The 55-year-old actor has been playing Emcee in Cabaret, which will now shut a month earlier than planned Billy Porter is "recovering from a serious case of sepsis", forcing the early closur…
In his reverse-chronology play about a married couple dealing with an affair, Harold Pinter asked the audience to find meaning in unspoken words I didn't see Harold Pinter's Betrayal on stag…
Cow | Deer gets 'between the ears' of animals, creating mouse noises with polystyrene balls and comparing wild creatures with industrialised ones. So if there's no dialogue, what did its wri…
Toronto film festival: Nia DaCosta ups the nastiness of Hedda Gabler in a stylish but over-egged adaptation with lead Tessa Thompson losing the film to a standout Nina Hoss Henrik Ibsen's se…
Toronto film festival: The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao's poignant adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker ending Maggie O'Farrell's lauded 2020 nove…
Can two world-famous actors and auteur Simon Stone bring 19th-century Norway screaming into the modern world? They talk mean directors, bathtub revelations and reinventing Ibsen's The Lady f…
Soho theatre, LondonThe US comic and TV writer's account of his military service in Iraq is exuberant, enlightening, and flies the flag for the plight of veterans At one point in Bill Posley…
Tabard theatre, LondonA man returns home having been reported missing for 24 hours in this welcome revival of RC Sherriff's postwar hit Our perceptions of the first world war are greatly sha…
Marlowe theatre, CanterburyAmy Rosenthal's drama explores the aristocratic It girls' politics and sibling dynamics, but doesn't bring much new to the party " or accentuate the contemporary r…
Textile artists are reshaping how the theatre makes its costumes with the aim of replacing harsh synthetic dyes Squint at the roof of the grey, brutalist National Theatre on London's South …
Earl of Southampton may have given writer the miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has defaced heart on its reverse The discovery of a previously unknown portrait miniature by one of Elizab…
Royal Court theatre, LondonUkrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky's book-length poem is a potent theatrical force of many moving parts " signing, speech, surtitles, even a drone hovering over the audi…
Ray Mia says to honour the playwright we must also honour those who risk bringing him back; Roger Thomas thinks he is less accessible than Shakespeare. Plus a letter from Richard Digby Day T…
Manchester Opera HouseEndlessly entertaining jukebox show frames its plot around a seaside store's workers to purvey the band's hits Under a stark spotlight a woman sings an ode to her still…
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe Egot-winning actor presents semi-formed thoughts on things from ageing to AI in an undemanding show Beginning an evening of amiable waffling, Whoopi Goldberg an…
Barn theatre, CirencesterFeaturing extraordinary voice acting, this play about the birth of the BBC's farming drama will equally satisfy superfans and everyday folk Even regular listeners to…
Southbank Centre, LondonA cast of 80 spray-paint the pavement, parade a 40-phone selfie stick and bring dirty bass to ballet in (La)Horde's night of sensational dance morsels A black stretch…
What began as a nasty Twitter spat seven years ago has led to a peculiar metamorphosis for the comedy writer It was as he was lying on a hospital trolley, after surgery to treat testicular c…
She was the morality crusader who became a figure of ridicule. Now Whitehouse is the subject of a new production starring Maxine Peake. We meet the gay feminist playwright who wrote it The m…
The Victorian town of Castlemaine lets loose at the annual costumed dance competition Hot Moves No Pressure Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Every country town has its explosive F…
Composer, whose work ranged from opera to ballet to concertos, was married to ballerina Maya Plisetskaya for 57 years The Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who created the celebrated ballet…
Wyndham's theatre, LondonGatwa's Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel's William Shakespeare flirt, fight and write in Liz Duffy Adams' sizzling new chamber play Forget William Shakespeare.…
When Inua Ellams, writer of Barber Shop Chronicles, went to Lagos, he became aware of how much fraud suffused the city " so he decided to tell the story of its cons Inua Ellams was walking t…
At 54, the comic has found a new lease of life by embracing his first love " pottery. He talks about agoraphobia, ADHD and creating ceramic cuddles In a cavernous room in an old pottery fact…
John Cleese's stage version of his beloved sitcom, a cast recording of Cornish musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Robert Wilson's production of Handel's Messiah are among Septem…