Bristol Old Vic Little Bulb's motley cast of rabbits, badgers, frogs and a unicorn bring silliness and wonder to the festive seasonIf you go down to the woods today, Little Bulb have a big s…
Bristol Old VicSally Cookson's production is a playful retelling of the classic tale that blends WI fairy godmothers with bewigged panto baddiesFairytales have long been fair game for transf…
Little Angel theatre, LondonThe tale of an improbable trio of window-cleaning animals has been adapted into a perfect Christmas treat for childrenI wasn't familiar with the Roald Dahl story …
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonIt may be a poor man's Gypsy and Barbra Streisand has hitherto owned the role, but this production exhibits real class and Smith is a constant joy to watchThi…
Curve, Leicester Lionel Bart's undisputed high point is performed with gusto by an impressive cast, young and old " plus a barking mastiffIf Lionel Bart were composing Oliver! today, he'd al…
Getting young people involved in cutting-edge theatre is great, but we shouldn't forget drama is also a tool for social changeA few weeks back, I ran a drama workshop in a primary school in …
At a Guardian Live event in Glasgow, actor Brian Blessed recalls a trip to the magnetic north pole where his hair stood on end and he had an unlikely encounter with a polar bear. This clip c…
Director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin have teamed up for a new version of Macbeth at the Young Vic starring John Heffernan and Anna Maxwell Martin. It's murder on the dance…
Forget panel squabbles in a stuffy room " for our debate in the A Nation's Theatre series, we wanted a format as engaging as theatre itself. So we asked audiences to lie down in bed, dropped…
Guardian Culture Professionals Network readers reflect on their first and favourite theatre experiencesMy first theatre memory was Schlachten! at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 1999.…
The appointment of Sheffield Theatres' artistic director to lead at Chichester Festival theatre reflects his talent for musicals " and his innovative recordDaniel Evans has been appointed ar…
Macrobert Arts Centre, SterlingHans Christian Andersen probably wouldn't recognise the choreography nabbed from Taylor Swift, but he'd approve of the uproarious female energy I don't think t…
'Delighted' actor-director Evans to start work at Chichester Festival theatre in July after an award-winning seven years at Sheffield TheatresThe actor and director Daniel Evans has been app…
Royal Court, London Real social issues about older women get lost in sensory overload as Penelope Skinner's promising polemic lapses into melodramaNoma Dumezweni has stepped in at short noti…
As Sheridan Smith takes the lead role in the Menier Chocolate Factory's Funny Girl revival, take a look at the musical's history Continue reading...
New show will be first Broadway production to feature female director, choreographer, writer and composerThe musical Waitress has not yet begun serving its specials onstage yet, but it will …
A world premiere of Payne's Elegy, a revival of Brian Friel's Faith Healer, and Welcome Home, Captain Fox! by Anthony Weigh are on the Donmar's lineup A new play by Nick Payne, the writer of…
The successful 18-year-old playwright is working on a Mark Twain adaptation for Broadway, but his career has left him facing up to some serious FomoNoah Altshuler is reading JD Salinger's Ra…
Lilian Baylis Studio, LondonThe singer makes a major contribution to a show inspired by her album of Welsh folk music, part of the bold dance company's mixed programmeWhat a cheerleader Ball…
In the early 1950s when I was a freshman in Delhi, Saeed Jaffrey was a promising actor and an announcer on All India Radio. He mixed with the intelligentsia and was invited to all the posh e…
Michael Randle writes: Albert Hunt was a conscientious objector to military service in the late 1940s, and a supporter of the cause of nuclear disarmament.I first met him in late 1958 when t…
From the archive: In an interview first published on 1 June 1989, Felicity Kendal talks about Stoppard, Shakespeare, feminism and family lifeFelicity Kendal plays Beatrice in Much Ado About …
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThe queen's relationship with Sarah Churchill (an icily seductive Natascha McElhone) is central to this fascinating, topical production on the last Stuart queen'…
Beyond the Fence, the story of a family at Greenham Common, will incorporate machine-generated plot and musicThey have become brilliant at chess, had music performed by one of the world's le…
Play inspired by autobiography of man whose mother was Peter Sutcliffe's first known victimA playwright who owns the New End theatre in Hampstead, north London, is premiering a play in Leeds…