Hundreds of comics, musicians and actors ready to entertain the city for a monthOne of the joys of living in Brighton (& Hove) is its annual festival. There is so much to see, hear and v…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonEmma Rice's debut is a brave adaptation of one of the bard's best-loved comedies"Rock the ground," declares a red neon sign high above the Globe stage where the ne…
Park theatre, LondonLondon 2012 is the setting for an exuberant update of The Beggar's Opera, featuring greedy mayors, pavement dissenters and an investment of lyrical witJohn Gay's The Begg…
Emma Rice kicks off her Wonder season as the new artistic director of London's Globe with a gender-swapping take on Shakespeare's much-loved comedy about the course of true love. Guardian ph…
Royal Opera House, LondonMcRae is superb as the Creature at the centre of Liam Scarlett's ambitious production, but surgery is needed to bring his strange story to the foreFor Liam Scarlett,…
Theatre Royal, YorkBryony Lavery's adaptation of the novel is more sacred than profane and, if the plot sometines drags, there are some fine performances along the wayAfter a longer-than-exp…
Chichester festival theatreBonneville precisely captures the recklessness and egotism of Dr Stockmann in a vigorous production of Ibsen's frighteningly topical playThis is the fifth major re…
Paul Watson's photo of a US soldier's corpse being desecrated by a mob in Somalia won him the Pultizer " but resulted in decades of trauma explored in a new play called The Body of an Americ…
Dancers, some wearing costumes based on the visual album, unleashed their inner Bey with fierce choreography at Broadway Bodies studio in New York CityLess than two weeks after the release o…
Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud, GuildfordPrivate passion coincides with the public chaos of 1947 in this tale of an affair featuring a first-rate castHoward Brenton's Drawing the Line dramatised…
Star Wars actor to play Georg Büchner's barber in theatre's new season, which also features Glenda Jackson as King LearJohn Boyega is temporarily hanging up his lightsaber and will, presuma…
Tron, GlasgowThe Hobbit author escaped Middle Earth to write a fairy tale about an amateur painter, portrayed by Richard Medrington in this mysterious solo pieceAt the start of his enchantin…
Gate, LondonEuripides's gory tale of murder is recast in four short plays that draw in Greek soldiers, Hollywood directors and the maid who found Agamemnon's corpseWas Agamemnon a decent man…
In his basement study in Dublin's gentrified southside, Tom Murphy is struggling to find a word, an idea, anything, to sum up the creative impulse behind his dark, inscrutable work. One corn…
Baker's heartbreaking Pulitzer-winner, is set in a doomed picturehouse but it's really about how nothing beats the live theatrical experienceSome months ago, a friend and I walked into the w…
Bridget Christie grapples with a Motörhead vibrator, David Baddiel tackles dementia, Todd Barry busts boredom " and Mr Swallow re-creates Houdini's daftest escapeSummer culture: Theatre | M…
He was bullied as a teen, trained until he bled, and triumphed. Now Smith bids farewell to his globally acclaimed career on the stage that launched itIn 1989 Damian Smith, then a 16-year-old…
The theater sensation of the decade scooped a record 16 Tony nominations. Here are 16 reasons Lin-Miranda Manuel's hip-hop musical broke new groundTony awards: Hamilton musical makes history…
The nominations for the Tony awards have been announced, with Hamilton up for a record 16. Here are a selection of the nominees Continue reading...
State attorney general Eric Schneiderman requested that websites verify that ticket resellers are licensed after $2.76m settlement with alleged scammersOn the day Hamilton, Broadway's imposs…
With 16 Tony nominations, a hit soundtrack album and tickets like gold dust, the hip-hop history show is breaking records all round'Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?" asks the cast …
With 16 nominations, Hamilton leads the contenders for this year's Tony awards. See who's in the runningEclipsed Continue reading...
Lin-Manuel Miranda's show dominates the nominees for the 70th Tonys, while Arthur Miller productions compete for best revivalHamilton, the genre-blending musical phenomenon which tells the s…
Leading actors perform key Shakespeare speeches from Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear and As You Like It in our video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the great playwr…
Secret location, London This novel and surprising mystery, which unravels in a former rug factory, casts theatregoers as police officers"Crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot," qu…