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Betroffenheit | Royal Ballet: Mixed Bill | Balletboyz: LifeThis collaboration between choreographer Crystal Pite and director Jonathon Young explores dark themes including grief, trauma and …
Les Blancs | Hamlet | The James Plays | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Funny GirlLorraine Hansberry is best known for her play A Raisin In The Sun and for inspiring Nina Simone's To Be Young, G…
From Not The Nine O'Clock News to Anchorman, the standup reveals the things he finds the funniestThere's a great video that no longer exists of a guy called Nick Sun trying to perform to an …
Globe theatre's chief, and deputy head of RSC at loggerheads over merits of editing Bard's work to make it more relatable to modern audiencesThey are both leading experts in all things Shake…
Olivier, LondonRory Kinnear brings a rasping clarity to Macheath in a production by Rufus Norris that does full justice to Kurt Weill's plangent, sawn-off melodiesWhat does this famous piece…
The X Factor winner will take over the Pussycat Doll's role as Grizabella in the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicalThe X Factor winner Leona Lewis will replace Nicole Scherzin…
I knew the Look Back in Anger sequel Déjà Vu wouldn't work, but I couldn't turn it down. I knew John deserved to be presented again " and that it would be his last playThe very first pla…
Nottingham PlayhouseThis tubthumping update of The Beggar's Opera seems, at times, unfocused despite its powerful casting"What keeps a man alive?" The cri de coeur at the heart of Bertolt Br…
What makes a great stage actor? As a competition to find Britain's best am-dram society gets under way, old hands Roger Allam, Miriam Margolyes and others offer a few words of adviceReading …
This heartening dance-contest doc follows U-16 crew Entity to the big leagues, but shakes up the formula with an element of surpriseNot strictly affiliated to the established British franchi…
The public struggle to keep in step with politicians during the fallout of the financial crisis. David Annen, Cyril Nri and Eileen Walsh star in PPE, a microplay about the power of physical …
Citizens, GlasgowJeremy Herrin's touring revival focuses on the stridency and the heavy tragedy of the 1985 Frank McGuinness play " at the expense of its subtletyRevived to mark the centenar…
Arcola, LondonMike Poulton's play evokes a postwar Britain of curtain-twitching homophobia as it explores Rattigan's relationships through references to The Deep Blue SeaThe actor Kenny Morg…
Garrick theatre, LondonLily James's Juliet has a boozy balcony scene, Richard Madden's Romeo seems genuinely inflamed by love and Derek Jacobi is a lounge-lizard MercutioThere are many ways …
In Lola Arias's new theatre piece, those who fought on opposing sides of the conflict explore their memories togetherLater this week, Lou Armour, a special needs teacher, and Gabriel Sagastu…
As the Chilcot inquiry prepares to report, a Guardian writer explains why he co-created a play out of its astonishing testimonyMore than 100 witnesses spoke at the Chilcot inquiry and its lo…
Choreographer, dancer and pioneer of the lindy hopFrankie Manning, the superlative dancer of the lindy hop, has died aged 94. In his 2007 autobiography, Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy …
Lyric Theatre, New YorkThe popular circus troupe's first Broadway show is a cacophony of ridiculous extravagance, from an erotic aerial pas de deux to … zombiesFitfully thrilling and consi…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJess Thom's condition lends her show an absurdist edge Samuel Beckett would be proud of in an hour that demonstrates unpredictability can be a real spur for cre…
26 May 1926: Wireless, the kinematograph and the theatre are all more or less intellectual amusements. There are plenty of other pastimesA good deal of Moscow's spare time, like the spare ti…
The standup community's displeasure at Cheggers recycling gags online shows how comedy's rulebook has changedOh, Cheggers. His career has taken some pretty unlikely turns (if not hairpin ben…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThe singer's life and death are recast as a Greek tragedy in a play that curiously neglects his influential musicOn 1 April, 1984, one day before his 45th birt…
Ronald Harwood's play about an ageing Shakespearian actor and his devoted dresser to be revived at Duke of York'sIt has been performed all over the world, was adapted into an Oscar-wining fi…
Royal Court, LondonStef Smith's powerfully alarmist play imagines the impact of a city's animal infestation on its citizensDystopia is a popular territory for young dramatists. Its latest in…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterTime runs backwards in Hattie Naylor's exceptional adaptation of the best-selling novel about women condemned to their own personal circles of hell in 1940s LondonI…
