After early success writing for the National Theatre and for Alan Partridge, Marber's career stalled. As he returns with two plays, he talks about how Lewes FC, Turgenev and an escape from c…
Playwright and television screenwriter best known for The Anniversary, which was turned into a 1968 film starring Bette DavisThe playwright and television screenwriter Bill MacIlwraith, who …
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonShannon Yee's clever and moving story of her rocky road to recovery from a rare infection places the audience right in the wardIn 2008, the playwright Shannon Ye…
Alan Partridge, Closer, an Oscar nomination … then nothing. As his Strindberg update goes on tour, the writer talks about Coogan, creativity and his days as a posh standupIt's lunchtime in…
Signature Theater, New YorkQuiara AlegrÃa Hudes' new play, which shares a director with Hamilton, has a fierce compassion for its characters and an ardent love for New York's diversityIn …
The 1916 Irish rebellion against British rule that in six days left 485 people dead is the cue for a festival of Irish arts and culture in WashingtonWhile on the election campaign trail for …
She may have been pipped to the Mercury prize, but her latest collection is a winnerAt the heart of Kate Tempest's latest work is a captivating dichotomy. On the one hand, she is the soul of…
Leicester's victorious tour bus will be greeted by jubilant football fans as it passes the Curve theatre, which has also earned the pride and passion of locals"Why can't theatre be more like…
Japanese theatre director who harmonised the traditions of east and west in his productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen and EuripidesYukio Ninagawa, who has died aged 80, was a great Japanese thea…
His 1970 RSC production of Shakespeare's play featured circus trapezes, stilts and plate-spinning " and changed theatre history for good. In an extract from his new book, Peter Brook explain…
When the director re-opened a dilapidated Parisian theatre with an international Shakespeare production, the applause shook the buildingKing Lear is the supreme achievement of the world's th…
Former dancer Kevin O'Hare plans to bring together the 'most talented artists of the 21st century'After a worldwide search to fill one of the most coveted jobs in dance " replacing the Royal…
A show featuring three and a half tonnes of coal opens in Cardiff, Katie Mitchell frees Ophelia from Hamlet at the Royal Court, and Daniel Evans makes his directorial swansong in SheffieldWi…
Artistic directors of major theatre companies pen open letter saying government funding cuts represent an 'unprecedented assault' on the artsThe artistic directors of Australia's major theat…
Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New YorkHarvey Weinstein has spent millions trying to make a film about Peter Pan's author fly on stage " but though the child stars shine, the music is leadenDo you b…
For three decades she was Britain's everywoman, celebrating the ordinary and finding comedy in our daily chores. But when her husband walked out, she was stopped in her tracks. Now, she's ba…
His riotous story of two buddies on a wine-and-women odyssey intoxicated the world. As Sideways hits the stage, Rex Pickett recalls how he went from debt-ridden divorcee to the toast of Holl…
From playing Cyrano at school to Hamlet at the National, the star of the Young Vic's The Trial talks about the productions that shaped his career I must have been about seven or eight when I…
The actor on getting his voice in shape for The Threepenny Opera, growing up with showbiz parents, and his almost-career as a goalkeeper…You're playing Macheath in a new production of The …
The Tricycle's artistic director on the theatre's £5.5m makeover, working with asylum seekers " and not casting Adrian Lester as a womanBorn in Sheffield to Sri Lankan Tamil parents in 19…
The comedian soon returns to our screens in a follow-up to the highly praised Getting On. But first, she answers questions from our readers and celebrity fans'My mum is always pestering me t…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThere is something of the Edinburgh fringe about this RSC production of one of Shakespeare's most complex playsWhat have we left of Shakespeare?…
Theatre Royal, BrightonSpymonkey clown around in an inventive production that turns Shakespeare's complete works into a fabulous bloodbathThe Complete Deaths is a new show created by the clo…
Theatre Royal, NewcastleDespite contemporary costumes and choreography, Scottish Ballet's Swan Lake remains stuck in the 19th centuryIn his new version of Swan Lake for Scottish Ballet, Davi…
Royal Court, LondonAbout half a mile down from the Little Chef on the A14, a giant chats about building Stonehenge. In a Wiltshire glade at dawn, teenage girls tumble bug-eyed and doped-up f…