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Don Quijote | Show Boat | With A Little Bit Of Luck | Folk | Constellation Street | Another World: Losing Our Children To Islamic StatePart of HOME's ongoing Spanish and Latin American festi…
The actor says The Revisionist, his play about a self-involved novelist, is an exercise in introspection and he doesn't care for critics of Batman v SupermanThe third week of March must have…
Watford Palace theatreThe team behind Britain's Got Bhangra can't smooth over the thorny issue of arranged marriages with song and dance in this musical based on a 12th-century forerunner of…
Guantánamo and the 2011 UK riots are subjects on which director Nicolas Kent and novelist Gillian Slovo have collaborated. But what was it like to work on their most provocative challenge…
Philip Hensher picks 10 key moments that opened the door to homosexual cultureIs Albertine really Alfred Agostinelli? Impossible to answer, and Proust, if the secrecy of his reported loves r…
For years gay people were tolerated in the arts " and were then accused of taking over. Gregory Woods traces the networks of writers, artists, intellectuals and film stars who transformed 20…
With her Olivier-winning performance in People, Places and Things, Denise Gough played a role that is all too rare for women " one where she explores what it is to be human, rather than fema…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterDon Warrington cuts a powerful and tyrannic Lear, amid a superb cast and suggestions of a forgotten history of black BritainWas there ever a black king during the d…
Fevered Sleep's show features men dancing tenderly with young girls. Its creators explain how they convinced parents it wasn't creepy, but a celebration of a relationship tainted by the medi…
Old Vic, LondonFollowing the current trend of not treating Harold Pinter with pause-ridden reverence, Matthew Warchus transforms the writer's first big hit into a wild comedy of deluded misf…
It's full of errors, has scribbles in the margins and isn't even complete. But imagine a world without Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar or Macbeth and you'll understand why a copy of the First F…
Initiatives like Playing Up and Haphazard are turning children into artists, and at a time of political apathy and risk aversion, they can also teach adults to playMost people interested in …
The news that actor Daniel Hoevels accidentally slit his own throat on stage in Austria during a performance of Mary Stuart will send a shiver of empathy mixed with schadenfreude through the…
Rare book containing 36 plays published in 1623 had been in library at Mount Stuart on Isle of Bute for more than 100 years A copy of Shakespeare's first folio " a book containing 36 of his …
Auckland headmaster says prop razor was checked 'many, many times' and he has no idea how 16-year-olds were hurtA New Zealand school production of Sweeney Todd was called off on opening nigh…
Barbican, LondonThere are, of course, three types of people: those who can count and those who can't. As I'm firmly in the latter camp, Complicité's A Disappearing Number - returning to the…
Set designer responsible for the look of many memorable theatre and opera productionsJohn Gunter, who has died aged 77, nine years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, was respons…
Thomas Adès's opera of Exterminating Angel among new season highlights, as well as Anna Netrebko tackling Norma and Jonas Kaufmann singing OtelloAn opera based on Buñuel's surreal film w…
Crystal Pite becomes the first woman to create work for the Royal Ballet since 1999 " alongside new productions by Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Javier de Frutos. It's another encouragin…
Royal and Derngate, Northampton Michael Webster shifts the focus of Shakespeare's monumental royal drama towards the younger generation, in a clear and pacy productionIt's less of a leap tha…
Royal Court, LondonCharacters hear strange voices and time itself starts to dissolve in Alistair McDowall's new play, set in a research base on PlutoAlistair McDowall has quickly built a rep…
2016 festival lineup includes The Good Wife actor, who last graced EIF in The Bacchae in 2007, presenting Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs Alan Cumming will this summer make a return to the Ed…
Orange Tree, RichmondInspired by a promise about climate change to a four-year-old girl, Jonny & the Baptists add some moral ballast to their usual gags and gigglesome wordplayA previous…
Rumours of a West End production have been around for some time, but this is the first time Australia and Europe have appeared on the musical's agendaNon-stateside musical fans rejoice: acco…
At this year's Melbourne Comedy Festival, Tom Ballard is performing a comedy lecture about the history, cost and future of Australia and 'border protection'When it comes to Australia's treat…
