Stage adventure of JK Rowling's grown-up wizard prepares to refresh its lineup, while Broadway production is in the worksThe new cast has been announced for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child…
Duke of York's theatre, LondonA puppet Peppa and her family have fun around the house in a touring stage version that stays close to the TV series and gets the kids singing and giggling "Exc…
How do you capture the spirit of Lisbon? With a show featuring fado, sunbathing dancers and an enigmatic walrus. The Tanztheater Wuppertal star recalls making Masurca FogoIt's bitterly cold …
Katherine Soper awarded £16,000 and residency at Royal Exchange for 'first proper play' about mental health and changes to the benefits systemThe UK's biggest playwriting competition has …
Joanna Lumley plays Viola, David Threlfall is Prospero and Daniel Mays sees a dagger before him in our latest set of videos to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's deathSix more fi…
Critically panned but hugely popular jukebox musical to close doors after 4,600 performances at Dominion theatreTwelve years after it opened, the Queen and Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You…
The great Shakespearean answered your questions on his extraordinary careerSimon Russell Beale joined us to talk about tackling King Lear " a mountain of a role, as Peter Brook once called i…
Choreographer behind Pan's People, the dance troupe loved by Top of the Pops fansWhen 15 million viewers tuned into Top of the Pops each week during the show's 1970s heyday, the appeal exten…
Rice will follow Mark Rylance and Dominic Dromgoole in top job at the theatre when she takes over in April 2016The job description demanded "visionary and charismatic leadership", the abilit…
Homeland and Wolf Hall star will appear in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? at Theatre Royal Haymarket in spring 2017Damian Lewis is to star in the second West End revival of an Edward Albee play…
The filthy comedy " a hit for the BBC this summer " will be staged at the venue where it first started out as a monologueFleabag, this year's breakout TV anti-heroine, is returning to the th…
Little Angel theatre, London A companion piece to the puppet theatre's autumn show Emily Rising delivers some escapist fun for the under-sixes Shakera Ahad is one of the busiest puppeteers w…
Hull Truck's A Taste of Honey, starring Shameless's Rebecca Ryan, is the second major revival this year of Shelagh Delaney's hugely influential debut. As Morrissey once observed, "At least 5…
Once in a Lifetime leads Young Vic season that includes a 'grownup' Midsummer Night's Dream and a new show devised by sex workersHarry Enfield is to make his theatrical debut in a revival of…
Duncan Macmillan and 59 Productions' adaptation of Auster's innovative detective novel will have its world premiere in ManchesterCity of Glass, Paul Auster's meta-detective novel about a thr…
King's Cross theatre, LondonThe CBeebies favourite has been cast as Mr Perks in this imaginative adaptation of E Nesbit's classic " but the real star of the show pulls in later"Dad?" Six-yea…
Former nominees James Acaster and Sam Simmons, and last year's best newcomer, John Kearns, are on the seven-strong shortlist for the main prize at the Edinburgh comedy awardsEdinburgh comedy…
As he prepares to take his latest spectacular to the Edinburgh festival, the performer talks about the 'magic box' of theatre, listening to frogs' secrets and playing an acrobatic Ariel for …
Seats in a private box are promised to the first theatregoers who turn up in fishing gear " or as fish " at the Oscar-winning actor's latest West End showMark Rylance will return to London's…
Exclusive: Actor will portray Blanche DuBois in Sarah Frankcom production of Tennessee Williams playThe role was originated by Jessica Tandy, played on stage and screen by Vivien Leigh and h…
Lewis plays Antony and Ashton performs 'All the world's a stage' for our video series, which features Riz Ahmed, Laura Carmichael and Paterson JosephThe final set of films in the Guardian's …
Here are 10 striking stage directions " can you identify the plays they're taken from?"Thunder and lightning. Enter Devils with covered dishes."The CrucibleWickedDoctor Faustus"Miriam begins…
Lewis plays Antony and Ashton performs 'All the world's a stage' for our video series, which features Riz Ahmed, Laura Carmichael and Paterson JosephThe final set of films in the Guardian's …
London's powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre's key productions through extracts from the Guardian and Observer archive, alon…
The X-Men stars will take their revival of the Harold Pinter classic to Sheffield, Newcastle, Brighton and Cardiff before a London run with some £10 ticketsSeven years after they waited f…