Ninagawa, who won acclaim for a samurai-style Macbeth at the Edinburgh festival, had been suffering from pneumoniaYukio Ninagawa, the world-renowned Japanese stage director known for his ada…
Star of West End show taking two- to four-week leave of absence due to stress and exhaustion, producers saySheridan Smith is to miss up to a month of performances as Fanny Brice in her West …
Some audience members seem to think their ticket guarantees an autograph too, but actors are well within their rights to miss the late-evening salutationsWhen the Duke of York's theatre floo…
She's made hair weaves from family photos and dresses out of cake. Now Selina Thompson has criss-crossed the Atlantic ocean on a freight ship to bash a giant rock of salt to bits " and it's …
Jury's Inn, BrightonPatrick Sandford's candid play about the abuse he suffered as a nine-year-old at the hands of a teacher shines much needed light on dark placesThe Brighton festival has s…
Wyndham's theatre, London Mark Strong, Nicola Walker and Phoebe Fox star in a menacing, meticulously conceived production. It's like watching a runaway train hurtle towards youThere have bee…
Brighton festivalThis disturbing piece of immersive theatre shines a light on the morality of police surveillance as audience members get to play undercover agentsAt what point, if any, is p…
As his play The Local Stigmatic is revived 50 years after its debut, the reclusive playwright looks back at the London underworld, the rise of celebrity culture and the debt he owes to Harol…
Museum Victoria in Australia takes on Canada's Chrysler Museum of Art in the finale of an international dance competition exclusively for museumsIf you made a Venn diagram of museum staffers…
Some cover their feet in glue, others slice at them with razor blades ... Emma John discovers what performing night after night does to a dancer's feetIt should have been the best day of Jen…
Beck theatre, HayesThe standup's PC's World seldom strays from xenophobia in a show full of poor jokes and weak puns' Never mind the broadcasts: TV doesn't make or break a standupPaul Chowdh…
Bowie's dance teacher recalls their first meeting, their early collaborations, and their marriage of theatre and rock'n'roll in the Ziggy Stardust stage showWe first met in 1966, probably la…
Lyttelton, LondonSuhayla El-Bushra brings Nikolai Erdman's 1928 social comedy into the modern day, but leaves its eccentricity and subversion behindThe National Theatre these days seems susp…
Lewis plays Antony and Ashton performs 'All the world's a stage' for our video series, which features Riz Ahmed, Laura Carmichael and Paterson JosephThe final set of films in the Guardian's …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jaques's lines on the seven ages of man from Ac…
Sadler's Wells, LondonLucy Guerin returns to Shakespeare's tragedy, Shobana Jeyasingh's Terra Incognita looks even better than before and Itzik Galili's A Linha Curva is a carnivalesque clos…
The historic Södra Teatern, with its magnificent open-air terrace, keeps the locals entertained on balmy summer evenings, says Sarah Dawn Finer, a presenter at the 2016 Eurovision in Stockh…
Emma Rice kicks off her Wonder season as the new artistic director of London's Globe theatre with a gender-swapping take on Shakespeare's much-loved comedy about the course of true love. Gua…
First staged a year after she killed herself, 4.48 Psychosis was called Kane's suicide note. As a new opera version opens, the team behind the play's Royal Court premiere look back " and her…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonSet in a post-Brexit dystopia, Melly Still's production is odd, excessive and over-stuffed with ideas but it's unafraid of emotion and boasts fi…
Here are 10 striking stage directions " can you identify the plays they're taken from?"Thunder and lightning. Enter Devils with covered dishes."The CrucibleWickedDoctor Faustus"Miriam begins…
Many of Shakespeare's lines are used in daily life " but do you know which plays feature these popular expressions?"Brevity is the soul of wit"Measure for MeasureHamletCymbeline"The be-all a…
Sometimes the description of a character in the stage directions says as much as lines of dialogue. Do you recognise these eight figures as described by the playwrights who created them?' Qu…
Gillian Anderson resumes her role as Blanche DuBois in a prequel to Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, inspired by the Young Vic theatre's acclaimed production in 2014. The film …
Are you a titan of the theatre or have the fates abandoned you? As the Almeida puts on a festival inspired by Dionysus, test your knowledge of Greek dramaIn Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Clytemnest…