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Dominic Cooke's revival of Stephen Sondheim's beautiful musical continues its run at the National, while the celebrated choreographer returns to London1 FolliesStephen Sondheim's flawed but …
The Place, LondonThe performers morph from party kids to Victorians to hipsters in Requardt & Rosenberg's subversive, surreal spectacle of death and the afterlifeChoreographer Frauke Req…
Sally Cookson's witty, inventive take on Charlotte Brontë's novel comes to Hull, while the city's New theatre reopens with a visit from the Royal's dancers1 Living With the Lights OnEarli…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe choreographer squares up to our political anxieties " and his own demons " with grace and the defiant spirit of the band who played on the TitanicGrand Finale is as…
Hamilton hits London, Bryan Cranston's news anchor goes berserk, Wayne McGregor turns his DNA into dance, Mae Martin revisits her teen addictions and Toyah Willcox is a time-travelling queen…
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's staging of the children's novel returns, while Hofesh Shechter's new show imagines an anarchic apocalypse1 War HorseWith it becoming such a huge and deserve…
Shôn Dale-Jones turns his attention to the increasing divide between rich and poor, while Requardt & Rosenberg deliver an intense performance about memory1 Me & Robin HoodIn his l…
With its locally auditioned young dancers, Matthew Bourne's touring production vividly displays the children's descent from innocence to savageryTwo tribes: Matthew Bourne's Lord of the Flie…
Zinnie Harris's retelling of Aeschylus's drama adds muscle to the tale, while As You Like It is the inspiration for James Cousins' latest choreography1 Oresteia: This Restless HouseThe exper…
Fleabag director Vicky Jones's filthily enjoyable play enters its last week at Soho theatre, while Iceland Dance Company takes over Royal Festival Hall1 TouchVicky Jones's filthily enjoyable…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghDespite past form in translating complex emotion into dance, 201 Dance Company's attempt to navigate gender-reassignment intricacies feels too tidyThere was a t…
Dance Base, EdinburghBy breaking Lady Macbeth's psyche down into three roles danced by men, Kally Lloyd-Jones fascinatingly fleshes out Shakespeare's underwritten antiheroineWhat kind of a p…
The most exciting dance is on the fringe this year, dealing with epic themes and a common inspiration of being lost or set adrift in strange placesDance has had an uneven history at the Edin…
Shakespeare's play gets a Mexican makeover in Matthew Dunster's revival, while Boy Blue Entertainment explores images of freedom in a turbulent world1 Much Ado About NothingShakespeare's pla…
One of the unexpected pleasures of last summer returns to Regent's Park, while the Finnish choreographer addresses masculinity and brutality1 The Flying Lovers of VitebskWhat is the cost of …
From the runway strut to the hoochie koochie, choreographer Trajal Harrell is turning outlaw dance forms into radical, booty-shaking spectacleThe voguing balls of Harlem, the hoochie koochie…
Fleabag director Vicky Jones returns with a candid, honest play about sex, while Russia's finest enjoy a second week at the Royal Opera House1 TouchDee is living in chaos in a bedsit in Lond…
James Graham takes on the Sun and Rupert Murdoch, while the great Russian troupe bring Don Quixote and Swan Lake to the Royal Opera House1 The FerrymanNow extended into 2018, Jez Butterworth…
Mayfield Depot, ManchesterWith capoeira kicks, pirouettes and the odd buttock scratch, Boris Charmatz's show tests the limits of how we experience danceBoris Charmatz's 10,000 Gestures can b…
The Wardrobe Ensemble looks back at the sexual fumblings of the baby boomers, while Matthew Bourne, Sisters Grimm and others visit Suffolk's arts jamboree1 1972: The Future of SexThe Wardrob…
In ETM: Double Down, the choreographer gathers breakdancers, musicians and giant electronic drum pads to hint at a thrilling future for the ever-evolving formMichelle Dorrance has been accla…
Palace theatre, ManchesterThis exhilarating revival reignites the alchemy that the choreographer and the composer found with Frank GehryThe last time that Lucinda Childs' Available Light app…
Revel in the over-the-top wackiness of the new Meat Loaf musical and take in Lucinda Childs's poetic classic of minimalist dance1 Bat Out of HellRomeo and Juliet meets Peter Pan in this dyst…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBrazilian beats steal the show in this eco-fairytale about a water sprite battling human greed in the AmazonSisters Grimm, the young production company formed by compos…
Marie Chouinard's sexually charged debut programme sees dancers locked up like zoo animals then unleashed, while Vladimir Putin is taunted with whips " and made to dance with a Nubian QueenA…