The news that nine out of 10 plays on the Abbey theatre's centenary programme are by men has revived feminist energy. We won't be silenced againIn Ireland, we take theatre seriously. This is…
Theatres can't keep asking us to hang about in the dark while actors move house. We may as well go to the cinemaAll performers hope for applause " but the new London West End production of U…
Royal Ballet: Monotones I and II & The Two Pigeons | Christian Rizzo: D'Apres Une Histoire VraieFrederick Ashton was a 20th-century English romantic, a choreographer who was inclined tow…
Funny Girl | Contained | The Homecoming | Going Viral | The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe | Queen AnneIf you failed to get tickets for Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory (the four…
Director Jean-Luc Choplin explains how he led an English-language musical comedy revolution when he took the reins at Paris's Châtelet theatreAs a young Frenchman visiting New York in the…
Mike Wozniak: One Man Dad Cat Band | Daniel Sloss: Dark | Fern Brady: People Are IdiotsHe might not be engaging in elaborate French-influenced physical clowning or offering Stewart Lee-esque…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonJames Fritz confirms himself as a writer going places in this fascinatingly slippery play in which moral certainties collapse and relationships unravelJames Fritz ma…
Vaudeville, LondonFrench draws on memories of her beloved father and her relationship with her body to tackle the biggest subject of all: how do you be a person?Dawn French has been alive 30…
The Sherlock and Spectre actor is next up in the play The Dazzle " and will answer your questions in a live webchat from 1pm GMT on Monday 16 November. Post yours in the comments below 10.00…
Lyceum Theatre, New YorkDirector Ivo van Hove delivers a thrillingly claustrophobic version of Arthur Miller's classic, with an extraordinary performance by Mark Strong as a man who has beco…
Streep and Wim Wenders among stars supporting #wakingthefeminists protest over choice of plays at Irish national theatre to mark 1916 Easter RisingHollywood stars, including the actor Meryl …
Theatre and television director who nurtured stars and dazzled audiencesThere are few stage directors whose work, at the highest level, encompasses the plays of Joe Orton and William Douglas…
Linbury studio, London The Leeds-based company marks 35 years with a triple bill kicking off with Caroline Finn's Bloom, a creepily beguiling cabaret of odditiesNext year, as Phoenix celebra…
Sadler's Wells, London Waltz's triple bill is over-stylised at times, but her version of The Rite of Spring skewers the stage with the forceful choreography of revoltBerlin-based choreograph…
Young Vic, London A spirit of jaunty anarchy, violent incontinence and a prankster king belie this deeply political tale of what it's like to live under an irrational dictatorship Anyone fea…
Above the Arts, London The late Snoo Wilson let his imagination run wild in this rough and ready absurdist delve into the brilliant mind of the troubled codebreakerPlaywright Snoo Wilson had…
Madison Square Garden, New YorkBruce Springsteen brought laughs and hits, while guests Seth Meyers and John Oliver delivered some testy material that divided the roomStand Up For Heroes, a s…
From Gypsy to Harlequinade and The Moderate Soprano, London's theatres are awash with shows about showbiz. Are they a valid celebration of the power of art, or just for self-indulgent luvvie…
ICT's extraordinary Brainstorm, available on BBC iPlayer from Sunday, is part of a wave of shows in which teenagers are emerging as fully fledged artistsAt 9pm on Sunday 15 November, BBC Fou…
He's been a prehistoric bird in Pan and a killer plant in Little Shop of Horrors. But there's one role puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew will never escapeHoused in a musty-smelling former temperance …
St Ann's Warehouse, New YorkHarriet Walter is authoritative as the king, and it's wonderful to hear Shakespeare's words performed by women, but the prison setting muddles the playSt Ann's Wa…
Belvoir's take on the global cocaine blizzard is shockingly dark, occasionally overplayed, but compelling, taking us from Surry Hills to Kreuzberg via MexicoFrom the moment Detective Grubbe,…
China Doll will open two weeks late, with Al Pacino reportedly using an earpiece to feed him lines " and he wouldn't be the first star to need technical assistanceIn Misery, the Broadway ada…
Para los presos de una de las cárceles mas duras de la ciudad el representar las obras de Shakespeare y de otros dramaturgos es una forma de expandir sus horizontes, reconectarse con sus …
Lovers of good drama and politics junkies should flock to Samuel West's superb revival of Harley Granville Barker's play. Written in 1907 and revised in 1926, it takes its time (just over th…