Ambassadors; Finborough; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonJethro Compton's folky Cornish musical sweeps into the West End with fiddles and fudge; writer Ché Walker plays a fiery ex-con on a m…
Three decades after he first adapted Tchaikovsky's classic, the choreographer's reimagining of Swan Lake with an all-male corps is back for an anniversary tour. At rehearsals with the new ca…
Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, SheffieldHolden and Ed Stambollouian's one-man drama based on a real-life murder in 80s America uses film tropes to great effect " but it plays with the facts t…
Omnibus theatre, LondonThe installation of the Horizon digital till resembles the villain's entrance in a pantomime The false prosecutions and persecutions of 900 subpostmasters by the Post …
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonPairs of dancers exactly in time with each other act out Anthony Hamilton's hypnotic contemporary dance algorithm It looks a bit like Janet Jackson's Rhythm Natio…
Linbury theatre, LondonSophie Laplane's If at First switches so fast stylistically that it might be garbled, while Mthuthuzeli November's The Waiting Game stages an existential crisis Sophie…
Lyceum theatre, SheffieldBeautifully staged and danced with bonneted and bewhiskered brio, Dickens's classic dose of festive escapism is the gift that keeps on giving Directed by Christopher…
The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny I…
Alphabetti, NewcastleWritten and performed by Matt Miller, this tender solo show weaves in bittersweet childhood memories with car maintenance metaphors We have signed up for a 12-week cours…
Event has brought new drama each week, and stars such as Robbie Coltrane, to city's West End since it began in 2004 "I couldn't imagine it not being here," says Diane Carroll, who has worked…
Ambassadors theatre, LondonRelocating the F Scott Fitzgerald story to a Cornish fishing village, this is a vivacious yet touching show F Scott Fitzgerald's tale of a man who ages in reverse …
The Place, London Hannah Ekholm and Faye Stoeser's double bill pairs precise poses with a compelling electronic score Club culture has left its stamp on contemporary dance in recent years " …
Her novel about being Anna Wintour's assistant caused such a storm, she wished she'd never written it. As the story becomes a musical with songs by Elton John, the author reveals why the imp…
Theatre's boom season offers puppy puppetry, hungry houseplants and fresh spins on Dickens, Dumas and Disney Royal and Derngate theatre, Northampton, 7-31 December Continue reading...
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThe 2008 Canadian film about zombie-like hordes spreading a verbal virus is given a Welsh update, with a radio host refusing to rein in his divisive rhetoric …
Paula Varjack's theatre show Nine Sixteenths looks back at the 2004 Super Bowl 'Nipplegate' controversy and what it reveals about the pressures on black women in the public eye It has been j…
The choreographer describes her challenging film shoot in the Spanish desert, where dancers are pitted against scorpions, fierce winds and punishing sun It is a chilly 6am start in late May …
What would happen if our arts critics and sports writers swapped roles for a day? How does the English National Opera compare to the Premier League … or the NFL to a West End musical? Our …
Premiering in 1979, this liberating production questioned gender and sexuality, with Antony Sher playing an upright father and a bearded five-year-old girl In 1979, I was at Dartington Colle…
Theatre Royal, NorwichTchaikovsky's score gets a Latin makeover and Cuban dance styles combine with classical ballet in this joyful and colourful festive family show In 1969, Fidel Castro b…
Outgoing artistic director of Young Vic calls for urgent government action to redress arts funding in schools Kwame Kwei-Armah, the outgoing artistic director of the Young Vic, has warned th…
My friend Maggie Forsyth, who has died aged 70 of cancer, spent more than two decades as a director and set designer with small theatre companies, including the Greenwich Studio company in s…
Stopgap's revelatory stage production Lived Fiction is committed to opening up dance for the whole audience Six dancers glide across the stage at the Lowry in Salford. As a visually impaired…
The actor explains how he likes to spend the day of rest in bed, watching nonsense on YouTube and playing Mario Kart Sunday blessings? As someone who earns a living from theatre, Sunday is …
Few actors inhabit a character as fully as Anne-Marie Duff, whether it's Elizabeth I or Lady Macbeth. As the second season of Bad Sisters arrives on our screens, she talks to Eva Wiseman Ann…