Royal Exchange, ManchesterHattie Naylor's beautifully deft adaptation springs Sarah Waters's bestseller on to the stage in a pitch-perfect productionWhat a haunting, unusual thing Hattie Nay…
Drew McOnie delivers skilful storytelling and terrific dancing with an inspired Jekyll and Hyde set in 1950s LondonThe narrative issue is one of the most pressing in dance today. Very few ch…
Crucible, SheffieldAn improbable new musical about a postwar London charlady in love with haute couture works like a charm, with a transcendent performance from Clare BurtGive yourself whole…
Garrick, LondonLily James and Richard Madden certainly look the part, but are doomed by their dictionIt's easy to think the famous golden lines, the swift, sad arc of Romeo and Juliet will c…
From Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev to the opium hallucination scene in La Bayadère, artist Mark Wallinger talks about how ballet had him hooked from an early ageI first saw Margot Fonte…
To comedy fans the standup legend's death at the age of 32 was every bit as significant as those of John Lennon and Kurt Cobain. As his classic Arizona Bay is rereleased, does Hicks still ha…
Of course there is swearing in the National's production of The Threepenny Opera. The play is an attack on bourgeois valuesEver wanted to stand up in front of a vast crowd of genteel, cultur…
The cheeky comic actor is best known for her audacious cameos in the films Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids. But, as her forthcoming role in Guys and Dolls suggests, she is also equipped for th…
Former 007 makes film appeal to raise funds for Ovalhouse, the London drama group that inspired his careerPierce Brosnan came to fame playing poised and imperturbable characters such as 007 …
Pershing Square Signature Center, New YorkEisenberg is such a skilled practitioner of the comedy of mortification it's surprising he can talk through all the feet in his mouth " but is it ti…
Campbell's new National Theatre play was inspired by the despair, rage and determination of Greek anti-austerity protesters, but also by the discovery that the history of his family echoed t…
He started work on his greatest verse cycle; she painted, wrote and danced. Laura Barnett reports on a new play trying to uncover the truth about the relationship between the poet and his ma…
Maryam Golding's three oldest sons " an artist, a soldier and a ballet dancer " are all on the way to the top. Much of that, they say, is due to their parents, who brought them up to be fier…
Nassim Soleimanpour is not allowed to leave Iran. His play, with no director, no rehearsals and no set, draws attention to his status as a censored writerModern theatre audiences have become…
After a rare stage appearance at Stewart Lee's recent standup gig, the Brass Eye comedian is returning to TV. Now, more than ever, we need a satirist with his fearlessnessBrendon Burns wrote…
They're practising their silly walks, expecting the Spanish Inquisition and always looking on the bright side of life ... Monty Python are back. Their show at the O2 arena promises 'comedy, …
Ian McKellen, Sigourney Weaver, Ruby Wax, Stephen Poliakoff, Richard Wilson and others remember a peerless actor and friendAlan was perhaps our most distinctive and unique stage and film per…
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New YorkThe Wall Street maniac rides again in a musical rich in synth pop and buff bodies, but the meaning of the original novel slides off the slick surroundingsH…
The adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's modern classic couldn't survive in a competitive theater landscape where only the very best is good enoughThe Broadway run of American Psycho, the music…
There are few more vivid evocations of how it feels to fall for someone than in Chagall's ecstatic paintings of his wife. As Kneehigh's production about the pair opens at Bristol Old Vic, Da…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsFeaturing just a pair of characters, the teenage and adult Billy, this is one of the most modest " but best " stagings of the novelAmong the tributes following…
Barbican, LondonMitchell, playwright Duncan Macmillan, video artist Leo Warner and a band of onstage camera operators deliver a close-up view of wartime dilemmasIn The Forbidden Zone, the wo…
Playwright whose work captured the conflicts of class and race in 1960s BritainBarry Reckord, who has died aged 85, was a pioneering playwright from the Caribbean with an under-explored lega…
Old Vic, LondonPart Robert Louis Stevenson, part Little Shop of Horrors, the McOnie Company's discombobulating dance adaptation is dynamic, clever and a bit retrogradeThe tale of Jekyll and …
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