Ballet has always been more than just a job for Carlos Acosta. And as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he is trying to make it bigger than ever " even in the face of brutal cuts and the …
Oxford PlayhouseMorphing from shock-jock lupine to hand-wringing liberal, Lee lambasts the comedy of cruelty in scathing, slapstick style 'Sick of comedy, sick of me, sick of my own thoughts…
Barbican, London Katsiaryna Snytsina gives a merrily messy account, complete with deft displays of her ball skills, of being driven from sport into politics In this new piece by Belarus Free…
Park theatre, London This retelling of the princess's story makes her a formerly radicalised teen stranded in Syria " but the immersive staging often gets in the way The story of Sophocles' …
Omnibus theatre, London Natalia Lizorkina's play traces a mother's anguish when she is told her son 'has not been captured' in a dystopia where words mean their opposite Alya, a Russian moth…
Playwright calls for return to theatre's founding vision and to stop 'angling for West End' The National Theatre risks "eroding the culture" by shifting away from its founding principles an…
Duke of York's theatre, LondonThe Captain Marvel star is a magnetic frontwoman in Daniel Fish's radical rewiring of the ancient play 'There's nothing more dangerous to a warrior than emotion…
Charing Cross theatre, London Two-hander awkwardly studies Abraham Lincoln's wife through her sittings for photographer Mathew Brady Mary Lincoln, wife of the 16th president of the United St…
From Roxie and Velma in Chicago to Mrs Robinson in The Graduate, discover the designs of the Broadway great Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99), whose illustrated memoirs have been published Continu…
Death looms large in the pair's dance trilogy but, as Complicité's artistic director says, confronting it is 'integral to and essential for life' To one side of this light-filled studio at …
The Old Vic, LondonRami Malek's outsider vibes enliven seamy, superb new staging of Sophocles' family tragedy Dance in Greek tragedy " why not? The ancient Athenians did it, their choruses a…
Bush theatre, LondonA woman comes adrift from reality in babirye bukilwa's chilling character study We are at sea at the start of babirye bukilwa's visceral play about one Black queer woman'…
Coral Wylie's play Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew follows a teenager discovering themselves through horticulture and memories of an old family friend, played by Omari Douglas Gardening can …
Plays join shortlist for prestigious international award honouring scripts by female, transgender and non-binary playwrights Plays submitted by the National Theatre, the Almeida and the Roya…
The play within the acclaimed prison-set movie made its way to an off-Broadway stage this week with original cast members involved Recently, a few hundred people gathered in Manhattan at the…
Riverside Studios, London Barney Norris's adaptation of David Foenkinos's novel shows us a man who just missed out on stardom and is now facing fatherhood If one of Alan Bennett's Talking He…
Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan and Erin Doherty embark on a sexual adventure in a 'provocative' drama about a married couple and their younger lover. Has it made them rethink their own love l…
The writer of A Good House explains how her new play explores notions of belonging, suburban living and community politics Playwright, screenwriter and director Amy Jephta has spent her care…
So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatres If a former director of the National Theatre says that "more harm has …
Soho theatre, LondonThe Yorkshireman's half-banal half-profound ruminations on the subject of sight won me over A career that might be more successful if only he could describe to people wha…
The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens …
The Royal Ballet principal on her late career debut, taking her daughters to work, and playing goodies and baddies Born in Devon in 1984, Lauren Cuthbertson joined the Royal Ballet School ag…
Our ​theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK,​ from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about…
Sadler's Wells; Linbury theatre, LondonContenders for two new dance prizes include Kyle Abraham's buoyant celebration of Black life and an intriguing twist on Georgian folk dance. Elsewhere,…
Fruitmarket, Edinburgh Multi-art form company Magnetic North celebrate 25 years with a drifting musical journey that moves from isolation to belonging Scottish theatre company Magnetic North…