Three drama school productions highlight the appeal for established names in sharing passion projects with actors flexing their performance muscles 'Strap in, lads." The Scottish playwright …
You're meant to shut up, keep still and pay attention at the theatre " but what if that's a problem? We examine the rise of 'relaxed' spaces where anything goes It started with the toes. Som…
The defiant lyrics to the classic Les Misérables track are reverberating through uprisings in Hong Kong and China It has soared during an airport sit-in, united street protests and drowned …
The playwright's son used to find it excruciating when people called him 'Tom'. Now he's embracing his heritage in the deeply personal family drama Leopoldstadt It must be a nightmare. You'r…
In 1833, Britain took out a loan to compensate slave owners " only recently paid off. Juliet Gilkes Romero reveals the shameful history that inspired her play The Whip 'This gives me goosebu…
Can dancing digits really move an audience as much as real actors? Absolutely. Enter the miraculous, miniature world of Cold Blood, a dance and film show by Kiss & Cry Collective It's th…
With its defiant, irresistible, glitter-ball spirit, the La Cage aux Folles showstopper has been embraced at Pride marches and the Paralympics " and defined many a diva I was leaving a weddi…
What if Shakespeare's evil king was a scheming, disabled high school student? The creator and star of a new play talk sexuality, shame and why being teenage sucks Like its title character, …
The theatre designer on creating a family dinner at Agamemnon's, an election night Oedipus and the night Fiona Shaw got stuck 'You never know anything, you can only do your best." Hildegard …
This West End musical, featuring a barmitzvah and the song Four Jews in a Room Bitching, deserved greater representation " and raises other questions about identity If this summer's spats in…
After a string of hits, the writer and director are collaborating again but The End of History, a drama based on Thorne's parents, is filling him with anxiety When Jack Thorne's wife read th…
What's the scene like in the rehearsal room in the third week? At fringe play J'Ouvert, injury leads to a frenzy. At the RSC, the actors scour footnotes. And on Captain Corelli they're in a …
These late 17th-century plays " with their sea of unfamiliar words " can be daunting for actors. But this disillusioned world speaks to our own age of uncertainty 'It's the most terrified I…
The US has a rich tradition of Jewish theatre " but in the UK it's been more circumspect. Artists from Hofesh Shechter to Tracy Ann Oberman explain why I ask the Israeli-born, British-based …
The ghostly showgirls of Follies, Wayne McGregor's spellbinding Raven Girl and the madcap world of The Cat in the Hat have all been realised by the designer, who looks back at five of her …
They have always lost out on romantic lead roles. But while glamour fades, talent endures " letting these supporting stars win the long gameWhen the actor Paul Chahidi was leaving drama scho…
As the director and playwright reunite to stage The Cane at the Royal Court, they talk about their friendship and the passion and pain behind their playsAn artistic director has no secrets f…
Leading dancer Laurretta Summerscales has said the endless repeats of crowd-pleasing classics is one reason she left the ENB. So why is it so keen on Swan Lake and The Nutcracker?How many sw…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBizet and Hammerstein get a Cuban makeover, played out here with charm and flairCarmen, the heroine of Bizet's opera, is restless. She won't be stilled or silenced. Thi…
Barbican, LondonRhiannon Faith's urgent show uses dance and participatory theatre to raise awareness about domestic violenceThis isn't your usual game of pass-the-parcel. The silver-paper pa…
When Rebecca Hall read it she couldn't breathe. After Fiona Shaw played the role she got letters full of loneliness. This is the true story behind Sophie Treadwell's trailblazing playIn 1927…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonValda Setterfield, doyenne of the New York dance scene, plays the ageing monarch in a collage of movement and textAnyone who has done time watching a theatrical k…
Superbly expressive dancer who went on to be a choreographer and movement directorA lost man and a feral swan: it's an unlikely romance. Yet the dancer and choreographer Scott Ambler created…
Home, ManchesterDirected by Bijan Sheibani, Baker's play follows five acting students whose role play reveals more than they expect'I would like to say that I write for everyone," the US pla…
From gleaming crowns to bubbling cauldrons, from pink flamingos to forklift trucks, the Royal Shakespeare Company's gigantic prop store is a place of jaw-dropping theatrical alchemy. Our wri…