There’s no hiding: on-stage seating creates a round that echoes the ghoulish spectacle of Victorian operating theatres 

Long before they created Joey, the equine hero of ‘War Horse’, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones used puppets to tell the stories of their native South Africa. On the eve of the London revival of ‘Ubu and the Truth Commission’, Boyd Tonkin meets the  pair pulling the strings

Interpretation of the Bard's  self-thwarting problem comedy revs into a kind of an elating parody

Survey finds that 80% of theatre-goers are put off attending productions more often over costly tickets

Why should black women wear their hair in a way that conforms to western ? aka white ? beauty ideals?

Musical telling Berry Gordy's story will feature 50 Motown classics, with some whittled down to two-minute versions 

Landon Rust began yelling at the actress during the opening scene and had to be led out by security

Miller wrote the play over six days in 1936 while he was at the University of Michigan

'Sustainability becomes a factor, in the same way as time or money'

‘He was hot and romantic’

The Wolf Hall actor's Philippe V is wrong-footlingly whimsical but buffeted with gusts of violent paranoia

Complex female roles have been around since ancient times ? from Phaedra to the monstrous Mum in That Face

Laura Wade's stage adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel is worth the admission price for certain sequences alone

Gregory Doran has crafted an impressive addition to his English histories project

‘Photograph 51’ gives Rosalind Franklin credit she is due ? but the reputation of a colleague suffers

Tanya Ronder's instinct seems to have deserted her in her first stand-alone play

This version of the Greek tragedy shows the murderous royal mother in an unlikely light, says Holly Williams

Did the riding accident in which he lost his leg damage Foote's brain?

Emily Jupp climbs aboard