Music Box Theatre, New York This show about the creation of the first jazz musical manages to be both entertaining and informative " but unfortunately not at the same timeIf Broadway has the…
Luke Wright delivers acclaimed piece What I Learned From Johnny Bevan … to an audience of only two MPs In the depths of the Palace of Westminster, beneath chandeliers and in front of an im…
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonA corpse falling from the sky triggers a fragmented series of stories in a show combining sound and movement to good effectWe are all connected, but often don't r…
Citizens theatre, GlasgowThis claustrophobic three-hander can be electrifying but Tam Dean Burn's erratic Captain upsets the balance of a delicately calibrated conflictThe first part of Augu…
Donmar Warehouse, London Payne's utterly relatable characters make this play about scientific progress an exploration of the very human concepts of love, identity, faith and lossNick Payne's…
Comic and actor David Cross talks the unsurprising rise of Donald Trump, the stupidity of George W Bush " and playing some of the dumbest characters ever written for TVDavid Cross doesn't ho…
For three years, a bright red box on the South Bank has hosted exciting shows. The National must retain its spirit if it is to truly live up to its nameThe National Theatre's Temporary Space…
28 April 1958: Dancers on board a ship on the Mersey compete to be crowned Jive King Liverpool, SaturdayBeyond the gangway was a private world, where the adult stranger was likely to suffer …
Havana's hottest dance show goes from mambo to salsa to machete-spinning - in just a few seconds. Laura Barnett meets the companyIn a velvet-plush theatre in a once-affluent district of Hava…
American Airlines Theater, New YorkJessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Shannon are all superb as the family tearing one another apart in a dark production of Eugene O'Neill's finest pla…
Ron Mueck's art has been called both big and clever. In fact, says Jonathan Jones it's blank, empty, brainless - and upstaged by several other shows in EdinburghI felt a wave of nausea when …
They were stars in the landmark West End play and many have gone on to glittering careers in Hollywood and TV, including the latest Doctor Who, Matt Smith. David Smith reports on an extraord…
Shakespeare's Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III are recast as modern political leaders in Kings of War by the celebrated theatre company Toneelgroep Amsterdam. This bold and innovative four-…
Comedian's stage show will bring back some of her best-known characters, including Lauren 'Am I bovvered?' Cooper, for 21-date UK tour She was last seen on a fatal kayaking trip in 2007 and …
Minerva, ChichesterPatricia Hodge is superb as a madcap aunt, whisking her buttoned-up nephew on a world tour, in a perfectly pleasant show that lacks the novel's ambiguitiesGraham Greene's …
Gemma Bodinetz's plans for a multi-skilled, community-based company with a 50:50 gender split is a bold new vision of the theatre's 70s rep modelThe news that Liverpool Everyman plans to tri…
Richmond theatreBruce Norris's incendiary and excruciatingly funny play, which explores racial tensions and gentrification, gets a finely acted revivalIn Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Rai…
Broadhurst Theatre, New YorkThis adaptation of the Natalie Babbitt book has flaws " the songs are repetitive and the set is chaotic " but the show's spirit is ultimately touchingThe question…
Through intelligent handling of its racial themes, Daniel Evans's revival has steered this much-loved 1927 show smoothly into the modern ageWhat is it about Show Boat? Why is it that a music…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghMark Thomson's psychologically rich production of the epic has mortals ferociously slugging it out while the gods recline in deckchairs The great thing about the Greek…
A host of Tracy Turnblads flocked to New York and shivered on the streets waiting in line overnight for a shot at life-changing fame in the latest live musicalIt's 8am on a Sunday and the ai…
Birmingham Rep Tom Wells's knack for imbuing his characters with warmth and dignity lights up this play about three oddballs united by an ambitious ventureThe most significant writer to emer…
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…
Dominion Theatre, LondonThe much trumpeted Queen musical has arrived, and it would be hard to imagine a less appropriate vehicle for the band's music - far less for the anti-corporate mes sa…
As a new production of We Will Rock You opens in Sydney, the writer and director sounds off about Donald Trump and the death of live music"Actually I think I know pretty much everything Dona…