New Diorama, LondonTwo stories, centuries apart, are used to chart climate disaster in this ambitious musical with bitty scenes and cumbersome lyrics This climate disaster musical takes plac…
The Shed, New York The actor indulges his love of the past in a breezily enjoyable play about a man falling for a woman from the 1930s, played by a standout Kelli O'Hara Tom Hanks is a star …
Choreographers hear, somehow, a larger heartbeat; it's fascinating and revelatory to have them reinterpret your compositions, writes the US musician, ahead of a triple bill featuring his mus…
The actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in March Stranger Things' Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in Rom…
From Chicago to Stan & Ollie, the Oscar-nominated actor has sung on screen for years. Now he arrives on stage " inside a trunk " to serenade the audience In one of Hollywood's nicer iron…
Brazilian actor will star in The Trial: Enemy of the People, which examines modern political and environmental conflicts The award-winning Brazilian actor Wagner Moura is to star in a new pl…
The Yorkshire comic was going nowhere with his act which relied on gimmicks, set-pieces and standing on tables. So he decided it was time to live a more interesting " and stressful " life Wh…
Its 1981 New York premiere was a disaster but this told-in-reverse musical became a Tony award-winning hit with Daniel Radcliffe. The film version is a tear-jerking joy I have made enough mi…
Imperial Theatre, New York A 1980s concept album, from Tim Rice and Abba members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is brought back to the stage with uneven results According to plenty of c…
One of the most prolific and popular actors of his generation, he reflects on therapy, homophobia, why he suspects now is the worst time in history for trans people, and his secret life as a…
Thikra: Night of Remembering is Akram Khan Company's last touring show. Here, the choreographer and dancer's collaborators recall how he motivated them Nitin Sawhney, composer, collaborated …
This madcap variety show sees its titular lead direct proceedings from her control desk. Rachel, her co-star sister and their mum explain what it reveals about disability in the UK Rachel O…
The actor moved to LA 22 years ago. Now she's back in the UK to star alongside Bryan Cranston in All My Sons. She talks about the frightening rehearsal schedule, how she'd work again with Mi…
Royal Opera House, LondonIn an engaging triple bill, a new work from Cathy Marston explores the emotional charge of Britten's Violin Concerto, while works by Justin Peck and George Balanchin…
My friend Greg McCarthy, who has died aged 47 from a heart attack, was an in-character educator, and brought history to life for primary schoolchildren across the Midlands. Through his own c…
Theatre503, LondonA young woman loses her grip on reality in writer-performer Tanya-Loretta Dee's unsettling monologue At what point does infatuation tip over into something darker and more …
What is the effervescent new boss at Pitlochry theatre planning for his first season? Huge names, undersung stars " and a King Lear played by 'the woman who changed my life' 'Holy shit!" Thi…
The Royal Ballet's Perspectives brings together a George Balanchine classic, a new work by Cathy Marston and Peck's Everywhere We Go, with music by Sufjan Stevens All photographs by Tristan …
The revered BBC strand that gave us Abigail's Party and The Black Stuff makes a return … on Channel 5. Will it be as successful as in its heyday? In March 1977, BBC One screened Spend, Spe…
Royal Court theatre, London Sophia Chetin-Leuner's drama toggles between digital and physical worlds as it traces a scholar's grim compulsion 'It's not that deep," Ani's friend assures her. …
Kiln theatre, LondonThe accused of the Pendle witch trials are given a voice but this glib production fails to do them justice Rebecca Brewer and Daisy Chute's musical, inspired by the Pendl…
Bush theatre, LondonPerformed by an exceptional cast, Sophia's Griffin's debut play paints a vivid picture of men " and a system " in crisis The heat rises slowly, and then suddenly reaches …
The reviews are in for the long-awaited adaptation of Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel, presented in a purpose-built theatre in Canary Wharf The Super Bowl optics are all there from the off:…
Live theatre, Newcastle Jamie Eastlake's play addresses the forces pushing a young man towards the far right " and the school meals supervisor set on saving him When did society become so po…
Short story set in 1983, and published a year after the former prime minister's death, considers 'what happens when people feel they don't have a voice' says director John Young Hilary Mante…