Lia Williams interview: ‘Paula Vennells is not imaginative enough to be evil’
The Mr Bates star on the ‘shallow’ former Post Office boss, her days as a Benidorm dancing girl – and a new play for our ‘age of victimhood’
The Mr Bates star on the ‘shallow’ former Post Office boss, her days as a Benidorm dancing girl – and a new play for our ‘age of victimhood’
The repartee is often wanting, but the excellent Together company and a beautiful tango from Pernice keeps the energy at feverish levels
The Star Wars actor is wonderfully chameleonic in the Chichester Festival Theatre’s smartly timed revival of this post-war comedy of menace
With a new cast, the Olivier Award-winning musical about the wartime operation is as terrific as ever
Despite the absurd trigger warnings, the RSC’s take on the Bard’s comedy is fittingly cartoonish – with a gloriously twittish Falstaff
The TV presenter gets plenty of laughs as the pompous steward in this kid-friendly production. But it doesn’t plumb the play’s true depth
Joined by Harry Potter’s Tom Felton, Bellamy confirms her star potential in this gripping play about the breakthrough that changed the world
The latest co-production by Leeds Playhouse and Opera North is as accomplished in social commentary as it is in plot, music and song
The staying-power of the principals in this triple-bill at the Orange Tree should win awards – Tara Fitzgerald has never been better