The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonOliver Ryan and Sandy Grierson share the roles of the doctor and the demon in Maria Aberg's darkly inventive, richly psychological productionIt is fascinating to…
Judd Apatow's Love hits Netflix, Fiennes and Swinton make A Bigger Splash, and artists strike a pose at the Tate Modern; here are this week's cultural highlights ON DEMANDLove Continue readi…
Husbands & Sons | The War Of The Worlds | Hand To God | Betrayal | Chwalfa | HamletDH Lawrence's early plays A Collier's Friday Night, The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd and The Daughter-In-Law…
Richard Herring: Happy Now? | Lolly Adefope | Adam Hills: Clown HeartThe default position for a stand-up comedian is that of a surly complainer: from Billy Connolly to Josh Widdicombe, gripi…
Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Dream & A Month In The Country | Flamenco Festival LondonBirmingham Royal Ballet joins in 2016's Shakespeare celebrations with seven Bard-inspired ballets th…
Sadler's Wells, LondonInstead of raging battles of the sexes, the men are gallant and the women dance for sheer pleasure in the choreographer's final piece, Como el Musguito … There's no m…
He unleashed a fierce 1984 and brought Aeschylus bang up to date. Now the Almeida's wunderkind is stripping back a Russian classic with actor Paul RhysSay what you like about his productions…
Minchin says his song about the cardinal, who is due to give evidence to a royal commission about child sex abuse that occurred within his parishes, is also about homeTim Minchin has written…
Lydia R Diamond's play, set during Barack Obama's 2008 victory, plays with ideas of race and academia but fails to join the dots in this unrooted dramaHas a play ever boasted a cast of chara…
Playhouse, LondonThe actor best known as Chandler Bing returns to the London stage with a self-written confessional drama that feels like an extended sitcomMatthew Perry is a likable actor w…
Bill Gaskill had a talent for friendship. While he was always honest and unsentimental, he was also kind, thoughtful, funny and good company. I first met him as an undergraduate at Oxford (w…
Vault festival, LondonDesiree Burch invites the audience to rebut racist cliches and face up to centuries of injustice in a show that loses some impact due to its scattershot approachThe US …
Theatre Royal, Plymouth James Graham rifles through period-comedy vignettes in this chaotic retelling of the life of the rocker turned serial parliamentary hopefulJames Graham deserves an ho…
French ballerina noted for her pure classical technique and the musicality she brought to her rolesThe ballerina Violette Verdy, who has died aged 82 after a stroke, will be vividly remember…
When photographer Loren McIntyre travelled to the Javari valley it overturned everything he knew about the world. I'm retelling his journey with a microphone " you listen with headphonesComp…
Liverpool EverymanFlaubert's dry comic observations are replaced with full-on slapstick in a show that inserts dinosaur costumes and some awkward metatheatrical banter Julian Barnes describe…
Nottingham PlayhouseKefi Chadwick's play about an undercover police officer infiltrating a protest group is a powerful exploration of the corrosiveness of informingThe case of police spies f…
Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network working on stage version of Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning novel about racial prejudice Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird is he…
Soho theatre, LondonThis confessional one-woman show offers increasingly uneasy laughs as the artist reveals more and yet less of herself The title of Ursula Martinez's latest show is both a…
The film's screenwriter and songwriters have signed up to adapt the Disney sensation, with a TV special also announced for 2017After $1.2bn in ticket sales and truckloads of DVDs " as well a…
Caryl Churchill's new play gets the cast singing Da Doo Ron Ron and imagines apocalyptic horror. Don't try to work it all out with your head, says actor Linda Bassett, 'just listen, let it h…
Debut plays can be instant classics and false starts. From Ibsen's Catilina to Shaffer's Five Finger Exercise, they often contain thrilling hints of where a dramatist is headingImagine that …
There's no such thing as an easy ride with Bartabas. His horses once performed Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Now they're stamping into Sadler's Wells. We meet the horse whisperer at his eccen…
With a cast of four horses and a donkey, trainer and impresario Bartabas creates remarkable equestrian art at Théâtre Equestre Zingaro in Aubervilliers, France. Here's a peek at his star…
The Pulitzer prize-winning writer's latest sees him tackle his own youth with an at times predictable yet bracing tour of a small Catholic boarding schoolManhattan Theater Club, New YorkHas …