Sadler’s Wells, LondonAlina Cojocaru astonishes in John Neumeier’s Ghost Light, an ethereal meditation on time, while Glen Tetley’s Firebird has much to cherishA ghost light is the nam…
Bristol Old VicA family are just getting used to their new home in this haunting drama when a parallel world emergesOverheard in the auditorium during the interval: it’s like Tales of the …
More than 30 years after Raymond Briggs’ story became a stage show, director Will Tuckett and Paddington designer Tahra Zafar have given it a hi-tech refresh with a hunky Saint Nick“Top …
Shepherd’s Bush Empire, LondonRichly wrought lyrical wit and sumptuous harmonies enhance the duo’s clever new show – along with plenty of backchatThe last time Flo & Joan played Sh…
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonThe Olivier-winner draws on his Cameroonian heritage in a visceral show, with music and movement that speak as oneDickson Mbi won an Olivier award for his last m…
A New York theater show about the infamous viral video explores the effects of growing up with internet pornAmong the first questions posed in Two Girls, a verbatim play reconstructing the e…
Old Vic theatre, LondonMatthew Warchus directs a radical and intimate revival of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s musical about a Frenchman who flees homeSome revivals overstat…
Nation’s favourite play makes London comeback amid renewed debate about future of humanities teachingThe History Boys is to return to the West End for the first time in two decades, with a…
The standup on the bizarre gifts she’s received from fans, the intoxicating power of being an author and manifesting her ‘fiercely intellectual slutty grandma’How did you get into come…
Imperial Theatre, New York CityThe veteran actor charms with stories about his colorful life and losing his home in the LA fires while taking jabs at TrumpIn his review of the 1986 buddy com…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn Danny Lee Wynter’s drama, a quiet boy struggles amid the swirl of his family until a mercurial friend offers him another futureBroad Essex accents fill the stage…
Theatre Royal, NewcastleThey have appeared in epic BBC dramas since their RSC debut but Peter Flannery’s immortal foursome now return in an 80s-focused playThe four thwarted, postwar north…
Troubadour Wembley Park theatre, LondonHarry Judd is the coach while KayCee Stroh from the original movies is back to play a teacher in the hoop-shooting, pompom-waving romanceSince soaring …
While facing grief, illness and a very public breakup, the comic reached for his diaries – and found a happy kid who spiralled into despair. Inspired by a Nobel laureate, he wrote a frank,…
St John the Divine church, London The poet’s 1935 verse drama has its eccentricities but the meticulous star plays Thomas Becket with a Shakespearean relishA striking example of site-speci…
Subject to Change: A Dance for David Bowie will explore how the musician ‘practised a form of artistic reincarnation’, says choreographer Marcos Morau‘Let’s dance,” sang David Bowi…
Selina Cartmell announces season including Stockport-set version of Phaedra myth by Simon StephensA theatre boss has promised to channel the “pioneering spirit of Manchester” and be “b…
Every sun-dappled object is an instrument as composer Dom Coyote and sound designers Elena Peña and Dave Price conjure trip-hop-inspired rhythms in the Mendips for a new stage adaptationThe…
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonIn his tour Here If You Need Me, the comic makes laugh-out-loud look easy with jokes about conjugal argy-bargy, smutty downloads – and a bit of politicsIs there a…
The choreographer has said goodbye to Lucy Guerin Inc by dancing in public for the first time in 13 years - which she has found ‘incredibly confronting’If there is one thing the professi…
From Thatcherism to global crisis to an ever-online world, she has chronicled our race to the abyss. Now she’s written a play about a blond-wigged voicepiece for an un-named, strongman rul…
Hudson Theatre, New YorkAllison Janney and Joe Keery co-star in a powerful drama about a family reunion turned political minefieldJust in time for the holidays, Jon Robin Baitz’s family re…
Barbican, LondonOmar Rajeh performs out of frustration, resistance and a need to connect in this stream-of-consciousness solo at Dance Umbrella festivalIn August 2019, Omar Rajeh sat in his …
Amid financial pressures on household and school budgets, the theatre company is expanding access with free plays Six young actors step into the spotlight as a reverent silence descends on t…
Crucible, SheffieldThe yellow stockings are as funny as ever – yet a haunting, folky live score casts a dream-like uncertainty over Shakespeare’s tangled romanceYou can picture Mathew Ho…