Jean-Paul Gaultier has dreamed of staging a revue ever since he saw footage of the Folies Bergère on his grandmother's TV. 'I got in trouble at school the next day because I was sketching t…
Watch theatremaker and actor Tim Crouch perform Commonwealth, a 2012 monologue written by Andy Smith, as part of the Royal Court's summer-long Open Court festival. Crouch enters from the aud…
Wicked is celebrating its 10th birthday at the Apollo Victoria theatre in London. The musical, based on Gregory Maguire's novel, presents the untold story of the good and wicked witches from…
The comedian, actor and News Quiz host is joining us to answer your questions from 1pm on Wednesday 21 September " post them in the comments below 4.38pm BST With his sensible jumpers and wa…
In interviews, the great American playwright Edward Albee could be as quotable as his characters. Here are 10 of his best observations I failed as a poet, a novelist, a short-story writer an…
The festival combines daring new productions with established international acts and homegrown crowd pleasersNow in his second year as artistic director of the Brisbane festival, David Berth…
Being mates these days demands endless admin. Who has time for a decent chat? Still, you can say so much with an aubergine emoji. Kerry Godliman weighs up the different expectations of male …
It is one of 2014's hottest tickets. Before A Streetcar Named Desire opens at the Young Vic tonight, take a look at Gillian Anderson's Blanche Dubois. Photographs by Tristram Kenton' From Gi…
Five years after its landmark Out of Asia season, Sadler's Wells presents a second programme of eastern choreography. From the minimalism of TAO Dance Theatre to the epic Under Siege, take a…
Maxine Peake is the latest actor to play Tennessee Williams's troubled heroine. Take a look at the other stars who have depended on the kindness of strangers Continue reading...
The star of The Wire, The Affair and now Les Liaisons Dangereuses talked about McNulty's fake English accent, Cynthia Nixon as a therapist, wearing a silver caped leotard and mountain climbi…
Director Sing J Lee and pop star Viktoria Modesta have dreamed up a bold sci-fi vision of Shakespeare's comedy, imagining a clubland encounter between Titania and Bottom. This is the seventh…
Germaine Greer appears on a Shakespeare-themed episode of the ABC's Q&A program and responds to an audience member who asks about the relevance of the playwright's work to modern Austral…
Maxine Peake returns to the Royal Exchange in Manchester this month as Blanche in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Sarah Frankcom. In this exclusive video, designed …
Sylvie Guillem will present her final dance programme at Sadler's Wells, London, in 2015. Revisit her journey from Parisian ballerina to global dance sensationJudith Mackrell on Sylvie Guill…
Masai Graham, the winner of the 2016 Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe award, repeats his one-liner on Tuesday. Graham, a care-worker from West Bromwich, said the joke about a donor card wa…
From Hoovers to badgers, here are the quips voted funniest in Dave's competition at the festival1. "I've decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust." " Tim Vine2. "I've w…
From Cambridge Footlights in 1981 to Sam Simmons in 2015, explore the history of the Edinburgh comedy awards. Find out who won, who they beat and how the art of comedy changed each year. Whe…
On Friday night, the first 24-hour passenger night tubes started to run on London Underground. BBC Three were there to capture this historic moment on the world's oldest underground metro at…
Ronnie Ancona's Gertrude serves up a bloody homecoming dinner down the Prince of Denmark pub in the seventh of the British Council films for Shakespeare Lives 2016, a global programme celebr…
Is it possible to train your cat to be vegan? Would he ever present Top Gear? And what's his beef with Piers Morgan. The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star answered your questions live - re…
The comedy channel Dave asked the public to vote on the best gags to emerge from this year's fringe festival, and here are the results Related: Top 10 jokes of the Edinburgh fringe festival …
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn moves to the music at the end of a rally in Sunderland on Friday afternoon. Corbyn used the rally in the north-eastern city to announce the creation of a 'bank of…
The American photographer, who creates hyperreal tableaux of dancers at work, talks us through the images in her new book Lois Greenfield: Moving Still is published by Thames & Hudson (U…
In her series Hold Me Closer Tiny Dancer, photographer Emily Stein captures the staged romance and dashing outfits of children's ballroom dancing competitions Continue reading...