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Isy Suttie: The Actual One | Ivo Graham: No Filter | Tiff Stevenson: Mad MenFor years, Isy Suttie was one of the London circuit's hidden treasures " an unassuming, occasionally guitar-wieldi…
The Mother | The Solid Life Of Sugar Water | The Train | Escaped Alone | Jane Eyre | Push 2016Florian Zeller's The Father was, for many, the West End play of last year, a heart-rending portr…
BalletLORENT: Snow White | Mr WonderfulChoreographer Liv Lorent joins forces with poet Carol Ann Duffy for the second of their clever, and illuminating fairytale collaborations. For Snow Whi…
Coliseum, LondonThe junior soloist dances like an international star in this luminous, outrageous, orientalist rompIn Le Corsaire, ballet often veers closer to music hall than art. Its pirat…
The author, comedian and Peep Show star is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat from 1pm GMT onwards on Tuesday 19 January " post them in the comments below 10.55am GMT Isy …
Sydney Opera House, Sydney festivalMulti-faceted, fast moving and dark, Marrugeku's latest work gives an Indigenous perspective to climate changeCut the Sky opens with a scene that would not…
American Airlines Theater, New YorkMichael Frayn's play about a disastrous attempt to stage the farce Nothing On is one of the funniest ever " but at times the cast seem to be acting in diff…
Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Helen Mirren among those remembering the giant of movies and theatre " known best to many as Professor Snape in Harry Potter " …
Ian McKellen, Sigourney Weaver, Ruby Wax, Stephen Poliakoff, Richard Wilson and others remember a peerless actor and friendAlan was perhaps our most distinctive and unique stage and film per…
From Riverside Studios to Broadway, Glasgow Union theatre to Hollywood, Shakespeare to slapstick, Die Hard to Jane Austen and every conceivable point in between, Alan Rickman was a truly gre…
Rickman, who came to the fore in the RSC's 1980s golden period, was an actor blessed with a voice that could caress language with laidback seductivenessFor all his later fame as the creepy S…
Versatile stage and screen actor hailed for his roles in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Harry Potter and Love Actually Related: Alan Rickman: the most loyal, playful and generous of friends …
Tate Modern, LondonFrom earthquakes to elephants, David Espinosa's charming tabletop epic, performed with little plastic models, shows what an an artist can do with unlimited creativityImagi…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonRidiculusmus find comedy in their Beckettian take on treating post-traumatic stress disorder with ecstasyMuch research has evidently gone into this production, t…
Albery Theatre, LondonRating: **** More reviewsIs it better to love temperately or wildly, wisely or too well? The question is posed in Howard Davies's very funny, very deep and subtle re…
Much-loved star of stage, TV and films including Harry Potter and Die Hard " and owner of one of the most singular voices in acting Â" has died in London Related: Alan Rickman: an actor o…
Teenage primary care-givers will perform a curtain-raiser for Bourne's Sleeping Beauty at Sadler's Wells " a chance to lessen their isolation and explore the expressive world of danceThe tee…
Abbey theatre, DublinGeorge Bernard Shaw's early work rehearses trenchant social commentary about marriage and parenthood, and shows that compromise is no easy matterGeorge Bernard Shaw the …
National, LondonYou can see what Katie Mitchell as director and Martin Crimp as translator are trying to do in this new version of The Seagull: strip away the varnish and escape the linen-su…
Theatre Royal, LondonOnce upon a time musicals drew their inspiration from books, plays or even real life; now they seem to be based on animated movies. But, although Shrek stems from the 20…
Her champions regard Katie Mitchell as Britain's greatest living stage director " but her critics see a vandal smashing up the classics. After staging her most ambitious work in Europe, can …
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe last Macbeth we saw at this venue was a pop-culture Polish production in which the transvestite witches assiduously fellated the hero. No such excesses ta…
Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the ITV series William TellOne of ITV's first action heroes, notable for his expertise with a crossbow, was William Tell, played by Conrad P…
It's bleak, bitter and laughs in the face of despair. But enough about Coronation Street. The actors best known as Roy Cropper and Peter Barlow are swapping Weatherfield for Beckett. David N…
Valery Fokin's comments come after officials' call to resurrect Soviet-style 'arts councils', raising fears about censorshipA prominent Russian director has said theatres are required to app…
