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The lovelorn poet-duellist with an unfeasibly long nose first delighted audiences in 1897When Cyrano de Bergerac was first performed on the Paris stage at the Porte Saint Martin theatre in 1…
'The worst thing anyone's said to me? At an audition, the director said, "I really wanted Helena Bonham Carter for this role" 'Born in County Durham, Gina McKee, 51, appeared in the film Not…
Vic and Bob get poignant on their anniversary tour, two of the Corrie cast do Samuel Beckett, and Stewart Lee deconstructs comedy (again): here are this week's cultural highlightsCOMEDY25 Ye…
Calais performance will be latest in series company has staged at refugee settlements during its Globe to Globe world tourShakespeare's Globe is taking its world touring production of Hamlet…
Adrian Lester as Hamlet, David Morrissey as Richard III, Joanna Lumley as Viola, Daniel Mays as Macbeth … To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to p…
Last night, Greg Sinclair and others were awarded £10,000 prizes at the Arts Foundation awards. That's brilliant, but what we need is a funding system that puts bread on the table and sup…
Joseph Morpurgo: Soothing Sounds For Baby | 25 Years Of Reeves And Mortimer: The Poignant Moments | Sean Lock: Keep It LightNot everyone likes comedy that seeks to do something radically dif…
Nell Gwynn | Endgame | Manipulate Festival | Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Queer Contact Festival | The End Of LongingQuantum Of Solace and St Trinian's star Gemma Arterton returns to the West End…
Mark Bruce Company: The Odyssey | Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois: Celui Qui Tombe (He Who Falls)In collaboration with the same team who worked on his darkly imagined Dracula, choreographer Mark B…
Theatre 503, LondonThis play about a woman who starts an online porn channel raises key feminist issues but suffers from improbable scenarios and thinly drawn charactersNicola (Georgia Groom…
Clyde Auditorium, GlasgowLimmy's screen-friendly comedy style struggles to translate to the stage, relying heavily on slapstick for easy laughsA celebrated sketch in the cult BBC Scotland se…
The new drama explores how undercover policemen were sent to spy on political groups and deceived women into forming intimate relationshipsA new play about undercover policemen and the pain …
The actor best known as Ron Swanson from television show Parks and Recreation is on a standup tour of Australia with a message for millennialsNick Offerman " the actor best known as the plai…
Royal Court, LondonLinda Bassett, Kika Markham, June Watson and Deborah Findlay deliver pitch-perfect performances in Churchill's apocalyptic and compassionate conversation piece Related: He…
Barbican, LondonThere is poignancy, darkness and powerful humanity in Circa's extraordinary physical depiction of the struggles endured by displaced persons in search of safety When the alli…
Workers once came from all over the world to work in Lumb Lane. Now the defunct Bradford mill is being used to stage their storiesLumb Lane was, for a long time, Bradford's most notorious ad…
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe chronicler of society's oddest habits leads an endearing book reading-plus-debate about social media shaming " with a bonus appearance from Bridget Christ…
Soho theatre, LondonSloss tries to hide an uncertain stage persona in self-consciously provocative standup, but too often shoots himself in the footDaniel Sloss claims not to know what the t…
Owen's retelling of a Greek myth in Cardiff earned rave reviews for its moral indignation. As it comes to the National, the playwright talks about his cri de coeur against austerityBefore la…
Andrew Upton's adaptation of Chekhov's Platonov will be taken to Broadway later this year, a first for a Sydney Theatre Company production Related: The Present review " Cate Blanchett and R…
Leicester Square theatre, LondonMonty Python's Terry Jones fails to get under the skin of the British comic known for his Round the Horne scriptsEven labours of love can be misguided, and it…
She's not just his fixer, assistant, co-writer and collaborator. She even picks the costumes and carpets. As Peter Brook revisits his epic Mahabharata, Marie-Hélène Estienne looks back on …
The Big Dance has been getting the general public moving for a decade. But its greatest achievement is the way we have woven dance into the fabric of our livesTwo of the performances that ha…
Think Silicon Valley has a monopoly on tech disruption? In 1966, New York hosted an art-tech mashup on an unrivalled scale, as John Cage, Yvonne Rainer and friends got plugged in for a spect…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterMargaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning play " about a woman with late-stage ovarian cancer " is given an authoritative revival by Raz Shaw"True wit," according to Alexan…
