Al Lubel: my performance anxi…
The Threepenny Opera at the English National Theatre (Songs for the louche and low-life, 28 May) gave that theatre an unparalleled opportunity to intervene in our public life, as the authors…
Teacher, choreographer and popular judge on the BBC's Come DancingAlthough Peggy Spencer's life revolved around the ballroom, she never thought of herself as a dancer or choreographer; she w…
Royal Opera House, LondonMcGregor's all-male Obsidian Tear, one of his strongest works to date, contrasts with brutal Kenneth MacMillan, plus superbly performed Christopher WheeldonAs Wayne …