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The great Shakespearean shares his passion project, there's a sneak peek of Sam Ryder's Jesus Christ Superstar and Back to the Future: The Musical hits reverse
When stages went dark during t…
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterSparring lovers play a capricious game in Blanche McIntyre's revival " but the cut and thrust is kept witty, rather than curdling into danger
In director Bl…
National theatre, LondonA queenly Lesley Manville steals the show in this dark, rageful tale of seduction as contact sport
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was serving as an artillery officer whil…
Tron, GlasgowThe life-and-death choices that a stressed-out nurse faces on a short-staffed weekend are taken to gothic heights in this intense, atmospheric play
The standard colour scheme fo…
Unicorn theatre, London The Unicorn and RSC's accessible adaptation is at its best in comic set pieces " even if the pared-down plot still feels cluttered
How to make Shakespeare accessible …
The rapper was hospitalized in New York City after feeling unwell during her Moulin Rouge performance on Broadway
Megan Thee Stallion was taken to the hospital on Tuesday in New York City af…
Championed by a former chief medical officer, Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming's discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the pr…
Other winners include Inter Alia's Rosamund Pike, Ivo van Hove for All My Sons and Hayley Atwell who beat her Much Ado co-star Tom Hiddleston to best Shakespearean performance
Brendan Gleeso…
London PalladiumThe musical-theatre megastars fall in and out of love, in opposing timelines, in a stirring production of Jason Robert Brown's musical
After her electrifying Evita, Rachel Ze…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotA reluctant return to the valleys brings a reckoning with a violent past and problematic present in Katie Payne's vivid and raw monologue
Playwright Kati…
Royal Court theatre, LondonA class on The Crucible unearths troubling parallels for a group of teen girls in Kimberly Belflower's play set in the wake of the Weinstein scandal
Kimberly Belfl…
Film and theatre producer who made The Audience the starting point for The Crown, and was behind Another Country, The Lady in the Van, Iris and Notes on a Scandal
Scion of one of the great t…
In this week's newsletter: From singers to YouTube stars and TV hosts, more famous faces are treading the boards. Some insiders think it's killing the industry, but for others it opens up th…
Bristol Old VicThe Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations
A classical actor who appeared in a recen…
Barbican Centre, LondonFrom Stavros to Wayne Slob, Loadsamoney to DJ Dave Nice, the 64-year-old distilled whole characters and social types
To younger audiences, Harry Enfield may be best kn…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonJocelyn Bioh's comedy " following a day in the life of a Harlem braiding salon " is filled with humour and hijinks
'Don't touch my hair" is a racially-charged statem…
Finborough theatre, LondonIrritable passions ferment beneath the frowsty knits and beads in atmospheric 1935 psychological thriller
Lonely lives, falling between the gaps, are at the heart o…
Their shows caused mayhem. Now Tamm Reynolds " AKA Midgitte Bardot " is really going for the jugular, hitting back at prejudice with a wild new act
Most performers want attention when the…
King's Head theatre, LondonThe media tycoon comes up against union boss Brenda Dean in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's docudrama about the 80s Wapping dispute
A teacher in Alan Bennett's The …
London ColiseumSuperbly cast, the dancer brings stratospheric levels of charisma to a rather pedestrian show driven by Cyndi Lauper's songs
Johannes Radebe (AKA Jojo from Strictly) is a born…
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe's pure chemistry perfectly encapsulates the urgent and uncompromising nature of first love
Has the conveyor belt from screen-to-stage celebrity turned full circle wh…
August Wilson Theatre, New YorkA splashy new production inspired by the real-life 1970s bank robbery stars Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach
The story of Dog Day Afternoon is so familiar t…
The star of stage and screen has died aged 79. We look back at her memorable film and theater roles, public appearances and marriage to Paul Schrader Continue reading...
New work will be choreographed and directed by Benoit Swan Pouffer, artistic director of Rambert, with Davies and Pet Shop Boys serving as executive producers
It's a Sin, the award-winning T…
York Theatre RoyalJohn Doyle's atmospheric production shrouds Frances Hodgson Burnett's story in the ghosts and secrets of the grownups at Misselthwaite Manor
In this version of Frances Hodg…