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worlds elsewhere by andrew dickson review -...

An entertaining exploration of the bards appeal,from Robben Island to BollywoodA visit to an Afghan...

indecent review - broadways first lesbian kiss...

Vineyard Theatre,New YorkA tender unconventional new play explores the furore created by Sholem...

a good traitor: the extraordinary life of george...

He escaped from prison,fled to Russia and – unlike the posh Cambridge spies – didn’t end up a...

speak, master: a text coach on shakespeares way...

Text adviser Giles Block on how the Bard made everything from pauses to awkward phrases sound as...

hes a total monster, but society needs him: power...

Director Ivo van Hove describes how he turned Shakespeare’s Roman plays into a six-hour study of...

jane horrocks webchat - as it happened

The Little Voice actor is covering 80s hits in her unique show If You Kiss Me Kiss Me,and joined us...

look before you leap into theatres mainstream

The extra funding and opportunities it offers are enticing,but the mainstream isn’t the location...

these paper bullets review - green days billie joe...

Atlantic Theater,recent YorkRolin Jones updates Much Ado About Nothing to swinging London, as...

these paper bullets review - green days billy joe...

Atlantic Theater,New YorkRolin Jones updates Much Ado approximately Nothing to swinging London, as...

john lahr: i got death threats for not liking a...

Basketball with Woody Allen,a hunting knife from David Mamet, hanging out with Groucho Marx … the...

war paint review - make up mavens face off in...

Goodman theatre,ChicagoWhen two cosmetic titans battle, it isn’t pretty – but this musical...

hemingway s forgotten spanish civil war play to be...

The Fifth Column,now revived for the first time in 70 years, is fascinating for what it reveals...

the magna carta plays review - brenton and friends...

Salisbury Playhouse Four short plays set corrupt Russians,a African president and free-market...

gemma arterton webchat - as it happened

The British actor,currently starring in Nell Gwynn in the West stop, joined us live to respond your...

the cherry orchard review - diane lane stars in...

American Airlines theatre,fresh YorkJumpy actors and an unusual vocabulary are among many jarring...

an encounter with victoria wood: you can t help...

Standup Ellie Taylor applauds the exquisite and joyful use of language that helps Wood land her...

groundhog day review - tim minchins musical is...

passe Vic,London[br]The team behind Matilda the Musical reunite for a intelligent, eye-catching show...

performing king lear by jonathan croall review - ...

The play now recognised as the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s work was once thought to be embarrassing...

tar baby review - passionate comedy slams the sham...

Vault festival,LondonDesiree Burch invites the audience to rebut racist cliches and face up to...

the judas kiss review - rupert everett compels as...

Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theatre,New YorkThe 1998 production faltered, but David Hare’s...

the dresser review - shearsmith and stott savour...

Duke of York’s theatre,LondonReece Shearsmith is a waspish factotum (all-around servant or...

a funny thing happened on the way to the...

MCC,New YorkDespite the raunchy one-liners, comedy approximately a couple falling in love in a...

gary sinyor: ive been warned that my biblical...

He made his name with the taboo-busting film Leon the Pig Farmer. Now he’s putting on a comedy...

sounds and sweet airs: the tempests seductive...

Composer Claire van Kampen on staging Shakespeare’s late play with her husband designate Rylance...

anita and me review - meera syal s culture clash...

Birmingham Rep theatre[br]Tanika Gupta’s lively adaptation,with music by Ben and Max Ringham,...

louis ck: two human babies have never fought ... i...

Louis CK,Gilbert Gottfried, Vanessa Bayer and Jim Gaffigan proved at the David Lynch Foundation...

jete, pursued by a bear: dancing the winters tale

Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon on adapting Shakespeare’s problem play as a ballet – and how...

hightide festival review - an express train of...

Aldeburgh,Suffolk Ninth time round, the festival showcases three impeccable (perfect, flawless)...

instructions for correct assembly review - bonnar...

Royal Court,LondonBonnar and Horrocks are excellent as parents attempting to replace their dead son...

the suicide review - thatcher blunders into a...

Lyttelton,LondonSuhayla El-Bushra brings Nikolai Erdman’s 1928 social comedy into the contemporary...

the damned united hits leeds: club graffiti,...

David Peace’s modern classic The Damned United is being staged in Leeds,a city with no great savor...

grass review - lawn party offers lessons about...

Unicorn,LondonFrom tubs of mud to two bees performing a wiggly nectar dance, this is an informative...

cloud nine review - topsy turvy world of sex and...

Atlantic Theater Company,modern YorkSex has rarely been less erotic than in this revival of Caryl...

trust review - making a drama out of a capitalist...

Gate,LondonThe exuberant pessimism of Falk Richter’s play might be hard to swallow, but Jude...

harold and maude review - a honking seal cant save...

Charing Cross theatre,LondonThere’s witty live music and convincing performances by Sheila Hancock...

theres a real humiliation i feel: the struggle for...

Despite tall ticket prices,many actors are still fighting for pay equity, with negotiations ongoing...

tanztheater wuppertal pina bausch review - a...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonInstead of raging battles of the sexes, the men are gallant and the women...

partus review - the agony and euphoria of...

Crucible,SheffieldThird Angel’s demonstrate approximately women’s experiences of birth is based...

somersaults in six inch heels: the punishing world...

They start as young as nine and wear costumes so lavish,heavy and painful some of them faint. As...

want to be a theatre director? here are my 10 top...

I adore my job,but theatre is a tough commerce to break into. My advice is hone your entreprenuerial...

lesley sharp webchat - post your questions now

Currently winning rave reviews for her role in Simon Stephens’ version of The Seagull,Lesley Sharp...

jump first, ask later review: parkour stage show...

Western Sydney street acrobatics troupe Dauntless Movement Crew delivers an earnest but...

tamzin outhwaite webchat - as it happened

The former EastEnders star is back in the West End,and she came in to talk approximately...

teen riots and cemetery circus: london...

US drag artist Taylor Mac,an empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were...

the truth still hurts: the enduring gallows humour...

Martin McDonagh’s play approximately the abolition of the death penalty in 1960s England hangs out...

rachel cusks medea: a lesson in gender politics...

As the response to the Almeida’s updated take on Euripides has shown,some audiences and critics...

the seven rages of david mamet: genius or symbol...

With his weaponised dialogue and hypnotic macho characters,no writer has so relentlessly confronted...

women in crisis: what medea and phaedra teach us...

Ancient texts maintain a cosmic way of speaking to people in our time: for instance,a modern York...

the taming of the shrew review - plenty of spunk,...

Shakespeare in the Park,New YorkAn all-female version of Shakespeare’s problem play starts with a...

motown the musical review - berry gordy show is a...

Shaftesbury theatre,London The point to’s 50 songs are set aside across with plenty of pizzazz but...

queen anne review - pain and passion of a monarchs...

The Swan,Stratford-upon-AvonThe queen’s relationship with Sarah Churchill (an icily seductive...

evening at the talk house review - wallace shawn...

Dorfman,LondonIn his blunt new play, set in a genteel private club, and Shawn tackles political...

taylor mac review - 24 hour long pop show is...

Lasting an entire day and night with no breaks,Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music...

the owl who was afraid of the dark review - a...

Unicorn theatre,LondonParts of the narration may fly over the heads of its youngest watchers, but...

the joke review - an englishman, irishman and...

Camden People’s theatre,LondonWill Adamsdale, Lloyd Hutchinson and Brian Logan find themselves...

dominic west webchat - as it happened

The star of The Wire,The Affair and now Les Liaisons Dangereuses talked approximately McNulty’s...

contained review - defiantly trashing the myths of...

Gulbenkian theatre,CanterburyMind the Gap theatre group joyously celebrate the triumphs of people...

the bear review - move over war horse, this polar...

Polka theatre,LondonAdapted from Raymond Briggs’s picture book, this enchanting production is...

liam williams on caroline aherne: the bambi eyed...

The Royle Family,with its comfy-caustic scripts, brought my household together like no other show...

hold on to me darling review - troubles of a...

Atlantic Theatre Company,unique YorkKenneth Lonergan once again explores the hypocrisy (Pretending...

taking the plunge: new ways of talking about...

Forget panel squabbles in a stuffy room – for our debate in the A Nation’s Theatre series,we...

plan your weeks theatre: top tickets

Top London productions such as Oresteia and degree for degree are coming to a close,but nationwide...

the glass menagerie review - too intent on its own...

Nuffield theatre,Southampton Design for Ultz turns Tennessee Williams’s memory play into a film...

total recall: performers on learning their parts -...

Tanya Moodie attacks the script with her highlighters,Pétur Jónasson starts at the end of a score...

yoni ki raat (night of the vagina): south asian...

Inspired by The Vagina Monologues,10 South Asian and Indo-Caribbean women shared intimate narratives...

poverty porn: how middle class theatres depict...

Plays such as Boy,Re:Home and Yen serve up downtrodden lives for wealthy audiences – and can verge...

first night, last chance? why theatre is a...

It looks a million dollars and has a mighty premise. But what’s it approximately? Don’t worry...

dancer vanessa vince pang: the audience s energy...

On tour,Phoenix Dance Theatres performers can play several characters in a single night – you lose...

we need to make inclusivity in theatre proper...

Work by BME or disabled writers is too often treated as niche. Theatres enjoy to commit to...

matthew bourne: why i love angela lansbury

‘Acting is tough and she’s the real thing – she’s 89 and still looking forward’Angela...

troilus and cressida review - searingly modern...

Public Theater,New YorkThere is something deeply gratifying approximately seeing these characters,...

west side story: how shakespeare stormed americas...

Whether his plays were performed on a whaling ship,up a redwood tree or by a burlesque dancer, the...

a great feast of languages: lets liberate...

Director Jatinder Verma on Tara Arts’ multicultural production of Troilus and Cressida,which...

signing shakespeare: his plays let us show the...

For director Paula Garfield,translating Love’s Labour’s Lost into British sign language was a...

i used to think booing was healthy. now it s out...

The threshold has fallen so low that performers who live every day with fear of failure are being...

tony blair recalls dire standup attempts and his...

The former prime minister tells Matt Forde that his attempt at comedy as a university student is a...

character building and what makes a truly great...

What makes an actor truly powerful? The actor's job is to bring a scripted character to life....

laugh to deal with pain: hari kondabolu finds...

The comedian who has forged a career tackling race politics has a new album that takes on Black...

things i know to be true review - powerful debut...

A collaboration between Australia and the UK,the family drama is tender, physical and deeply...

dance of death review - strindbergs psychological...

Citizens theatre,GlasgowThis claustrophobic three-hander can be electrifying but Tam Dean Burn’s...

uzo aduba webchat - as it happened

The Orange Is the modern Black actor and star of The Maids answered your questions about racial...

brian bedford obituary

Yorkshire-born actor admired for his many main Shakespearean roles and his fine interpretations of...

andrew scott webchat - post your questions now

The Sherlock and Spectre actor is next up in the play The Dazzle – and will reply your questions...

brian dennehy: my director says i have more rage...

At 76,the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O’Neill’s...

from calais to london and paris: uk writers give...

The venue that entertained the razed camp’s migrants will reopen in France – as its playwright...

hugh jackman and julia roberts among stars at...

Celebrity performances and monologues highlighted Hillary Clinton’s sway within the industry in a...

nat turner in jerusalem review - rebels last stand...

New York Theater Workshop,New York[br]A new drama imagines the slave rebellion leader’s final...

hari kondabolu: people want to laugh to deal with...

The comedian,who forged a career tackling American race politics, is going mainstream with his new...

stripping, bricklaying and flammable g strings:...

The oversharing cabaret star is back with a unusual solo show that takes in online privacy,feminism,...

new society review miranda julys nation building...

Bam,unique YorkThe artist and filmmaker’s immersive theatre piece isn’t as original as it could...

iphigenia in aulis review - an epic reinvented in...

Classic Stage Company,New YorkThis ‘transadaptation’ of a Greek tragedy by an experimental...

anne washburn: the playwright rebooting the...

Her experimental play Mr Burns was described as ‘three hours of utter hell’ by one critic –...

paul brown obituary

Prolific opera and theatre designer renowned for his inventive staging and exquisite costumesPaul...

underneath a magical moon review - peter pan...

York Theatre RoyalThe children’s favourite is brought thrillingly up to date with a string of...

aubergine review - a tender but overcooked play...

Playwrights Horizons,New YorkCan turtle soup heal the rift between a father and son? This play...

still got it - why shakespeare lives on from...

As celebrations kick off around the world – including an immersive Romeo and Juliet in a Dubai...

is denise gough s star turn the latest in theatre...

Her turn in new play Peoples,Places, Things is what the critics call a tour de force: the kind...

pause and effect: tradition of multiple intervals...

Between them,two current stagings of Ibsen and Chekhov classics offer audiences five intermissions....

anna review - lies and surveillance in communist...

Dorfman theatre,LondonElla Hickson’s inventive thriller turns the audience into spies behind a...

girls and boys review - gut wrenching carey...

Royal Court,LondonMulligan is a joy to watch as she brings her expressive powers to bear in Dennis...

feast of words: yomi sode and the theatre poets...

Like Kate Tempest and Inua Ellams,the Nigerian-born performer is breaking current ground with Coat,...

it can t happen here: a demagogue rises, but the...

Berkeley Repertory Theater,CaliforniaA Sinclair Lewis novel about the rise of a dictator has been...

baby show review - peekaboo performance enchants...

Unicorn theatre,LondonThis garden-set solo show fascinates 10-month-aged Laurie, who claps, and...

bed time review - gymnastic silliness targets...

Burton Taylor Studio,Oxford[br]By aiming solely to amuse six-and-unders, this show approximately the...

david cregan obituary

Playwright associated with the Royal Court and Orange Tree theatresThough the playwright David...

reece shearsmith webchat - as it happened

The League of Gentleman actor – who is currently appearing in unique play Hangmen –answered your...

theatre radical ellen mcdougall: it s possible to...

Part of a new wave of British theatre directors in thrall to form rather than text,McDougall is now...

down the dock road review - bleasdales waterfront...

Royal Court,LiverpoolThis drama approximately corruption among Liverpool dockers is as powerful as...

the young king review - an inventive and...

Level Five of Myer Centre Adelaide,Adelaide festivalAlthough it comes with a complicated allegory...

bbc young dancer finalist vidya patel: your feet...

The rising dance star on the exchange of ideas in her collaboration with Richard Alston,kathak’s...

gruff rhys: some songs need a music video, some...

The Welsh singer-songwriter has turned his 2007 solo album Candylion into a colourful Christmas...

dick whittington and his cat review - deliciously...

Wilton’s Music corridor,London Roy Hudd plays his first pantomime dame – amid a medley of...

lawrence and chekhov: reimagined or violated?

fresh projects at the National Theatre and Chichester Festival theatre considerably rework the...

roland rees obituary

main director in fringe and touring theatre who co-founded the stage company Foco Novo,which...

richard johnson obituary

Stage and screen actor whose good looks and rich voice captivated audiences for 60 yearsRichard...

richard wilson: for a long time i thought tony...

Richard Wilson talks approximately directing Sarah Kane’s Blasted,the ghost of Victor Meldrew and...

the funeral director review - sex, death and...

Southwark Playhouse,LondonIman Qureshi’s award-winning play examines Islamic attitudes to same-sex...

faith healer review - judy davis directs colin...

Belvoir St theatre,SydneyIn a series of equally impressive and moving monologues, Brian Friel’s...

suzan lori parks: people in america are often...

The daughter of a Vietnam vet,Suzan-Lori Parks has now written an epic trilogy set during the...

karagula review - jfk rituals and snowglobe...

Styx,LondonPhilip Ridley’s three-hours-plus tangle of dystopian fantasies doesn’t lack for...

kit harington in doctor faustus: lewd, crude and...

Jamie Lloyd’s noisy production made me want to lie down in a quiet room but it’s an admirable...

beverley knight webchat - as it happened

The singer and West End star joined us to retort your questions – on everything from being a black...

jane horrocks webchat - post your questions now

The shrimp Voice actor is covering 80s hits in her recent show If You Kiss Me Kiss Me,and will join...

in the calais jungle, art gives refugees a voice....

Volunteering with refugees at the Good Chance theatre,I’ve seen first hand the shelter it offers....

national dance awards: rosie kay and crystal pite...

Kay’s 5 Soldiers and Pite’s Polaris are among the shows recognised in a strong year for women at...

colour blind casting: how far have we really come?

A black Hamlet and a black King Lear will appear on main stages this year,but new research reveals...

chris wiegands top 10 stage shows of 2015

Unruly choirgirls,an unhinged Kirsty Young and Kinshasa’s rebellious Sapeurs feature in our Stage...

grants for the arts dont get to the heart of...

Are applications for funding judged by criteria that overlook the real reasons that people make art...

you me bum bum train: my trip with the kafkaesque...

The secretive immersive-theatre sensation is back for another sellout run. It’s an uplifting and...

the waiting is over: brian cox and bill paterson...

Their paths have crossed throughout their acting careers,but Brian Cox and Bill Paterson will...

eugenius! review - mark hamill is a robot called...

The Other Palace,LondonA school nerd escapes the bullies but meets a murderous movie mogul in an...

professor brian cox live: its a bracing feeling...

Royal & Derngate,NorthamptonDizzying cosmology show provides workout for the brain, with one piece...

rae smith on all s well that ends well:...

In our series to notice the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death,stage designer Rae Smith...

bah, humbug! how christmas theatre is turning off...

Complex writing,leftfield family shows and thoroughly bleak dramas make theatre stages far from...

the dazzle review - andrew scott is hypnotic in...

Found 111 theatre,LondonThis account of two society brothers turned recluses is an extraordinary...

inside the guardian: michael billington on the...

Michael Billington has been a Guardian theatre critic for more than 40 years. He talks approximately...

signs of life: how deaf theatre can reinvigorate...

In productions like Can I Start Again Please and Grounded,sign language is thrillingly folded into...

flare path review - conflict and passion, tidily...

Richmond theatre,London [br]A well set aside together production of Terence Rattigans 1942 play...

dixon place: new york citys queer theater haven

It has hosted one of the world’s longest-running LGBTQ festivals and after 30 years,Dixon Place...

the 306: dawn review - an emotive tribute to the...

Dalcrue farm,PitcairngreenIn a field in Perthshire at dawn, this spine-tingling music-theatre piece...

damian lewis as antony in julius caesar: friends,...

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death,we asked leading actors to perform key...

tamzin outhwaite webchat - post your questions now

The former EastEnders star is back on the West close,and will retort your questions in a live...

robert newman: the brain show review - chewy neuro...

Soho theatre,LondonDissing improper science, capitalists and Brian Cox, and Newman’s low-octane...

dancing for pina bausch: were screaming and crying...

Tanztheater Wuppertals Fernando Suels Mendoza on what he learned from the great German choreographer...

a life in theatre with david hare guardian live...

At a Guardian Live event in London,David Hare, a titan of British political theatre for over four...

royal new zealand ballet review - de frutoss love...

Linbury Studio,London[br]Wild, muscular dance meets deft use of Maori music in Javier De Frutos’s...

ryan oneal and ali macgraw: fame is brutal for...

The pair who shot to fame in the 1970 weepie fancy Story occupy reunited to play another...

joy ride: lives of the theatricals by john lahr...

The former original Yorker theatre critic imparts a holy fervour to his reviews,but his preachy,...

romola garai webchat - as it happened

The actor is starring in Measure for Measure this autumn,and joined us to acknowledge your questions...

roller review - its theatre as full contact sport...

The Pit,LondonCurrent events cast a timely light on this funny, gripping story of oppression, or...

shining city review - ghosts wreak vengeance on...

Irish Repertory Theater,fresh YorkA therapist and his patient are haunted by guilt and psychic...

the bard goes bare: the tempest performed naked in...

To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday and to promote normalisation of nudity,an all-women group are...

a war photographers image of hell - recreated in a...

Paul Watson’s photo of a US soldier’s corpse being desecrated by a mob in Somalia won him the...

whats your name and what do you do? standups need...

The token opening of a comedy set even in its postmodern guise – is becoming tired and...

red speedo review - a poolside doping drama with...

New York Theatre Workshop,New York, New YorkBeginning with the discovery of performance enhancing...

between the razor wire and the riot police: the...

They fled violence and found squalor. But the favorable Chance theatre is providing escape – just...

all the worlds a stage: how theatre fell in love...

From Gypsy to Harlequinade and The Moderate Soprano,London’s theatres are awash with shows...

the emperor review - majestic kathryn hunter gives...

Young Vic,LondonHunter is a strutting minister one minute and the emperor’s pillow-bearer the next...

takarazuka chicago review - all female japanese...

Lincoln middle Festival,novel YorkThe Kander and Ebb musical gets a novel lease of life and a kitsch...

laura carmichael as portia: the quality of mercy -...

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death,we asked main actors to perform key speeches...

liverpool everymans resident actors could become...

Gemma Bodinetz’s plans for a multi-skilled,community-based company with a 50:50 gender split is a...

scottish independence? in theatre, its long...

Diverse and democratic,theatre in Scotland is largely unburdened by the class system that defines...

southern comfort review - touching trans themed...

Public Theatre,unusual YorkThough the plot falters, this is an important show in its conviction that...

the power of shame: why measure for measure is...

degree for degree has been staged three times in London this year. It goes to reveal just how...

theatres must stop discriminating against parents

From pregnancy onwards the industry turns its back on mothers,claim campaigners. Then there’s the...

the christians review a mature and elusive play...

Playwrights Horizons,New YorkA play approximately a charismatic pastor who has had a revelation that...

romola garai webchat - post your questions now

The actor is starring in degree for degree this autumn – and is joining us to reply your questions...

couples therapy? partners play out their...

Theatre companies Made in China and Action Hero are couples off stage,collaborators on it. But its...

vietgone review - high energy triumph is welcome...

Manhattan Theatre ClubAn exclusively Asian cast,whose members also take on white roles, brings humor...

billie piper webchat - post your questions now

The popstar turned actor will join us for a live webchat on Wednesday 13 July,from 1pm BST – post...

the bbc has made a crisis out of regional theatre

The Beeb’s On Stage strand of programmes approximately regional venues is well-meaning but...

peter o toole: the definitive biography by robert...

‘No blood,no show’ – he outlived most of his drinking companions, but his rich, or declamatory...

notes from the field review - a one woman study of...

Anna Deavere Smith’s latest might be flawed,but there’s enough energy and arouse to originate...

my fair lady review - julie andrews re creates...

Joan Sutherland theatre,Sydney Opera HouseOpera Australia puts on a 60th anniversary crowd-pleaser...

paterson joseph as shylock: you call me...

To stamp the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death,we asked leading actors to perform key...

robert schenkkan on lbj: people loved or hated...

The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s All the Way,which premieres as a biopic on HBO next month,...

every one review - devastating drama of a family...

Battersea Arts Centre,LondonIts not an easy watch but Chris Goode’s rewarding revival of Jo...

uzo aduba webchat - post your questions now

The star of The Maids and Orange is the unique Black is joining us to answer your questions in a...

dominic west webchat - post your questions now

The star of The Wire,The Affair and now Les Liaisons Dangereuses is joining us for a live webchat at...

reece shearsmith webchat - post your questions...

The League of Gentleman actor is appearing in original play Hangmen – and joining us to respond...

another dose of viagra? nicole kidman to return to...

Nicole Kidman,whose West halt debut in 1998 was described as ‘pure theatrical Viagra’, is to...

broadway in 2017: box office records broken under...

Political themes inevitably emerged alongside star turns from Bette Midler and Kevin Kline but...

theatre is coming to terms with its diversity...

The outcry over the all-white cast of In the Depths of Dead cherish is a sign of shifting attitudes....

the game review - true stories of sex work...

The Powerhouse,Brisbane[br]In the recent production from Dublin’s Theatreclub, five volunteer men...

zawe ashton as jacques in as you like it: all the...

To designate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares death,we asked leading actors to perform key...

beverley knight webchat - post your questions now

The singer and West halt star is joining us to reply your questions in a live webchat from 1pm...

they cannot be serious: why comics tend to make...

One-time Blackadder buffoon Hugh Laurie was on devilish form in The Night Manager but it’s a...

bright star review - sweet, bluegrass tinged story...

Cort Theatre,modern YorkDespite its impressive cast and soundtrack, Steve Martin’s tale of an...

live screenings have changed theatre - but they...

Broadcasts of major productions are favorite with audiences and deserve applause. Now we need proper...

stories for the starlit sky review - daniel kitson...

Royal Lyceum,EdinburghWith three wobbly-hearted shows in one tedious-burning evening, ever-amusing...

show boat: the classic musical still shipshape...

Through intelligent handling of its racial themes,Daniel Evans’s revival has steered this...

our gracie review - fieldss dreams come to life in...

Coliseum,OldhamThis revue-style tribute to Dame Gracie Fields wastes little time in celebrating the...

gemma arterton webchat - post your questions now

The British actor,currently starring in Nell Gwynn in the West terminate, will answer your questions...

white rabbit red rabbit review - nathan lane at...

Westside Theater,New YorkNassim Soleimanpour’s play has a different performer every night, each...

shibari: pushing boundaries in the ancient...

Daniel Kok and Luke George explore the fragile rules of submission and domination in shibari while...

politicians and comedy: a rather funny business

Donald Trump tried to be witty on Saturday Night Live,Barack Obama has honed his own standup style...

time of women review - belarus free theatre probe...

Young Vic,LondonThe role of women in the opposition to the Belarus dictatorship is explored through...

nell gwynn review - this is what a restoration era...

Shakespeares Globe,LondonGugu Mbatha-Raw’s joyful performance is at the centre of this rowdy...

going solo: how the one person show is gazing...

Solo shows can be an excuse for cost-cutting,showing off or solipsism – but fresh examples are...

rob brydon webchat - as it happened

The impression-addicted actor joined us to reply your questions – find out his favourite swimming...

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