Crucible, SheffieldLorraine Hansberry's landmark play about the struggles of an African American family in a Chicago slum is as relevant today as it was half a century agoLorraine Hansberry …
Old Vic, LondonFiennes gives lustre to Ibsen's preposterous autobiographical tale of an ageing architect battling irrelevanceYou may catch Ralph Fiennes in an obscure play; never in an insig…
Garrick, LondonLolita Chakrabarti's powerful play about the 19th-century African American actor Ira Aldridge is now where it should be…In 1833 the African American actor Ira Aldridge took …
Lyttelton, LondonSharon D Clarke as the 'mother of the blues' leads a superb cast in Dominic Cooke's knockout productionWhat are the great American plays of the late 20th and early 21st cent…
In the mid-60s, thanks to the Inner London Education Authority's policy of subsidised matinees for schools, I was privileged to see the National Theatre's production of Othello with Laurence…
Raphael Schumacher was part of immersive theatre production in Pisa and in front of just one audience member when accident occurredAn Italian actor who was left in a coma after he accidental…
The eclectic film actor has confirmed he will stage Zach Helm's Good Canary at Kingston's Rose theatre next year The American actor John Malkovich is heading to the UK " not to the West End …
What's it like to play Shakespeare's most controversial character? As a new RSC production opens, Patrick Stewart, Antony Sher and other former Shylocks reveal allPatrick Stewart Bristol Old…
Maths teacher-turned-comic Romesh Ranganathan goes on tour, the films of Preston Sturges play at the BFI, and we return to not-so Happy Valley; here are all this week's cultural highlightsTV…
Mrs Henderson Presents | Doctor Faustus | The Broke 'N' Beat Collective | The Herbal Bed | Motown The Musical | Any Means NecessaryWithout the movies as source material, it seemed the musica…
Romesh Ranganathan: Irrational | Wring Out The Clowns | Bowieoke CircusThere are loads of comics who do material about the struggle of coping with family life and the pressures of being a da…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Como El Musguito | The Royal Ballet: Christopher Wheeldon Triple BillThis is the last work created by Pina Bausch before her sudden death in 2009, and it's…
Hampstead theatre, LondonClaire Skinner and Tom Goodman-Hill play a couple struggling to cope with their son's death in a play handled with finesse by director Edward HallThis 2006 play by D…
Jacksons Lane, LondonSvalbard's acrobatic exploration of relationships and identity has flashes of hallucinatory powerThe young, all-male international circus company Svalbard close this yea…
Cambridge JunctionThe ex-Peep Show star co-opts Roy the papier-mache penguin and her Slovenian flatmate Anya in a warm and wise show about her quest for loveWe're not in unfamiliar territory…
Millepied's departure is a surprise: he was meant to revitalise a ballet institution, forcing it into the 21st centuryBenjamin Millepied's decision to quit his job as director of the Paris O…
Gaskill, who was Royal Court artistic director at a time that was rich, bloody and embattled, helped to hasten the demise of stage censorship in BritainWilliam ("Bill" to everyone in the the…
Vicky Featherstone pays tribute to 'brilliant, uncompromising' director who was celebrated for his productions of Bond and Brecht " and for battling stage censorshipWilliam Gaskill obituaryW…
Theatre director who brought Brechtian principles and puritanical rigour to his productionsProductions by the theatre director William Gaskill, who has died aged 85, were praised for their r…
Barbican, LondonSix performers struggle to stay upright on a suspended stage that spins and tilts wildly in this technically impressive mime performanceIn 2011, the Barbican hosted Mathurin …
Black Swan choreographer, who took over France's prestigious ballet company in 2014, is said to be on the verge of quittingStar choreographer Benjamin Millepied is on the point of quitting P…
The National Theatre's literary department and Studio were recently combined to create an engine house for shows to suit stages of all sizes " and some of them are far from the South BankOne…
Tanztheater Wuppertal's playful Como el Musguito… contrasts with the darkness of Bausch's early shows while Cunningham's later pieces hummed with a digital energy. Choreographers' final wo…
Late summer is a festive time on the Western Australian coast, with Perth, Albany and Denmark hosting all manner of music, theatre, dance, literature and film eventsWest Australian artists t…
Ibsen's play about an architect jealous of rivals and haunted by guilt presents a searing self-portrait for a magnetic actorYou come out of most classic theatre these days discussing the dir…