RL Stine's bestselling children's horror stories will be presented in abandoned railway tunnels beneath Waterloo station in LondonFeaturing everything from the deadly camera of Say Cheese an…
Finborough, LondonRobert Bolt's 1957 play highlights the domestic tensions of a man at loggerheads with his family " and the echoes of Death of a Salesman are deafening Robert Bolt wrote man…
Findings also reveal extent to which gender and ethnicity influence prospects of entering and gaining fair deal in industryThe UK's creative industries are dominated by middle class people, …
Twixt Cup and Lip, an early work by the future Nobel prizewinner unseen until now, appears in the Strand magazineAn early play by a young William Faulkner, in which an author better known fo…
The Place, LondonA high-tech exploration of Odedra's own struggles with learning difficulty creates some hit-and-miss imagesAakash Odedra's solo is called Murmur 2.0, and those digits in the…
Rio cinema, LondonA young cast bring verve to the history of a century-old filmhouse " but the plot gets lost in the dark"No point looking sheepish, darling," says the usherette, fixing you …
Rhik Samadder meets the Comedy Store misfit and forgotten pioneer of British alternative comedyAn open-mic night below a Stoke Newington pub. A man in a black cowl, looking unnervingly simil…
A hip-hop history, a dance-theatre Macbeth and the start of the festive programme … here are the shows to look out for this weekThe Damon Albarn and Moira Buffini musical wonder.land, insp…
Based on interviews with tenants affected by regeneration, the production tells the human stories behind the capital's housing bubble"If I'm being moved outside of London, how do I get to wo…
The actor tells how, after years making a mixed bag of films, he and director Neil Armfield brought 'the greatest play in the English language' to Sydney My career turned a sudden corner in …
The Master and Margarita, a novel about the devil and his cat wreaking havoc in Moscow, is said to be impossible to adapt. Can Simon McBurney succeed where Fellini and Polanski failed?Simon …
Portrayal of the overlooked DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin wins best actress prize at London Evening Standard theatre awardsNicole Kidman's triumphant return to the West End stage for the f…
The 61st London Evening Standard theatre awards, in partnership with The Ivy at The Old Vic Theatre, saw scores of theatre and television figures converge to honour this year's work Continue…
Dance City, NewcastleThe Scottish Ensemble and Andersson Dance team up for an infectious, sonorous dance interpretation of the Goldberg VariationsThe composition of Bach's Goldberg Variation…
The Pit at the Barbican, LondonNigel Barrett and Louise Mari ask what really makes us human in an age of artificial intelligence with a show that engages of your sensesTheatre rarely engages…
While cagey about his new play at the National, the actor and writer is quite happy to ponder the clash between his intellectual tendencies and more populist stints as the voice of Rex in To…
Although his career in theatre spans three decades, Ian McDiarmid is best known for his role as the Evil Emperor in the Star Wars films. He talks to Lindesay Irvine about running London's Al…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldA cast of six work wonders in this clever adaptation of Caradoc Evans's caustic tales of life in rural Wales"The most hated man in Wales"; "the Welsh James Joyce". Opinions…
Temporary theatre, National Theatre, London Jon Klassen's children's story takes to the stage with just a touch of gore and much joyful audience participationI am not sure what my best bit w…
Shaftesbury, London This garish sleight-of-hand variety show would work better on the tellyOh, the difference there can be between magical and magic. The Illusionists is a sleight-of-hand va…
Barbican, LondonOliver Ford Davies as Chorus outshines Alex Hassell's restrained Henry in Gregory Doran's measured productionThere is a kind of conjuring in Gregory Doran's production of Hen…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet's Ashton double bill finds Cuthbertson and Muntagirov struggling to take offThe Two Pigeons was choreographed by Frederick Ashton and first performe…
Katherine Soper, winner of the Bruntwood prize, is at the head of a promising group bidding to break down barriersFor any British teenage girl hoping to become a playwright, the chances are …
Playwright whose work captured the conflicts of class and race in 1960s BritainBarry Reckord, who has died aged 85, was a pioneering playwright from the Caribbean with an under-explored lega…
On Saturday, the London club night Duckie celebrates 20 years of drag artists, classic rock, and all-round messiness. What's the secret of its success?The clubbing world is fickle. Of course…