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The latest from the brilliant Anthony Neilson opens at the Royal Court, Dundee Rep hosts girls behaving badly, Howard Jacobson relives his Manchester childhood, and the On the Edge festival …
Barbican, LondonSet amid the Indigenous Australian community, this loose adaptation by Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre stirs Shakespeare's text into a rich linguistic stewKing Lear has lent it…
Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour | The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk | Matilda The Musical | Cuttin' It | The AlchemistHeading to the National Theatre in August, Lee Hall's adaptation of Alan Warn…
The Pit, LondonThis 45-minute plunge into Japanese celebrity mania is like a cross between reality TV, Les Mis and a toddlers' food fightWe are often told, "you will never have seen anything…
In getting to parts that other arts don't reach, outdoor shows attract audiences that genuinely represent the wider population, as a new study findsThe weather may still be a bit iffy, but i…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsAlice Nutter's gripping story of munitions factory workers is full of verve, but veers towards soap operaThe "women behind the guns" were the thousands of fema…
A critic who tweeted the title of the Lyric's new season sparked outrage " and possibly drove audiences to the theatreI love going to the theatre when I don't know very much about a show, wh…
Shows such as Philip Ridley's Karagula aim to entice audiences with the promise of a mysterious venue. All too often, this has little relevance to the play itself"Immersive" was once the mar…
Groundbreaking European theatre arrives in Birmingham, Slung Low commune with the fairy world in Stratford-upon-Avon, and 1984 returns to the West EndThe Offbeat festival starts at the Old F…
Styx, LondonPhilip Ridley's three-hours-plus tangle of dystopian fantasies doesn't lack for imagination, but is undone by its own excessesIn fairytales, communities ensure their continued sa…
The Truth | Bird | The Curious Incident Of The Dog in The Night-Time | Cuttin' It | Can I Start Again PleaseThe Florian Zeller hit factory just keeps on delivering. First came The Father, th…
Shows around the UK are underpinned by countless unpaid hours, short-term contracts and decreasing fees. At a time of cuts, artists are afraid to rock the boatThe Office for National Statist…
The Pit, LondonA shattered ballroom is the setting for Greek company Blitz's apocalyptic vision of a lost continent where catastrophe is political and emotionalLondon has gone dark, Paris is…
Circus is a celebration of being alive " so what happens when acrobats perform in a graveyard? Yaron Lifschitz of the Australian ensemble talks about the dusk staging of their eerie new piec…
It's the last chance to see many big shows, London and Yorkshire festivals bring drama, dance and and site-specific treats, Chagall's lovers fly into the Globe, and Timothy West plays King L…
Ustinov, BathFlorian Zeller's Molière award-winning play, starring Lia Williams and Kenneth Cranham, takes us into the confused world of an elderly man and his carer daughterThere is usuall…
Bugsy Malone | The James Plays | People, Places & Things | The Night Watch | The FlickSplurge guns at the ready! Sean Holmes's delicious revival of Alan Parker's New York gangster musica…
The fringe programme is out today " so here's a venue-by-venue look at some of this year's highlights across the Edinburgh festival. Let us know what's caught your eye Continue reading...
The omens look good for the first instalment of the two-part play, which previews at the Palace theatre in London tonight " and hardly needs critics' star ratings to be a successMany are alr…
Playwright best known for The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and AmadeusAlthough the playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, who has died aged 90, wrote one of the best farces of postwar British theatre…
In the latest part of her 'empathy museum', Clare Patey invites audiences to put on a stranger's footwear and take a walk while listening to the shoe-owner's personal story on headphonesPeop…
Bristol Old VicEmma Rice's final Kneehigh show is a love letter to the company she founded as much as a celebration of Marc and Bella Chagall and their lost Russian-Jewish worldThere is a mo…
Isabelle Huppert plays Phaedra and Mike Bartlett's new play Wild opens, plus the rest of the week's unmissable theatreThere are lots of great shows starting in the London international festi…
Bird | Beyond Caring | Show Boat | People, Places And Things | The FlickLike a fragile bird whose fiercely beating heart can be detected in your cupped hand, Katherine Chandler's Bruntwood p…
Hackney Empire, LondonThe US drag artist raised the roof on the London international festival of theatre with a raucous opening night of songs, sequins and joyous misgendering"Normally I com…
