Clwyd Theatr Cymru, MoldControversial stories by the renegade writer Caradoc Evans are inflated into a carnival of the grotesque in this hallucinatory new adaptationIn 1915, the Ceredigion w…
This collaboration with Battersea Arts Centre showcased the values of British independent theatre: innovation, inclusivity and spontaneityIn an era when television has become slick and shiny…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonHeart-stopping passion and delightful comic touches abound in Emma Rice's finely judged, almost hallucinatory productionWhen Daphne du Maurier's novel, which s…
Engaging actor known for his many film and TV roles which included parts in The Man Who Would Be King, My Beautiful Laundrette and Coronation StreetIt would have been easy to view the actor …
The Bruntwood prize for playwriting is announced this week, and its anonymised selection process could provide a new model for all theatres when considering scriptsTomorrow, the winner of th…
There's more to Warren Mitchell than meets the eye, Lyn Gardner discovers.Warren Mitchell has made a career out of playing miserable old gits. Most famously there was racist bigot Alf Garne…
Death of veteran actor who starred in Gandhi and A Passage to India as well as The Chess Players, Dil and Coronation Street was announced on SundaySaeed Jaffrey, veteran star of Bollywood an…
Ben-Hur with real sea battles, a children's magic show gone wrong and more … here are the new shows opening and touring this weekIt's your last chance for the strange and compelling Pomona…
Young VicJust a stroll from the Young Vic's bar, where people are drinking wine on the terrace, stands an ugly metal shipping container. It's there to accommodate audiences of just 28 who wi…
It's all very well for dance companies to get annoyed about their work being ripped off on YouTube, but it's up to them to open up their archivesThe dance world has recently lost three major…
Signature Theater, New YorkDirector Michael Wilson stays faithful to pessimistic stage rendition set during second world war " even though it may not be one of playwright's best worksThe dir…
Broadhurst Theatre, New YorkActor appears to inhabit a different world from co-star Laurie Metcalf in adaptation of Stephen King novelImmensely successful as an advertisement for the worst b…
The Place, LondonIn this retelling of the classic story, transposed to an oil plant, the dancing is upbeat and impressive " until it wears outZimbabwe-born Bawren Tavaziva has developed a di…
On stage or screen, David Tennant is a favourite with writers because of his ability to go from nerdy cop to handsome lover 'in just one moment'. Elisabeth Mahoney finds him taking yet anoth…
Lyttelton, LondonRoger Michell directs a fine cast in Harley Granville Barker's once scandalous playHarley Granville Barker's Waste was banned in 1907 for its scandalous content. Henry Trebe…
DanceEast, Ipswich; Galvanisers Union, LondonRenaud Wiser's take on the Snowden affair has more craft than story, while Kaleidoscopic Arts head for the pub…Renaud Wiser is a Swiss-born dan…
Garrick theatre, LondonKenneth Branagh is tremendous in a magical The Winter's Tale, though Judi Dench isn't half bad either…The curtain has not yet gone up, but the tinkling of a musical …
Actor best known for his TV role as the comic monster Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do PartWarren Mitchell, who has died aged 89, was the supreme example of a good actor kidnapped by one char…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonHaving put a girdle round the Earth, Jeff Baron's 1996 American play finally gets a West End showing. But, for all its global popularity, it strikes me as a thin-tex…
Actor known for starring in Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and in Health has died after long period of illness, says his family Actor Warren Mitchell, best known for starring as Alf G…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsSometimes life can play the cruellest tricks. Five years ago, Toby Jones was a jobbing actor who thought he had finally hit the big time with a minor part in N…
A choreographed string arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations in which both dancers and musicians dance is currently touring Scotland and the North East. We have two exclusive extractsGol…
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are touring their 90s characters around the UK, and trying to update them for the era of #piggate. But can they ever really work when comedy relies on the h…
Written from bitter experience, Ibsen's Little Eyolf is a bleak and brutal exploration of marital isolation. Ahead of his new staging, Richard Eyre explains why its heartbreak and hope reson…
From iPhone-filmed trans drama Tangerine to an anti-capitalist love-in on the South Bank, here are this week's cultural highlights FILMTangerine Continue reading...