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Led by MÄori and Pasifika queer communities, the counterculture has gone from performing in lounges and clubs to Wellington's national museum
In a large gallery at New Zealand's national …
Chloé Zhao's film version of Maggie O'Farrell's myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet's grand stage drama
'The joys of parents are se…
The Merseyside comic used her experiences of Oxbridge to create the fringe hit Eat the Rich, but struggled in ways her well-off contemporaries didn't. Now she's determined to use success to …
Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York
The White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts' 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaks
You can p…
Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Waters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot
There is a moment at the start of this do…
(We indulge in) a bit of roll play is an explicit drama about a young disabled man's sexual expression " and puts uncomfortable questions to its audience
"I'm asked quite a lot why everythin…
Engaging in creativity can reduce depression, improve immunity and delay ageing " all while you're having fun
For some reason, we have collectively agreed that new year is the time to reinv…
Abbey theatre, DublinBarbara Bergin's tale follows four families through strikes in the slums, the Easter Rising, the early years of independence and the HIV-Aids crisis of the 1980s
In Barb…
The Londoner from Lagos wowed the fringe with a show about language, family and cross-cultural identity. She talks about dread, dreams and her bid for 'controlled chaos'
Before her first Edi…
After a record-breaking season, big stars and big revivals hope to lure in New York audiences over the next 12 months
The year 2025 found Broadway at a major inflection point " New York thea…
Joseph on sussing the school system at the age of four, an awkward audition for the National Youth Theatre, and why he loves his 'horrible' Peep Show character
Born in Willesden, north-west …
'You don't have to be tortured to make great art,' says founder of mental health support organisation Artist Wellbeing
From Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf, from Nina Simone to Amy Wineho…
The director, who has died aged 98, permanently changed the landscape of British theatre by creating the Young Vic " and it reflected his own energetic and ever innovative nature
Frank Dunl…
Duke of York's Theatre, London
Sheridan Smith's disconsolate housewife seeks refuge in a fantasy world, in critique of the emptiness of married life
Susan is not the first woman battling inn…
Founder of the Young Vic who later became the director of the Edinburgh international festival
A pocket dynamo of a man who seemed to bounce as he walked along, Frank Dunlop will be remember…
The Twelfth Night Reunion gathers some of the grandest names in British theatre, including Simon Callow and Stephen Fry, to explain why Shakespeare's play continues to bewitch audiences
Many…
When the Canadian comedian first arrived in the UK, she says she was instantly poor. But her career soon began to take off. She discusses provocation, perfectionism and telling people her se…
He's written screen smashes like Dune and Killers of the Flower Moon. As Eric Roth plunges into theatre, he talks about classic westerns, being sacked by Robert Redford " and why writing for…
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London A revival of the Wicked composer's 70s medieval-quest musical brings magic and joy but malevolence is missing
Once upon a time, long before Wicked became a …
Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner unite for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Michael Sheen launches Welsh National Theatre and Bridget Christie revs up for a return to the stage Continue reading...
Directing the likes of Alicia Vikander, Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman on stage, the Australian director is returning to Adelaide festival with a bold new take on The Cherry Orchard
Get our …
Orange Tree theatre, London
Comedy's upper-class antics are transposed to 1920s Bath and bring a crowd-pleasing mix of anarchic spirit and silliness, though it slackens occasionally
Richard …
My mother, Elizabeth Kay, who has died aged 97, made her West End debut playing Ismene in Laurence Olivier's celebrated production of Oedipus Rex at the Old Vic in 1945-46.
Born in Worthing,…
Rattigan hoped his 1954 tale about a swindler who exploits his son's sexual allure would prove him a serious dramatist. Its scandalous story reveals much about the playwright and resonates f…
Restoration presented as rebuilding, but many see it as part of a broader Russification effort in occupied Ukrainian city
The Mariupol Drama Theatre, destroyed in a Russian airstrike in 2022…
