Cort Theatre, New YorkDespite its impressive cast and soundtrack, Steve Martin's tale of an editor in the American south who takes a young writer under her wing lacks Broadway lustreFinally,…
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonBy keeping its audience's eyes covered, this vivid production heightens the wistful evocation and graveyard wit of Samuel Beckett's long-ignored piece Samuel Becke…
The storyline is contrived around a string of pop hits in this homage to the photo-stories and problem pages of the classic teenage girls' magazine Aimed at a largely female audience with o…
Elsewhere in comedy this week: John Cleese targets BBC comedy chiefs, Tina Fey resurrects her Sarah Palin impression and Peter Kay's new sitcom gears up for an iPlayer premiereReading this o…
London's powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre's key productions through extracts from the Guardian and Observer archive, alon…
The director, who has brought Bret Easton Ellis's novel to Broadway, explains why he's drawn to the dark stories of Patrick Bateman, Faustus and Macbeth"I am drawn to theatre as an art form …
Royal Opera House, LondonThe acting is superb and the dancing has real authority in Peter Wright's production which opens up dramatic opportunities for the whole castLike every classic of th…
Tron, GlasgowA banker's wife, a journalist, a singer and a civil servant secure the last boat leaving the UK in a play that never plots a course through its political ideasThe waters are cho…
Maza decries the Australian novel's stage adaptation for playing on a tired trope of 'the real Aboriginals died out' Indigenous Australian performer and director Rachael Maza has made a stro…
Australian theatre company responds to Cleese accusation it ripped off his television series with a dinner theatre show called Faulty TowersThe Australian theatre company accused by John Cle…
In the 1980s, the Everyman youth theatre created work that reflected Merseyside's stories and struggles. It was fun, free and precious. Now, we're creating new forms of drama to help the nex…
Main aim of first white paper on culture in more than 50 years is to improve access for people of all backgrounds, Ed Vaizey saysAny arts organisation that receives public money will have to…
The Yard, LondonDeborah Pearson's playful show is a serious examination of racism and the inadequacies of liberalismA theatre is a public space. So is a park. In Deborah Pearson's play about…
Fielding found mainstream fame in the UK as part of surrealist duo The Mighty Boosh, but didn't crack the US. Will he find a home with Tim and Eric fans?Noel Fielding is exhausted and he's o…
Secret shows, street protests, satire … performance has long been connected to political causes. But does it have mass impact beyond a grassroots level?How can the arts effect social chang…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon With this heartening production, director Simon Godwin and a largely black ensemble make you feel like you are seeing the play anewThere is som…
Moving The Maids from France to the US adds a powerful racial subtext to Genet's original, while Anouilh's Welcome Home, Captain Fox! fares less well when set in America. Not all plays benef…
An Coimisiún le Rincà Gaelacha, the world's premier Irish dance organisation, hosts the 46th annual world Irish dancing championships at the Glasgow Royal concert hall. Guardian photoj…
Actor, playwright and shell artist famous as radio's Paul TempleThe actor Peter Coke, who has died aged 95, will be remembered for having brought his firm delivery and precise diction to the…
Actor slams Interactive Theatre International's 'utterly shameless' stage show inspired by his TV series after learning of its 'astonishing financial success'John Cleese is considering pursu…
The Chewbacca obsessive who built a giant Millennium Falcon, the Harry Potter devotee who tattooed herself with a letter from JK Rowling, the Madonna fan who cherishes one of her Kabbalah wa…
St Peter's Seminary, KilmahewThe artistic renewal of a derelict Scottish architectural gem starts with an otherwordly piece by NVA that delves into its graffiti-strewn cornersThe way the bui…
The great Mexican painter is the subject of one of three new works choreographed by women for She Said at Sadler's Wells. Its creators explain their impressionistic approach to the artist's …
Politics is fertile ground for comics, but there are pitfalls to jumping on particular bandwagons " not least when it questions their loyalty to the punchlineNot that long ago, Donald Trump …
Actor Sir Ian McKellen, who has appeared as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings and Magneto in the X-Men series, as well as taking numerous Shakespearean roles, talks to Owen Jones about his ga…