A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter Tom Stoppard: a life in pictures A b…
When the great artist saw a shocking play by Martin McDonagh about the torture of children, she asked him for more dark stories. As the vivid, extraordinary works they triggered go on show, …
Royal Court; Hampstead; Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonFiona Shaw, Adrian Lester, Toby Jones and more explore the refugee experience in an intriguing multimedia show; Christopher Hampton pe…
As a theatre production of the Nobel prize-winning writer's acclaimed autobiography The Years opens in the UK, the actors playing her at different ages " including Deborah Findlay, Gina McKe…
Bristol Old Vic; Lyric Hammersmith; Southwark Playhouse, LondonThe moving story of the invention of IVF gives space to the women affected; Alice Childress's 60s interracial romance proves re…
With the London opening of his incendiary work set to be among the theatre events of the year, the dramatist, along with the show's director and stars Kit Harington and Olivia Washington, ta…
He starred in Peep Show, Green Wing and Wonka " and his first novel won an award. Now the star is making operas with 64 homeless people. Not bad going for someone who was written off by his …
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonNetflix turned Kata Wéber and Kornél Mundruczó's play into an Oscar-nominated film. Now a world-class ensemble from Poland's TR Warszawa bring it out its nu…
Barbican, LondonThe final hours of Mary, Queen of Scots are enacted with hypnotic precision in Robert Wilson's collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville"Paris In the grand soap opera of 16t…
Rivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters Natal…
One minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix's Regency hit. And now she's blazing into the West End. But that's not nearly enough for this unstoppable star…
One minute, she decided to try acting. The next, she had a plum role in Netflix's Regency hit. And now she's blazing into the West End. But that's not nearly enough for this unstoppable star…
Death announced of writer whose searing and controversial plays included Saved and Early Morning Michael Billington on Edward Bond: a phenomenal talent who upturned theatre Edward Bond, the…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonWriter Zoe Cooper and director Tessa Walker reignite Jane Austen's early novel with hilarious physical storytelling and a fizzing cast, though the romance sputters…
As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower " and our one-star 'corker' review of T…
As he returns to the stage to play JS Bach, the actor sounds off about the mess Britain's in, explains why he turned down Game of Thrones " and reveals the price he has paid for Succession B…
The Yard, LondonJames Fritz frames a Victorian story as folk tragedy and political interrogation " exuberant in its ambition, just occasionally not quite fulfilling its potential In July 188…
Gielgud theatre, LondonA cleverly cast tribute, featuring Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga and Bonnie Langford, reflects on the passing of time with comedy and melancholy For those who know al…
Gielgud theatre, LondonHarnessing horror film conventions, Lyndsey Turner's intelligent revival conjures places where truth is a political inconvenience Seventy years after its premiere, Art…
Her singular passion lit up performances from Women in Love to King Lear and drove her 23-year middle career as an MP Michael Billington: Glenda Jackson was piercingly intelligent and unafra…
His 2003 play about child torture and freedom of speech became a global phenomenon. But will it offend today's audiences? The writer-director explains why he won't be changing a thing Iraq h…
Brixton House, LondonDirector Monique Touko keeps the tone lively with this tough story of Mugabe's Zimbabwe in which the actors switch race, age and gender with ease In a place called Parad…
The actor looks back over a four-decade career balancing 'serious' drama and improv comedy, describes the making of her wholly improvised new film, and explains why we don't see her on TV so…
O'Farrell's novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss exploring class, place and creativity for a play that …
Hampstead theatre, LondonTwo women disinter a trauma from their past in Michael John O'Neill's allegorical play set in an evangelical church Two sisters circle each other in the antechamber …