The company whose huge mechanical elephant triumphed last year is using puppets in the shopfronts of Nantes to tell more tall talesLa Révolte des Mannequins Shop windows, Nantes, Fran…
Home, Manchester; East Riding theatre, BeverleyA one-man exploration of crime caught the eye at Manchester's celebration of low-budget new work, while dinner party guests went ape in Yorkshi…
Royal Opera House, LondonHayward is astonishing, easy perfection in classic Frederick Ashton. In the Royal Ballet's second cast, Steven McRae takes commandThe Royal Ballet's revival of Frede…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe border between Ellen and Eileen is permeable in Atkins's extraordinary one-woman show"Sixty-three and on one-night stands." Ellen Terry, the loved Victoria…
With The Brain Show, Robert Newman provides a welcome counter-argument to the many comedians hymning the virtues of rational inquiryComedy and science have been intimate bedfellows these pas…
Tron, GlasgowYou could describe the plot of Knives in Hens easily enough. You could say that David Harrower's play was about a young woman driven to kill her adulterous ploughman husband wit…
He's been called offensive, dated, lazy and misogynistic. Is Paul Chowdhry " Britain's first Asian standup superstar " bothered? Nosheen Iqbal finds outStanding in a Soho alleyway to be phot…
Gielgud Theatre, LondonThe first night of Yasmina Reza's new play was disrupted by a power failure. At one point Cameron Mackintosh, the theatre owner, appeared to explain: "I haven't s…
The actor, 53, on defining love, travelling third class in India, and being the new boyMy mother had an expression: "Get your guts into it." She used to say it with an emphatic movement of t…
Ibsen wanted his plays to be continually updated after his death. As his new version of The Master Builder opens, Hare reflects on the pain and pleasure of adaptation " and what he learned p…
From caustic crash tale The Big Short to Ralph Fiennes's Master Builder and Lance Armstrong-inspired stand-up, here are the cultural highlights of the next seven days FILMThe Big Short Conti…
A Girls Is A Half Formed Thing | Wit | Jeepers Creepers | Rabbit Hole | The Master Builder | A Raisin In The SunFirst seen in Dublin and then in Edinburgh last summer, Annie Ryan's stage ver…
Bolshoi Ballet: The Taming Of The Shrew | Sadler's Wells SampledJean-Christophe Maillot's production of the Shakespeare comedy " being broadcast from Russia to cinemas across the UK " is his…
Kieran Hodgson: Lance | Tony Law: Frillemorphesis | Tom Stade: You're WelcomeThis one-man character comedy show about a young boy's deep and abiding love of Lance Armstrong was one of the ho…
Lancaster ArtsVia video, sound design and a carriage that actually moves, Imitating the Dog's latest production is alluring but doesn't quite convinceChildren carry our hopes into the future…
The star of The Wire, The Affair and now Les Liaisons Dangereuses is joining us for a live webchat at 1pm GMT onwards on Tuesday 26 January " post your questions for him in the comments belo…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThis expressive revival of Simon Stephen's graphic play about teenage barbarity underplays social factors in favour of grotesque animal horrorSimon Stephens's play, …
At the former Central Saint Martins building in Charing Cross Road, producer Emily Dobbs is re-imagining the Theatreland experience and drawing upon the site's rich history of creativity"We …
Actor who starred as Mollie Ralston in The Mousetrap with her husband, Richard AttenboroughWhen Agatha Christie's murder mystery play The Mousetrap opened in London in 1952, the actor Sheila…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal's revival of Rhapsody turns from pretty to thrilling, while Two Pigeons takes off in playful, touching styleThere are sections of Rhapsody that are as bril…
From a variety show hosted by David Tennant to comedy shows and film adaptions, BBC festival marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's deathA variety show live from Stratford-upon-Avon and ho…
Trafalgar Studios 2, LondonIt's the work of his grandson, but this adaptation of Oscar Wilde's great novella is miscast, plodding and dullWickedness has seldom been made to seem quite so dul…
The standup comedian and star of Trainwreck says she is 'literally going to take a polygraph test' after being accused of copying material by Patrice O'Neal and othersThe comedian Amy Schume…
Palace theatre, LondonThis erudite-magpie's tour of human history yields vintage Izzard moments of delightful silliness, yet lacks in jeopardy over two-and-a-half hours "I didn't want to bri…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghAmanda Gaughan's excellent revival highlights the loneliness of the characters gathered to tell tales in a rural pubThere's something unsatisfying about a certain type…