Eight big-name actors are rebooting the award-winning love story Constellations in London's West End. The first couple discuss their parallel careers - and their hotly disputed encounter as …
Pleasance, LondonThe playwright only wanted men to perform Waiting for Godot " Silent Faces ask why half the world's population is excluded in a funny, pop-culture show If you see it through…
Joseph's soca-saturated play about three young women losing themselves to the best and worst at Notting Hill carnival parades into the West End and on to our screens In the summer of 2019 a …
It was meant to provide theatres with a lifeline during Covid. But livestreaming is now giving them extraordinary reach. Can it be sustained " and could it turn out to be a new existential t…
Falstaff, Mistress Quickly and the fairy rulers of A Midsummer Night's Dream helped the author through a traumatic childhood and feature in her memoir No Boys Play Here Sally Bayley was abou…
Writers and artists including RóisÃn Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown There have been many notable nightclubs in film…
Available onlineThe Old Vic's Zoom-broadcast version of the Dickens classic is full of heart " and pulls back the curtain on Covid-era theatre Three years ago, Matthew Warchus's production o…
Barbican Art Gallery, LondonThe Scottish dance iconoclast married extraordinary technique with boundless imagination " and his work is as provocative as ever It's one of time's more backhand…
After years of struggling on Broadway, the writer, actor and director takes aim at New York's theatre establishment in her hit film The Forty-Year-Old Version There's a moment in The Forty-Y…
Tom Stoppard's new play was enjoying a sold-out run when venues closed. Its producer, Sonia Friedman, recalls how the crisis unfolded Leopoldstadt in limbo: Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marber and …
Hay Festival DigitalWith inimitable style Smith excavates a common pun and, illustrated by film clips, explores the transformative power of a single word The best arts and entertainment dur…
Since his electrifying breakthrough as a hip-hopping Hamlet, the actor hasn't stopped. He talks about overcoming challenges and his role in the provocative new BBC series from the creator of…
Bush theatre, LondonRagevan Vasan and Emily Stott star as a couple pulled apart by their backgrounds in this play by slam poet Zia Ahmed The question of how to build intimacy across the div…
National Theatre, LondonNiamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack perform the central roles with magnetic force in this frenetically comic adaptation of Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet At the start…
Forget trying to saw Debbie McGee in half " some conjurers are using their skills to help surgeons, refugee children and even imagine a better future What image does the word "magic" conjure…
As she prepares to direct an unstaged script by the late pirate queen of counterculture, theatre-maker Kate Valk recalls how they met " and how she dealt with Acker's challenging attitude to…
Stoller Hall, Manchester; The Lowry, SalfordMaxine Peake is a woman possessed in The Nico Project, while Ivo van Hove adapts Ayn Rand's controversial novelHow can The Nico Project excavate a…
Survivors of addiction have taken over a shop in Bournemouth to stage Secret Voices. Their raw and harrowing stories show the holiday town in a new light Two men circle each other in a salt-…
Phoenix, LondonMaking a song and dance of how Newfoundland took in thousands of diverted passengers after the World Trade Center attack is fun up to a point There's a lot to love about Come …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Bridge; Royal Court, LondonAdjoa Andoh leads a powerfully resonant Richard II; Harriet Lane's bestseller thrills less on stage; and jolts mix with jollity in a women…
Why was Ben Okri so keen to adapt L'Étranger, Albert Camus's dark novel about the killing of an Arab, for the stage? He talks about his battle with the French writer's daughter, his days…
Barbican, LondonThe 1971 debate on feminism is deconstructed in an almost pitch-perfect Wooster Group productionOn 30 April 1971, Norman Mailer squared up to feminism in a public debate at N…
The Swan Hotel, Hay-on-WyeOwen Sheers' evocative one-hander paints a fascinating picture of Keith Douglas and places his breathtaking prose centre-stageSince playing Wilfred Owen in a 20th-a…
From the RSC to the ROH, Britain's most prestigious arts institutions are all by royal appointment. But as Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle, is it goodbye Royal Variety Show and hello Roya…
The Other Palace, LondonThe showbiz veteran recovers from a shaky start to deliver a heartrending solo cabaret that melds the personal and politicalNever has a show been more aptly named. Ka…