Watford Palace theatreDiane Samuels' play, set in an East End tailor's, about four characters in search of an identity, produces some fascinating arguments around feminismDiane Samuels, famo…
Russell Kane: Right Man, Wrong Age | Sarah Kendall: A Day In October | Ed Aczel: The Random Flapping Of A Butterfly's WingsAgeing can feel like a curse to many of us, but it must be especial…
The Maids | A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play For The Nation | The Destroyed Room | Beyond The Fence | Chip Shop Chips | Right NowThree women who have made a big impact on TV line up for the…
De Nada Dance Theatre: Ham & Passion | TerraAfter setting up DeNada Dance Theatre in 2012, Spanish choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra fast-forwarded his way to a National Dance awards nomi…
Pontio, BangorThis epic adaptation of T Rowland Hughes's tale of the Penrhyn Quarry strike shows that the fight against oppression speaks with a common tongueThe University of Bangor owes it…
Helen Hayes Theater, New YorkThe pressures of family, work and keeping a roof over one's head simmer slowly in this superbly acted play about a beleagered family meeting in a tumbledown apar…
Director who worked with Tom Stoppard and was associate to Peter Hall at the National TheatreIn a long and illustrious career, the stage director Peter Wood, who has died aged 90, etched his…
Traverse, EdinburghFrom Anton Lachky's cartoonish Dreamers to Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar's sensual Process Day, this talented company puts on a powerful performance Chalking up 30 years, this…
Abbey, DublinStephen Rea is riveting as a troubled Ulster loyalist whose hatred of 'the Fenians' drives him to breakdown in this compelling Irish playThe therapist in David Ireland's latest …
After helping to put on performances in the Jungle refugee camp, I've seen how theatre can become a shelter, literal and emotional. With the camp now under threat, British and French authori…
HG Wells' prose is the hero of Jeff Wayne's full-blown musical revival, which has enough bombast to drown out any ringtones in the audienceThere was always an overlap between the concept dou…
O2, LondonWhen Jeff Wayne released his The War of the Worlds album in 1978, the winds of fashion were not behind him. In a musical era defined by post-punk's minimalism and deconstructionism…
From Going Solo's deserts, through the Fantastical forests of Mr Fox to Matilda's magic library, this walk through the author's worlds comes to life with a stutterBefore we enter The Wonderc…
Australian schoolgirl Stephanie Kurlow's vision to become the world's first hijab-wearing ballerina receives a boost from the former Swedish tennis player Björn Borg as her online crowd-fun…
Fracked! Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word, by Alistair Beaton, to debut as part of final season at Chichester Festival theatreAnne Reid and James Bolam are to star as unlikely anti-fracking c…
How does the fate of a student executed in 1697 fuel the freedom of speech debate today? Simon Armitage and Told By An Idiot talk about their new drama exploring the life and death of Thomas…
Taken from interviews with residents of America's poorest city, the Pulitzer-winning playwright's Sweat has new resonance in the era of Trump and SandersWhen playwright Lynn Nottage began wo…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonPeter Whelan's compassionate, filigree drama tells the story of the Bard's scion Susanna, seeking life's poetry in puritan England, only to be accused of adult…
Some thrilling footwork and extraordinary singing in Sara Baras's flamenco homage isn't enough to lift this bland production from its classic formatSo much of Sara Baras's dancing is all abo…
Barbican, LondonInspired by US photographer Loren McIntyre's experiences with Brazilian rainforest tribes, this transporting Complicite show is a triumph of sound designSimon McBurney is an …
Are you Fawlty, Edina, Partridge or Brent? In his new play Monster Raving Loony, James Graham examines what 70 years of comedy reveal about ourselves " through the story of Screaming Lord Su…
Titus Andronicus, the least known but the most notorious play in the Shakespearean canon, was given performance to-night for the first time in Stratford-on-Avon's history. It Is a magnificen…
Former cabaret star will play Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's GlobeEmma Rice's appointment at Shakespeare's Globe was always going to shake things up so her first piece…
Edinburgh Festival theatreRona Munro's day-long reimagining of 15th-century royal Scotland shows a nation determined to do things on its own terms Related: The lost kings of Scotland There's…
Vaudeville, LondonRobert Askins's Broadway hit about a Bible belt teenager in thrall to a foul-mouthed puppet is merely crudeAmerican religious fervour inevitably breeds a reaction. Although…