Lourdes gets a Vegas glow-up at Dublin theatre festival, where canvases are slashed
A musical about a drama group’s pilgrimage and reflections on activist art join an intriguing show about lost languagesIn a Dublin theatre festival programme tackling heavy themes of racism, conflict and prejudice, Lourdes! The Musical (★★★★☆) promises…
Contact review – Jonny Donahoe delivers a heated reunion at a bonfire of family photos
Òran Mór, GlasgowBlythe Duff and Mark Barrett are excellent as two people helplessly bound to each other in this bitter two-handerThe arrival of a first baby changes everything. It is not just the upheaval of fitting the child into your life: the shift…
As You Like It review – there are no mere players in the RSC’s ravishing all-male escapade
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonWith a WWE-style wrestling match, playful eroticism and a fine cast including Hamilton’s Jonathan Groff, this is an exquisite production‘To liberty, and not to banishment,” exclaims Celia to Rosalind, the…
Eva Marie Saint obituary
Oscar-winning actor celebrated for her outstanding performances in On the Waterfront and North By NorthwestEva Marie Saint, who has died aged 102, made a lasting impression in two outstanding American films: as Edie Doyle, the wholesome, sensitive,…
The Hungry Ghost review – this sexy, juicily spooky romcom is a scream
Bush theatre, LondonMei Leng Yew’s play veers between humour and horror as a young woman ignores her mum’s warning about big life changes during a ghost festivalWith shapeshifting performances and smart, heartfelt writing, Mei Leng Yew’s juicily spooky…
Affluenza review – Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp can’t save this baffling disaster
Riverside Studios, LondonAndy Sandberg’s play gets off to an intriguing start before coming off the rails in spectacular, almost fascinating style. For all the wrong reasons, it’s hard to look away It starts off with a car crash, and enters its own…
Forty years of the Phantom of the Opera – the show that wouldn’t die: ‘People come back to hear the impossible’
As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s enduring gothic melodrama celebrates its 40th birthday, producer Cameron Mackintosh and cast members from down the years recall what makes it so specialThere is something about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterly musical The Phantom…
Gillian Anderson responds to backlash after telling ‘distracting’ fans to stop sitting in front row
The actor, who is performing on the West End, was filmed telling theatre fans ‘you can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row, it’ll drive me mad’Gillian Anderson has come under fire after the actor was filmed telling a group of fans that they were…
John Maynard Keynes: the cultured economist who governments turn to in a crisis
A new play about the art-loving Bloomsbury Group member speaks of the enduring battle of ideas with his free-market rival Friedrich HayekThe sound of guns from the advancing German armies could be heard clearly by John Maynard Keynes as his train…
Pam Tanowitz: Pastoral review – Beethoven explodes into bright bursts of gorgeous dance
Barbican, London Spinning off from the classic symphony with composer Caroline Shaw and artist Sarah Crowner, Tanowitz’s dancers find fresh thinking spacePam Tanowitz’s work is the antidote to the trend in dance for dark and shadowy stages, buckets of…