Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, New YorkCush Jumbo performs Jospehine Baker with such passion that it comes to seem less like homage and more like invocationErnest Hemingway called Josephin…
In a recent event on the Brighton fringe, playwright Edward Bond discussed the horrors of being bombed, children's need for theatre " and why he's so angry about the 'Bollywoodisation' of In…
The Good Wife's star recalls how appearing in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Julius Caesar gave her the confidence to write her own playI often use male speeches in my warm-ups before going on …
Meanjin, Next Wave festival, Express Media and Force Majeure are just four of 62 arts companies which had their funding cut by Australia CouncilI was living in a wooden house in Bulli when t…
Curious Directive combine science and storytelling in Norwich, Katie Mitchell and Duncan Macmillan collaborate at the Barbican, and the world premiere of Edward Bond's Dea is in SuttonMade i…
Final show for the pachyderms comes after local government actions made touring with the animals difficult, as activists herald 'victory' for animal rightsAfter the last-ever circus to featu…
An exercise in misogyny " or a love story about a man liberating a woman? As the RSC stages The Taming of the Shrew, Maddy Costa asks actors and directors how they read the playA man acquire…
Diana Rigg played a memorable Medea " now her daughter Rachael Stirling is taking it on. She talks to Maddy Costa, while other actors recall their own immersion in one of theatre's toughest …
He has walked out of his own plays, been chased up the A1 by a director and thinks British drama is dead. Mark Lawson meets the magnificently irascible Edward BondFamous playwrights are trad…
Dylan Moran on drink, stand-up and self-confidenceIrish-born Dylan Moran, 35, is best known for his parts in the sitcom Black Books and the film Shaun of the Dead. He objects to journalists …
Regent's Park Open Air theatreAn elephant which saves a girl from the 2004 tsunami is the real draw " alongside orangutans and the wave itself " of Samuel Adamson's spectacleIf you hear elep…
The Olivier award-winning choreographer on working with Matthew Bourne, his creative process and his new production of Jekyll and Hyde at the Old VicDrew McOnie, 30, is a London-based choreo…
As one of France's most revered actors prepares a radical reworking of Phaedra for the British stage, she talks directors, daughters and doing more comedyIsabelle Huppert is known to have a …
Orange Tree, LondonGeorge Bernard Shaw's satirical attack on the divorce laws (and the medical profession) rather outstays its welcomeThe Philanderer, written in 1893, is a prescient play. B…
Sadler's Wells, LondonFace-pulling and slow-motion walking are no substitute for great choreography, which is a shame, because NDT2's dancers are brilliantSolo was choreographed by Hans van …
York Theatre RoyalThis adaptation of the novelist's prescient 1909 short story is impressively nimbleA woman looks into a screen showing the face of her faraway son. Electronic music ping po…
Before this tragic accident, the Canadian circus company had already suffered setbacks including layoffs of 400 staff and a string of poorly performing showsSaturday 29 June was supposed to …
Having captivated TV producer Michael Tuft with his storytelling at the Savoy's American Bar, the next day Richard Harris did a recording of WB Yeats poems for himAfter my boy died from meni…
Cumberbatch's turn as Shakespeare's scheming king is remarkable in a finale that also features fine performances from Judi Dench and Keeley HawesRichard III brings the BBC's Hollow Crown cyc…
Actor and theatre director best known for his many portrayals of Henry VIIIRegally tall and strong-featured, the Australian-born actor Keith Michell, who has died aged 88, made his reputatio…
Royal Court, LondonI spy a danger for the theatre in a new form of chic exclusivity. Because everyone wants to see Jez Butterworth's first new play since Jerusalem and because space is limit…
Comedian says death of manager at 53 also influenced decision, and that last date on Monsters tour will be final performanceBrian Logan on Lee Evans: who else can do what he does?Comedian Le…
Cast, DoncasterCathy Marston displays a novelist's touch in layering characters in her wonderfully choreographed show for Northern BalletEarly reviewers of Jane Eyre complained that Charlott…
To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday and to promote normalisation of nudity, an all-women group are performing his final play naked in Central ParkOn top of a hill in New York's Central Park …
Three decades after I met Kid Creole and the Coconuts while profiling them for NME, their musical Cherchez la Femme has finally reached the New York stageThe curtain rises. Anticipation alwa…