Southbank Centre to host Isabella Rossellini performing with her pet dog and Isabelle Huppert reading from the Marquis de SadeTwo celebrated European actors are taking one-woman shows to Lon…
Playwright's producer urged him to write Bitter Wheat about the Hollywood mogul facing allegations of sexual harassmentDavid Mamet has revealed that he has written a play about Harvey Weinst…
The playwright, a passionate supporter of the health service, has set Allelujah! in a beleaguered Pennines hospitalAlan Bennett is to explore life in a Yorkshire hospital threatened with clo…
The star will reprise 'superb' performance in a transfer of Jonathan Munby's acclaimed Chichester Festival theatre productionIan McKellen is to star in London's West End as King Lear, repris…
The London production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical surpasses The Book of Mormon as it hikes premium ticket pricesPremium seats for the London production of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Mi…
Owner says it is time to hand historic playhouse over to 'next generation of dream-makers'London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, which has staged premieres of Oscar Wilde plays and was John Gielg…
The Oscar-winning actor will play smooth lawyer Billy Flynn as the prohibition-era musical returns to the West End in MarchThe Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr is to make his British stag…
The star of France's premier crime drama talks about appearing in Ivo van Hove's bold take on A View from the Bridge and her determination to avoid typecastingIn a bar around the corner from…
The dark comedy foursome are to hit the road, taking new show to 'all the wonderful local places in our increasingly local country'Their three forthcoming reunion specials for the BBC are am…
CentrE17, LondonReggae songs, monkey puppets and a duet with a mop all add up to a surreal show for two- to five-year-olds My daughter Hilda is four, her favourite number is five and she can…
Enda Walsh to adapt Max Porter's acclaimed novel about love, art and bereavement for Complicité theatre company's Irish productionCillian Murphy is to star in an Irish stage version of Max …
As Lindsay Lohan prepares to make her West End debut in Speed-the-Plow, can you guess if these lines come from Mean Girls or David Mamet's plays?"I'm wearing a spinal halo." Mean GirlsMamet"…
Eight women describe alleged cases of historic harassment against director who called for search for 'Weinstein of British theatre'A leading director who called for a search for "the Weinste…
Musical comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement reunite for a string of live dates after solo roles in Hollywood and on TVOK, band meeting! The Flight of the Conchords have announced th…
A star-studded new West End production of Harold Pinter's classic play, directed by Ian Rickson, is scheduled for 2018It was famously savaged by theatre critics who dismissed it as "puzzling…
A limited number of tickets at the National Theatre's production will allow audiences to watch the play from onstage restaurantIts intense plot may be enough to give anyone indigestion, but …
The star of Marvel's blockbuster is the subject of his father's comedy show at the Edinburgh fringe. They discuss the art of getting laughs, sending Spidey back to school and finding the old…
A puppet blockbuster, a Bigfoot opera and a Northern Soul dance marathon all feature in the lineup of the 70th Edinburgh festivalEdinburgh Playhouse Continue reading...
Artistic director and founder cites lack of increase in Arts Council England support for decision to leave the Yorkshire company next AprilBarrie Rutter is to step down as artistic director …
The Guardian's pioneering dramatic collaboration inspired by last year's EU referendum offers characters who lay bare our complex national responses A year on from last summer's Brexit vote,…
As the Guardian launches Brexit Shorts, a series of online films about the seismic effects of the EU referendum, playwrights David Hare and Abi Morgan assess the UK's political turmoilNine l…
To mark the Globe's 20th birthday, we raid the Guardian archives to see how it has divided critics, sparked academic arguments, faced down political protests " and weathered the British summ…
Toyah Willcox plays the time-travelling Elizabeth I in the Royal Exchange's version of the film that caused outrage after 1977's silver jubileeDerek Jarman's anarchic punk film Jubilee is to…
Labour of Love, to be staged in the West End, is the latest political play by the dramatist who has also written two short scripts about Brexit for the GuardianMartin Freeman and Sarah Lanca…
Welsh director was best known for The Romans in Britain, which led to an obscenity trial, and for co-founding the English Shakespeare CompanyMichael Bogdanov, the bold theatre director who s…