Why not run completely wild? It was into the woods three times last week. Commissioned to round off the World Shakespeare Festival, Forests is a devised piece rustled up by director Calixto …
Traditionalists should look away now. Or at least have the smelling salts to hand. Tonight a radical new version of Three Sisters opens at the Young Vic in London, with three rapidly rising …
A major new dance project from Michael Clark is taking place this weekend on the last days of the Cultural Olympiad in the legendary, burger-scented Barrowlands Ballroom in Glasgow. It's hel…
A West End transfer was widely predicted for April De Angelis's wincingly witty play when it opened at the Royal Court last year. And now here it duly is, acclimatising effortlessly to its n…
Choreographers love San Francisco Ballet. In-demand names such as Mark Morris and Christopher Wheeldon regularly return to create work for this sunny, adventurous company.
James Dacre's eight-person revival of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy is as much a study of the foibles and strengths of women, as the many forms that love can take.
For their latest show this sharp-witted and usually slumberwear-clad pair, who you'll normally never catch sleeping, have cast off crafted lines and practised clowning - and their normal sta…
Olga, Masha and Irina yearn for the adrenaline rush of life in Moscow in Chekhov's heartbreaking masterpiece. Don't miss this stunning version of by director Benedict Andrews at London's You…
Some of the aristocrats shipwrecked on Prospero's isle in The Tempest hear invisible sprites singing sweet airs that delight and hurt not. Others hear barking, as if demonic hounds were at t…
In Alan Ayckbourn's nightmares he is psychoanalysed and straightened out. "Then I wouldn't have anything to write about," he says. There is little danger of that. As he embarks on his 77th p…
Sheridan Smith, "the 5ft and a fag end" powerhouse who's about to tower over us all, is recalling her first ever appearance on television. It didn't go well.
What are we talking about? A new version of 17th-century French dramatist Jean Racine's tragedy of unrequited and unfulfilled love, Berenice, which is playing at the Donmar Warehouse.
Farce has its affinities with the Freudian psychoanalytic method. Both are mechanisms for exposing the guilty secrets we are desperate to hide " the former for sadistically comic, the latter…
In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, last Bank Holiday weekend, you could have yourself a "Beckett" haircut, buy an Endgame sandwich (ham-and-clove filling), watch a game of rugby contesting th…
In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, last Bank Holiday weekend, you could have yourself a "Beckett" haircut, buy an Endgame sandwich (ham-and-clove filling), watch a game of rugby contesting th…
This collaboration between the RSC and New York's experimental Wooster Group got badly mauled when it was unveiled in Stratford a month ago. Approaching it for the first time during this…
Presented as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, this new theatrical work from Scots company Vanishing Point makes a tremendous impression, although not necessarily in a good way. …
Craig Armstrong, a Scottish composer best known for the scores of Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge, is a master manipulator of the emotions.
This J B Priestley play impressed the critics when it opened in 1935 but flopped after only a few weeks and has since sunk into near oblivion.Â
There's one overwhelming reason to check out this dramatically rather run-of-the-mill bio-musical, and that is to savour Emi Wokoma's phenomenal performance as Tina Turner.
Those venturing to Covent Garden this week may be in for a theatrical surprise. Visitors shopping in the market or enjoying a coffee could receive their own "pop-up" performances of Shakespe…
Farce has its affinities with the Freudian psychoanalytic method. Both are mechanisms for exposing the repressions and the guilty secrets we are desperate to hide " the former for sadistical…
The mysterious "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets has long fascinated readers, with debate raging about her true identity. Now new research adds weight to the theory that the sexually vora…
The mysterious "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets has long fascinated readers, with debate raging about her true identity. Now new research adds weight to the theory that the sexually vora…
Now that's what I call storming. A gigantic mainsail is thrashing overhead, as if in a hurricane. One man clings to the yardarm while, down below, a sailor appears to be sliding, spread-eagl…