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He is an unlikely comedian who avoids jokes about sex and politics but is a keen observer of northern life in the Alan Bennett mould. His DVD is the fastest selling title of the year. It is …
Part two of the BBC's Wars of the Roses series was a visual treat led by a brooding Benedict Cumberbatch, but poignancy was among the script's many casualtiesLast week's opening episode of t…
Duke of York's, London The Game of Thrones actor gives us a sense of the scholar's flailing despair but Jamie Lloyd's excessive version of the tragedy comes with a trite messageChristopher M…
I cry a lot. Especially on planes. What is that about? On a plane, I'll be in floods at The Good Dinosaur.Raised in London, David Baddiel, devised the Fantasy Football League television show…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's resurrected musical features terrific dancing and some truly hideous moggiesThere is nothing subdued and nothing rough about Cats. Nor is there much that looks theatric…
How did the English become white? Gary Taylor finds the answer in a piece of 17th-century street theatreLike any other word, "white" - in the modern, racial sense - was invented. And it is p…
Tron, GlasgowOscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett make unlikely appearances as a Protestant radical revisits the doomed 1798 rebellion"Haven't we always been on the stage in our own eyes?" asks He…
London PalladiumA strong cast led by the former Pussycat Doll bring impressive verve to the song and dance spectacular, but the question remains whether the jukebox musical is Andrew Lloyd W…
You've probably been in a pub with a noisy expert and felt the need to say you like a playwright you don't. That's exactly what stops us engaging with theatreThe new artistic director of the…
This is England star Vicky McClure is possessed by evil in this nightmarish manga take on Macbeth, the fourth of the British Council's films for Shakespeare Lives 2016, a global programme ce…
With its swearing and its baby-stoning, Saved shocked Britain in 1965. Will the play do so again? Maddy Costa talks to the original cast " and asks Edward Bond why he finally allowed a reviv…
Jane Eyre | Fagin's Twist | Nederlands Dans Theater 2 Cathy Marston's new work extracts the radical and romantic heart from the Charlotte Brontë classic for Northern Ballet, with a score …
O No! | King Lear | Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour | The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom If you have an aversion to audience participation and theatre about the…
From Would I Lie To You? to the Kappa symbol, the comedian reveals the things she finds funniestI would probably choose Tony Law destroying a passive-aggressive heckler by pretending that th…
Composer behind famous musical says singer made him look foolish by pulling out of Broadway show to join the X FactorAndrew Lloyd Webber has said he has been made to look "an absolute twot" …
Arts Educational, LondonA 1920 private adoption home farms poor children out to rich couples in this fluent production by Kate Sason and a talented student castAs we know from Nell Gwynn and…
In Cyprus Avenue, I watched aghast as a Protestant attacked his own baby. But I left with a new understanding of sectarianism. So why did the litany of horrors in Sarah Kane's Cleansed just …
Rumours of a West End production have been around for some time, but Australia and other parts of Europe have now appeared on the musical's agendaNon-stateside musical fans rejoice: accordin…
Censorship battles once focused on books, but today the performing arts are under attack, especially works that mix drama and documentary. David Edgar argues that free speech must be preserv…
What makes an actor truly great? The actor's job is to bring a scripted character to life. RADA's Dee Cannon outlines 10 questions that must be addressed in order to create a fully-realised …
The rape allegations against Cosby didn't stick until Hannibal Buress made the accusation on stage. Sometimes comedians are able to say what others can'tJudging by the story of the National …
As the original production of My Fair Lady is painstakingly reproduced, we should be challenging outdated theatre " not replicating itIn recent years, Opera Australia has begun programming m…
Young Vic, LondonArthur Miller's 1955 Brooklyn drama is stripped right back to showcase rich behavioural accuracy and high-quality performances' Monroe and Miller's sensational year " in pic…
Amy Schumer's sketch comedy show tackles gun control and in New York Janeane Garofalo joins other comedians in benefit show to raise awarenessIncongruous as it seems, comedy and the campaign…
Ahead of her new work, which is based on a profound real-life tragedy, the sought-after choreographer discusses dancing with William Forysthe, motherhood and why there are so few women at th…
