Inextinguishable Fire, performed at the National Theatre as part of Spill festival, takes on the mantle of every violent act you have ever heard aboutOn Sunday evening, the Spill festival en…
Southbank Centre, LondonLucy Bell's two-hander about the pressures of being a parent with a drug habit is cunningly constructed and gloriously sungHannah (Kathleen Fitzpatrick-Milton) and Ki…
So, Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin are a couple. But the passion of dancers should be about scaling dizzy heights, not curling up with a box setWhen Sadler's Wells theatre announced its …
The Just Like a Woman season begins at Chelsea theatre, Radar festival starts at the Bush and Barney Norris's Eventide is in BristolThe TEAM's RoosevElvis continues to delight at the Royal C…
Musical revisits an important and shameful past of the internment of Japanese Americans but story on stage fails to deliver distinctive and rich performances The forced internment of 120,000…
The graphic design pioneer's retrospective launches in Melbourne, Carl Barron drinks with a fork in Darwin and Future Classic teams up with the MCALes Mason: Solo, in Melbourne Continue read…
It's already a smash hit, but this telly-hyped Oliver! just reheats tired clichés that belong in the 1960sOliver!Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London WC2 Roaring TradeSoho, London Continu…
Everyone should have access to high-quality artistic experiences, regardless of location. The Touring Network takes theatre to remote communities with the help of local peopleIn August this …
The millionaire standup comedian tells those who have sneered at his routines: 'If it's so easy then why don't you do it?'Michael McIntyre's brand of observational comedy has made him comedy…
Hull Truck theatreGodber's construction trade piece doesn't break new ground, but has enough passion to see it through John Godber has always had a fondness for punning titles: Perfect Pitch…
They start as young as nine and wear costumes so lavish, heavy and painful some of them faint. As Chinese opera heads for Britain, our writer goes behind the scenes at its Beijing HQAn elabo…
Museum of Comedy, LondonIn this luridly populated show " her first after becoming a trans woman " Franken gives an intermittently persuasive vision of a culture in meltdownIf you've come exp…
Stadium-filling comedian Michael McIntyre tells Desert Island Discs of 'amazing hostility' from other comicsThe comedian Michael McIntyre has admitted to being shocked by the "hostility…
Britain's highest-earning standup comedian says fellow comics who accuse him of playing safe are 'doing everything except make people laugh'Michael McIntyre, Britain's highest-earning standu…
Garrick, LondonIn a production unafraid to hint at the darker elements of Shakespeare's fable, Branagh and Dench are surrounded by a first-rate teamThe image of the West End suddenly brighte…
Garrick, LondonZoë Wanamaker is in soul-baring form in Rattigan double-bill depicting the actor-manager tradition the Branagh season is designed to subvertIronically, co-directors Rob Ash…
The actor on a lost classic by novelist Elizabeth Harrower, Todd Haynes's Carol, the punk spirit of artist Maria Lassnig and the dirty, energising energy of Captain Beefheart's Clear SpotBen…
Hampstead theatre, LondonRoger Allam and Nancy Carroll hit all the right notes in David Hare's play about the founders of GlyndebourneThe soprano in David Hare's new play has nothing of the …
JW3, LondonLaz's struggles with his wasting limbs are especially poignant in this adaptation by the late Christopher LeithThis year, the Suspense festival of puppetry has included an adaptat…
Nottingham Playhouse Fiona Buffini's production does justice to John Webster's play " even if at times the sense of his words is lostTwo kinds of musicality can make or mar a production: the…
Sadler's Wells, LondonChristopher Bruce rocks, Didy Veldman takes on Picasso and Kim Brandstrup gets to grips with Schoenberg in Rambert's triple billRambert's latest triple bill turns its g…
Olivier, LondonPolly Findlay's ingenious reimagining of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy is a visual and aural delightAs You Like It? Absolutely. But not as it has been seen before. Polly Findl…
Drawing on personal experience, the award-winning troupe delivers an impressive evocation of the psychological impact of life under a dictatorship "Your meeting place is the Steps of St John…
The actor-director's season of plays in London's West End opens this weekend with The Winter's Tale, starring Judi Dench, and Terence Rattigan's Harlequinade, starring Zoë WanamakerKennet…
Roundhouse, LondonA group of young people, neuroscientists and psychologists endeavour to resolve the age-old conundrum " with the help of a bacon sandwichFourteen-year-old Eden has been thi…