Trafalgar theatre, LondonAmy Heckerling adapts her own iconic screenplay for a lumbering production in need of more belters from composer KT Tunstall What do you get if you cross a high-scho…
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonThe cancellation in 2022 of a sex education show for children and their families is revisited in this hour of artistic self-assessment The stage is dressed for an…
Performers can fight cynicism in age of Trump, says Nicola Benedetti as she announces 2025 programme Musicians and artists should challenge disinformation and cynicism in global politics by …
Sadler's Wells, LondonPairing Brown's classic Working Title with Soulier's recent In the Fall shows off both choreographers' highly skilled simplicity In these times of shrinking arts budget…
Performing in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist during A-levels was a lesson in low-art laughs and political anger that unites an audience It was 1999. I was doing A-levels in Ashf…
The role has inspired the world's best ballerinas and her story is as popular as ever " whether revived, reimagined or deconstructed. Dancers explain the appeal of Giselle 'I thought I looke…
Yard theatre, London Jay Miller's production raises the ghosts of troubled memories with powerful intimacy in this final show before the venue gets a grand refit Tennessee Williams' semi-aut…
As she brings A Shadow Work to the UK, the New York choreographer talks about therapy, 'pulling up women with me' and art-led activism Chanel DaSilva has always been a dancer. "I felt comple…
The Place, London Tom Cassani outlines conjuring techniques with a beguiling routine, while Compagnie Les Vagues make a teasing performance from tiny movements Throwing shapes is expected at…
A modern retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream was pulled last September in a dispute over one of the play's songs A review into the cancellation of a production of A Midsummer Night's Drea…
Hampstead theatre, London A group of fantasy gamers begin to exorcise their struggles with grief and trauma in a drama with a brilliant set-up Fantasy isn't factual but it's true, said Ursul…
South African playwright whose work dealt with the injustices and absurdities of the apartheid era Apartheid in South Africa cut both ways. The white Afrikaner playwright Athol Fugard, who h…
Furlough's Paradise, a 'lyrical' journey about grief, scoops award for female, transgender and non-binary playwrights The Susan Smith Blackburn prize for female, transgender and non-binary p…
The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than anger I feel that Athol Fugard and his wife, Paula Fourie, changed m…
The UK's world-class arts festivals are in crisis. They need proper support in order to survive and flourish At a press conference for the Sarajevo film festival in the early 1990s, its foun…
Theatre Royal, Bury St EdmundsAn all-female cast deliver Tallulah Brown's play about 17th-century East Anglians under threat of the self-styled Witchfinder General The past sings to the pres…
Comedian Angie Belcher offers country's first such workshops in Bristol to help people process trauma Survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) are taking courses in standup comedy to help proce…
Theatre503, London Playwright Ruth D'Silva explores cruelty and control but also kindness in a knotty drama focusing on a mother-daughter relationship 'Don't play with your food," Bernadette…
Leeds PlayhousePhoenix Dance Theatre's artistic director Marcus Jarrell Willis brings an urgency and groove to a tale of hunger, tenderness and sexual identity In the centre of a minimal sta…
In a sense, Athol Fugard always remained a mystery. He was the sort of person in whose presence you felt a deep well of wisdoms hiding, wisdoms he would never divulge unless he trusted you, …
A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island The South African playwright and director Athol Fugard, whose work…
The great South African playwright keenly observed the damage of racism " and his courageous works told the world Athol Fugard, political dissident playwright, dies aged 92 Athol was always …
Arcola theatre, LondonMadeleine Brettingham's play aims to unpick male friendships and send up criminal groupies, but it treats the subject of mental health too lightly to make it meaningful…
Pavilion theatre, GlasgowA fine cast capture the emotional damage and inarticulate anger at the lie they have all been sold in this taut no-nonsense production He lies to gain status. His e…
Lyttelton; Royal Court, LondonA black British tailor dreams big in Michael Abbensetts' 70s comedy, made new by director Lynette Linton and designer Frankie Bradshaw. Plus, a one-woman show a…