Teacher who ran school outside Paris was a formative influence on generations of comedians and actors including Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson Master clown Philippe Gaulier, the infl…
Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on " as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed When people praised Tony Jay and me for Yes Minister's prescience, we ac…
Judges, including Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, praise Georgina Duncan's play as the kind 'producers dream of and audiences yearn to watch' A work that explores what happens when…
Cast, DoncasterA visually arresting adaptation trades Martian menace for Enoch Powell-era paranoia " technically dazzling, politically pointed, yet also confusing 'National emergency to repe…
Shadowy urban terror gives way to airborne exuberance as the festival celebrates its 20th edition with a programme that disturbs and delights Suited dancers swing around a streetlight in Spa…
York Theatre RoyalIn Catherine Dyson's absorbing play, the audience become a class of year 9 pupils visiting a Holocaust exhibition with an emotional support animal Can we ever truly learn f…
Union to appeal after losing case against historic talent index in battle that could reshape UK acting landscape For almost a century it has been the casting directors' bible, a shopfront fo…
The former Bond girl talks about her new role as a top writer accused of stealing a story as her actor husband is cancelled " and why she has no regrets about her time aboard the 007 rollerc…
Black Panther made him a megastar, but in private the actor and his wife Simone Ledward Boseman were dealing with his terminal cancer diagnosis. In a rare interview, she talks about the shoc…
Orange Tree theatre, LondonRichard Eyre's adaptation brings comedy and tenderness alongside Strindberg's original savagery August Strindberg's portrait of marriage is unremittingly bleak in …
The Coronet theatre, LondonJapanese company Chiten abandon naturalism for rhythmic dialogue and highly stylised movements " but there is much invention to admire Dostoevsky wrote his 1866 no…
New Diorama theatre, LondonJames Nash's doomscrolling play unpacks social media and the violence it hosts We piece together fragments. Distorted voice notes, the depths of the comments secti…
My mother, Carol Lawrence, who has died aged 81, was a stage and costume designer at an exciting time in British theatre who pivoted to a successful second career at the BBC, finding her nic…
Darlington HippodromePerkins' return to live comedy features some lurid stories of her personal and professional ineptitude, and jaunty tales about vacuum cleaners and a drug-addled trip to …
Exclusive: John Doyle says theatre should be able to disturb and challenge audiences, and not sanitise difficult themes The Tony award-winning theatre director John Doyle has warned that tri…
Minerva theatre, Chichester Award-winning writer Tim Foley's frightfest brings an out of work actor to a country manor to burnish the myth of its resident wraith. Beware of the silhouetted h…
Soho theatre, LondonDesire collides with stomach-churning awkwardness in this play " which won the Women's prize " about friends heading out for some physical contact I'm watching Miriam Bat…
Old Vic, LondonStuffed with knowledge and often regarded as the playwright's finest work, this drama's sheer cleverness gleams in an exuberant production When Tom Stoppard was asked what thi…
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonWhitney White's thrilling, song-filled show flips Shakespeare's great characters and asks why we still lap up these tales of sexy men killing sexy women I…
Octagon, BoltonThree grownup daughters display childhood neediness in this well-acted production that explores unrequited desires as a mother comes back from the grave The three grownup sist…
Theatro Technis, London In Philip de Voni's ambitious debut play, a clash over funeral rites exposes deep divisions in a British-Cypriot extended family Ancient Greek literature teems with c…
Crucible, SheffieldThe supernatural is all-encompassing in Oladipo Agboluaje's reframing of Shakespeare's power play in 19th-century west Africa Every time the court historian turns up, he h…
In the last five years, African diaspora theatre has swept from the fringes on to the country's main stages " fuelled by artists like Zindzi Okenyo Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emai…
Barn theatre, CirencesterSimon Nye brings back the characters from his hit TV series for a misconceived comedy set on millennium eve In a nervy theatre economy, with familiar material most l…
Bush theatre, London Farah Najib's play tells the story of an isolated woman who dies at home and considers the community's responsibility The opening quote to Farah Najib's drama tells us t…