Why do so many venues still find it hard to open doors to disabled artists and audiences? At a Guardian Live event in Wolverhampton, Lyn Gardner and a panel discuss the opportunities and obs…
Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton, leads the contenders for this year's Olivier awards " here are the nominees in full Continue reading...
Leading actors perform key Shakespeare speeches in videos that capture the tragedy, comedy, romance and magic of his playsWatch the first six films in the series Continue reading...
Join us at 7.30pm GMT on Tuesday 1 March for a live stream of The Encounter, Complicite and Simon McBurney's stunning show about a mind-blowing journey into the Amazon. The Encounter has sol…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Lumley speaks Viola's soliloquy from Twelfth Night, Act II,…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Camille O'Sullivan plays Constance in King John, Act III, Scene 4.…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth's lines from Act II, Scene 1. As Macbet…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Threlfall speaks Prospero's lines from The Tempest, Act IV, …
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Sacha Dhawan delivers an edited version of Parolles's lines from t…
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Samuel West speaks Henry V's soliloquy from Act IV, Scene 1. On th…
First produced at the Royal Court earlier this month, Caryl Churchill's play for Gaza has divided critics and audiences. The Guardian's Michael Billington called it a 'heartfelt lamentation'…
Forced Entertainment do Shakespeare, Pixie Lott is Holly Golightly, and Analogue and Theatre Ad Infinitum both have new workJack Thorne and Graeae's The Solid Life of Sugar Water hits the NT…
Joanna Lumley plays Viola, David Threlfall is Prospero and Daniel Mays sees a dagger before him in our latest set of videos to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death Related: S…
The Melbourne comedian who is definitely not a host on The Project on what unites extremist Muslims and Australian patriots Melbourne comedian Nazeem Hussain tells me he's wearing his one an…
Veteran stage and screen actor best known for playing the ranting, drunken Father Jack in the Channel 4 television comedy Father TedThe actor Frank Kelly was best known as Father Jack Hacket…
Arts theatre, LondonThis software-generated Greenham Common musical is risibly stereotypical but pleasant as a milky drinkPlenty of musicals written by humans sound as if they have been comp…
Tron, GlasgowVanishing Point's exploration of how we relate to images of distress " as engaged observers or callous voyeurs " is compelling and daringYou'll have had the same conversation yo…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonKathryn Hunter plays the lovelorn French nobleman in this all-female production, but nothing is gained by the gender swapWhat is the point of an all-female Cyrano …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe Globe director's farewell production casts its spell in the candlelit space that crowns his time thereDominic Dromgoole says goodbye to the Globe with the …
Liverpool PlayhouseThe fascinating story of Thomas Aikenhead " the last person in Britain to be executed for blasphemy " is marred by a mix of theatrical stylesYoung Thomas Aikenhead was the…
Dorfman, LondonIt may be too gruesome much for some, but Sarah Kane's 1998 horror show feels depleted in Katie Mitchell's protracted revivalTheatres love people walking out. Sometimes it see…
Wilton's Music Hall; Greenwich Dance, LondonBlood and terror saturate Mark Bruce's vivid Odyssey. And take a bow, Tara d'ArquianMark Bruce is one of the most consistently thought-provoking c…
Research reveals 73% of performers in British theatre and film are from middle-classA major academic study released to the Observer this weekend reveals the extent to which actors from relat…
Sarah Kane's ultra-violent Cleansed left them reeling in the stalls at the National Theatre last week. Was that a rare exception on an otherwise tame British stage?Has British theatre shied …
A promenade version of the Jacobean play cast the Game of Thrones star as the Prince of Tyre and brought the actors shoulder to shoulder with the audienceBefore I did Pericles with the Royal…