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Gender and racial diversity is growing in UK theatres " but disabled creatives are being left behind. We have to shift away from patronising box-tickingOver the last few months, it has felt …
Patricia Routledge: 'I kept bashing into doors and they kept bashing into me. I got through two bottles of arnica in rehearsals alone'The idea came to me in 1970. I'd written a series of sho…
Drama theatre, Sydney Opera HouseStarring Ryan Corr and Georgia Flood for the Sydney Theatre Company, Stoppard's classic fails to deliver more than the sum of its partsA quick flick through …
Exploring Australian political corruption in Australia, The Blind Giant is Dancing stars the Orange is the New Black actor opposite her husband. 'We just have to try and be careful,' Stone s…
Yvonne Rainer and her works are uncompromising, challenging and highly influential. But she won't be guesting on X FactorAn artist who is anti-art, an activist who is also an aesthete, Yvonn…
Tate Modern, London From a femmed-up Marcel Duchamp to Joseph Beuys in a fisherman's vest, there is plenty of humour in this survey show of artists acting up for the lens " but it's the thea…
Schaubühne, BerlinSimon McBurney's production, based on Stefan Zweig's 1938 novel, brings past and present together in a desperate vision of failed empire Related: Rereading: Beware of Pity…
The Yard, LondonCressida Brown's return to the venue of her 2006 verbatim piece, Home, is insightful, but has a whiff of cultural tourismTen years ago, Cressida Brown and Offstage Theatre ma…
Royal Opera House, LondonThis Christopher Wheeldon programme includes the premiere of one-act ballet Strapless, whose scandalous heroine Madam X is all attitude and frocks Christopher Wheeld…
Composer Claire van Kampen on staging Shakespeare's late play with her husband Mark Rylance " and how music is his thumbprint as a playwrightThe first time I was involved with a production o…
Katie Mitchell directs Sarah Kane, Marianne Elliott's staging of Husbands and Sons arrives in Manchester, and Jamie Lloyd revives The MaidsTorben Betts's adaptation of the gangland classic G…
Octagon, BoltonWith its parade of eccentrics, this is a riotous follow-up to Jim Cartwright's 1989 homage to the traditional northern boozerJim Cartwright's homage to a traditional northern …
One Twitter feed lays bare the abysmal way women are described in film scripts. This relentless cultural messaging shapes female identityIt seems as if you can't swing a thinkpiece lately wi…
Almeida, London Its setting in rural England is problematic, but Robert Icke's modernised version of Chekhov's masterpiece is rich in psychological detailRobert Icke seems on a personal miss…
Theatre Royal, PlymouthThe extraordinary life of Screaming Lord Sutch told through music, comedy and drama sketches is highly entertaining " though ultimately a little too fragmentedScreamin…
Palais Garnier, ParisWith the mood still raw after his resignation from Paris Opera Ballet, Benjamin Millepied presents a provocative triple billOpening the day after Benjamin Millepied's sh…
Young Vic, LondonPlatitudes eclipse some fine performances in Peter Brook's postscript to his epic MahabharataBattlefield is unmistakably Peter Brook's work: as clear as a signature. It feel…
Hampstead theatre, LondonA great cast fail to connect in Edward Hall's stagey production of a Pulitzer-winning study of griefIn 2010, Rabbit Hole was made into a slick but touching film, sta…
Temporary theatre at the National theatre, LondonSophie Melville is phenomenal as a struggling young woman who finds love… brieflyAt the National's Temporary theatre, a girl walks on to a …
With its claustrophobic style and dark subject matter, could the Baileys-winning smash A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing ever succeed as theatre? Sarah Crompton discovers a show that redefines '…
My most treasured possession? Only my living relatives. I am not a person of thingsBorn in Brooklyn, New York, Dreyfuss, 68, became a film star in the 70s with American Graffiti, Jaws, …
Apollo, LondonJessica Swale's play about the orange-seller turned actor cannily mixes Carry On gags with an explicitly feminist messageIt is tricky to transfer a play from the noisily intera…
Set designer Stephen Curtis says the best of his work supports the actors and solves problems, but warns in a new essay on his work that it's also easy to be glib and rely on old tricks rath…
In her RSC version of Marlowe's satanic drama, Maria Aberg bins the jokes, channels Tom Waits and makes the leads strike matches to see who plays whoIn your version of Christopher Marlowe's …
Star Cross'd is the second in the British Council's series of films for Shakespeare Lives 2016, a global programme celebrating William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death. Poet…
