Tron theatre, Glasgow Frances Poet’s music-driven drama reconstructs the Greenock dispute that saw 240 workers square up to bosses It was the early days of the Thatcher project. At the sta…
Wicked star’s one-woman West End show was stopped in response to an increasingly common problem for theatresA performance of Dracula in the West End on Monday night was halted after its st…
Avant-garde theater legend Robert Wilson’s final work was a bold reimagining of Melville’s classic. His collaborators explain bringing it to the Brooklyn stageNot far into Herman Melvill…
UK artist Linett Kamala was astonished to see a maypole in a Jamaican hamlet – a colonial relic, but one bringing joy. So she reinvented the tradition by ditching English folk tunes and ad…
They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents from Europe’s last dictatorship are bringing the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of brutal repression to the world…
Hampstead theatre, LondonA bond slowly builds between wildlife photographer Tim and his apprentice Marcus in David Pearson’s tender yet underdeveloped dramaA young aspiring wildlife photog…
Palace Theatre, New YorkJoel Schumacher’s much-loved movie gets a splashy stage transfer which might be technically impressive but the songs never come to lifeBrand-dependent mega-musicals…
He found roaring success on Broadway with Torch Song Trilogy, then appeared in blockbusters Mrs Doubtfire and Independence Day. But notoriety had a cost. The 73-year-old stage legend talks r…
Hannah Khalil’s new play sprang from her surprise at seeing the great Egyptian actor had performed at the Festival theatre in the 1980s. She explains how it entwined with a story of her mi…
Acclaimed stage and screen actor has taken part in Washington DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library residency program during a troubling time for the CapitolAddressing an audience at the Folger …
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonAt 67, the mercurial Lecavalier is in the I’ll-do-whatever-I-want phase of her career, choreographing solos that are worlds away from cosy retirementLouise Lec…
Riverside Studios, LondonJeffrey Longford is pedantic and superior in Farine Clarke’s medical drama – griping at everything from hospital data systems to gender-neutral loosHeartsinks, i…
Soho theatre, LondonChristopher Brett Bailey reads his surreal novella and freewheels his way through extreme vice, erotic tension and dulled indifferenceNo one tells a story like Christophe…
Ethel Barrymore theatre, New YorkDebbie Allen’s revival of the 1984 drama boasts a compelling cast, led by Taraji P Henson and Cedric the Entertainer, but too many notes are offEarlier thi…
Kiln theatre, LondonTom Wright’s play explores how the Fab Four, and a rumoured affair with John Lennon, helped shape the manager’s tragically short lifeAt the age of 30, the Beatles’s…
Marylebone theatre, London A tremendous cast lifts what might have been a formulaic drama into a compelling examination of contested memoryArthur Miller is evidently speaking to the moment. …
The South African-born New Zealand comedian reflects on how her traumatic childhood shaped her humour and refusing to roast her 13-year-old daughter’s friendsGet our weekend culture and li…
Actor and writer who confronted his motor neurone disease diagnosis in his work, and went on to play Richard III When Michael Patrick became the first actor in Ireland’s theatrical history…
My colleague and friend Susan Chlopicki, who has died aged 59 of lung cancer, was a comedian, activist and charity worker. As a standup she performed across the UK and her written work was f…
Royal Court theatre, LiverpoolWriter-actor Aron Julius captures the sparkling charm of Liverpudlian fighter John Conteh in a punch-by-punch account of his careerDon King is singing the prais…
The former Casualty actor wrote Driftwood – a family drama set against the backdrop of Trinidadian independence – as a private act after reconnecting with her roots. It was like solving …
The parents of a school shooter meet those of a victim in the film Mass, which is now a play. It explores the bitter proposition – and extraordinary sacrifice – of restorative justiceThe…
Studio 54, New YorkThe 1973 cult favorite is back with a stacked cast, including Juliette Lewis, Luke Evans and Rachel Dratch, but only flashes of genuine funRichard O’Brien’s The Rocky …
New Wolsey theatre, Ipswich Vikki Stone’s freely adapted version of the once notorious seafaring broadcaster’s history is a terrrific premise for delivering a…
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonDeft production follows six friends as they morph from truth-blurting children into weary midlifers in effortless and capable performancesRead Virginia Woolf’s…