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Stage and screen actor who appeared in eight of the saucy Carry On films of the 1960s and 70s
Julian Holloway, who has died aged 80, was a prolific television actor and voice artist, and had…
12 Last Songs gives a stage to everyday workers: wallpaperers, florists, hairdressers. It asks them big questions " and stirs big feelings
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From Matilda to Dear England, she is the movement director everyone wants to work with " and her work has lit up hit after smash hit. But, she says, it's time this under-appreciated art rece…
Merlyn theatre, the MalthouseFive actors play the WikiLeaks founder " but instead of exploring different, contradictory parts of his character, they form a united chorus of complaint
The pla…
From Romesh Ranganathan to Lee Mack, big-name standups are increasingly fronting quiz shows. What's causing the glut of comics?
Going from telling jokes about your sex life in a room above a…
Live theatre, NewcastleA South Shields family are torn by opposing forces as Ishy Din cleverly taps into the emotive memories of a weekend in the summer of 1977
It is a reasonable question. …
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state " or a ship of fools " in Rupert Goold's production
Thematic merchandise is common at Shakespeare …
Bridge Theatre, LondonNicholas Hytner's production plays like a thriller, while Brigerton star Bailey glitters with feeling in a potently physical modern-dress production
Long before Bridger…
Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actors, especially Kaya Scodelario, work hard with Beau Willimon's plot, but are hampered by a leaden, tension-light production
House of Cards writer Beau Willim…
Leeds PlayhouseMorgan Bailey's one-man show explores the many lives of Eugene Bullard, but for all its cinematic flourishes, emerges as a frustratingly shadowy character study
How do you cap…
Glass Mask theatre, DublinSimon Stephens's update of Franz Kroetz's stark 1972 play sees butcher Charlie and welder Victor amid knives and flanks of meat, the threat of violence palpable
In …
The comedian gets a nostalgic rush from the Smiths and would have the Beatles soundtracking his funeral, but which Welsh indie classic can he no longer bear?
The first song I fell in love wi…
Theatre Royal Stratford EastYou believe in the animals completely in this bold adaptation, which, with its seemingly guileless Napoleon, resonates darkly in the here and now
Popular among th…
Finborough theatre, LondonA symbolic, stripped-down staging fails to plumb the chilling emotional depths of this story about a Jewish man trying to flee Germany in the 1930s
A wealthy Jewish…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonChekhov's claustrophobic drama is perfectly suited to this intimate venue, with moments of humour leavening the heartbreak
The flowers spelling out Irina's nam…
Sadler's Wells East; Sadler's Wells, LondonThe elegant new Sadler's Wells East opened with an inclusive love letter to clubland, while its sister theatre hosted a more abstract spectacle
"Yo…
Garrick, London; Orange Tree theatre, RichmondErin Doherty, Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker rise to the challenge in Mike Bartlett's witty dissection of a throuple. And Roger Allam makes a …
Riverside Studios, LondonAdapted from a French bestseller, this fictional story of Martin, who missed out on the role of a lifetime, becomes a meditation on how lives are changed
Martin has …
Sadler's Wells, LondonWith its off-kilter comedy and flirtatious touches, this show is Bausch at her most accessible " and beautiful
There is some absolute beauty in Vollmond, one of the las…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThese two short plays offer differing pleasures " one in the acting, the other in its subtle meditation on mourning
Escaped Alone (2016) is first in this double bil…
Hull Truck theatreSnappy movement and a Billy Nomates score can't make up for the lack of emotional range in this portrait of the 18th-century writer
It was quite a life. Having escaped a vi…
Issa Rae, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes among those who chose not to associate with the institution and president
Donald Trump's takeover of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts i…
From young office workers to a 'Granny Grappler', women are being shown how to throw their weight around in WrestleLadsWrestle. Its creator, a former judo champion, tells us why
'Find a new …
Jokes about the president's power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move
Donald Trump's announcement that he was installing himself as the c…
Ustinov, BathIn an emphatic production that prowls around the mess of human motive, Peake's Sister Aloysius doggedly pursues a suspicion of abuse
John Patrick Shanley's play first appeared i…
