Film-makers around the world have re-imagined the Bard's plays with staggering results. Here are five of the bestThe release of Justin Kurzel's Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Mario…
The comedian on his odyssey into the human brain, why he never wants to play a stadium again " and the reason he turned down his comedy hero Hi Rob. So why are you doing a show on the brain?…
The two film stars will play the moor of Venice and the villainous Iago in the Shakespeare tragedy at a 199-seat theatre in autumn 2016Daniel Craig will join David Oyelowo on the small stage…
Actor who founded a stunt team company that provided much of the action on British television in the 1960s and 70sDerek Ware, who has died of cancer aged 77, was an actor and stuntman and fo…
Regional theatres will thrive when they are democratic open spaces, where communities gather to share ideas about the lives they lead and aspire to"Money's nice, but connections and conversa…
Watford Palace theatreUnlovely Alan comes up against his Indian heritage in Neil D'Souza's play, but even a magical realist tiger can't keep all these big ideas in focusWhen middle-aged, UK-…
Two new TV series " Together and The Almost Impossible Gameshow " demonstrate how live acts as unique as Jonny Sweet and the Rubberbandits can find the funny to suit different formatsI wrote…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBalanchine's 1947 ballet is pressured and punchy, but the rest of this mixed programme shrinks to caricature and uneven pasticheIn Theme and Variations, Balanchine took…
Grid Iron tour in Scotland, Little Bulb are in Liverpool, Figs in Wigs and Uninvited Guests are in Bristol and New York's brilliant the Team take up residence at the Royal CourtAnne-Marie Du…
Dance Umbrella's Out of India programme unites contemporary artists who are crossing borders, breaking boundaries and exploring issues of corruption and urbanisation in their country through…
Sydney Dance Company stage a one-off triple bill, Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet shows in Canberra and Casula Powerhouse celebrate their 21st birthdayIlluminated in Melbourne Continue reading...
Australia's first contemporary Indigenous dance film is an exhilirating cinematic debut for choreographer Stephen Page and his talented team ' Guardian Australia film club in Adelaide " book…
The dream of a national theatre has happily come to pass, not only in England but in Wales and Scotland, too. But is regional theatre under threat as a result?I was very struck by something …
Beat Generation will debut at this year's Jack Kerouac Literary festival in Massachusetts, 55 years after it was writtenJack Kerouac's only full-length play will receive its world premiere t…
Richard Gadd carved a cult reputation for himself with schlocky shows full of drugs, sex and gore. Now, in Waiting for Gaddot, he's pushing his audience even further " by threatening not to …
Chichester Festival theatreSeeing Platonov, Ivanov and The Seagull in a single day unforgettably charts Chekhov's progress from farce to melodrama to a new symphonic realism Sir David Hare h…
Lilian Baylis theatre, LondonIdan Sharabi is inspired by the music of Joni Mitchell, while Claire Cunningham explores the emotional cost of moving on crutchesIn many ways, the two works on t…
Orange Tree, RichmondPaul Miller's impressively cast production throws more light on nervous British masculinity than even the playwright may have intendedTerence Rattigan's 1936 hit has sur…
Playwright speaks about the TV drama and his admiration for Shane Meadows before a potentially controversial staging of his play Mydidae in BelfastThe writer of Channel 4's hit TV drama This…
The actor on her new role in Plaques and Tangles, in which she plays a woman who discovers she has early-onset Alzheimer'sShe's played real-life stalker Maria Marchese in U Be Dead and Rose …
The American dramatist on three-minute plays, meeting Pinter and the boyish looks of Aaron EckhartYou don't much like interviews, do you?I don't run around looking for them. I'm always happy…
DeNada Dance Theatre's smart meditations on sexual identity and machismo could teach larger ensembles a thing or twoCarlos Pons Guerra grew up on the island of Gran Canaria. As a teenager he…
This semi-musical drama about an Asian girl growing up in the Midlands in the 1970s never quite hits its strideAnyone whose parents came from elsewhere will be familiar with the gaps between…
Young Vic, LondonA fast and furious staging of one of Shakespeare's 'problem' plays retains a dark heart despite its comic toneThe opening scene of Joe Hill-Gibbins's staging of Measure for …
Bristol Old VicA fiery new production of Arthur Miller's masterpiece returns to the stage of its 1954 British premiereIn the centenary year of Arthur Miller's birth, his play about the Salem…