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The Famous Spiegelterrace on George Street will return for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe in a modified format after local concerns following last year’s event. The terrace, which costs £600,000 to build and manage, is an...

The Young Vic production of A Doll’s House will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre this summer. Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play, which is directed by Carrie Cracknell, will run from August...

Paul Shane, who rose to fame as the holiday camp comedian Ted Bovis in Jimmy Croft and David Perry’s 1980s television comedy hit Hi-de-Hi! has died at the age of 72. The Rotherham-born miner-turned-club entertainer...

Our series continues as the Secret Actor discusses what's OK when it comes to showing off – and what's pure peacockery

In order to perform in front of people you've never met, not to mention ask them to pay their hard-earned cash for that pleasure, it stands to reason that you'll need a certain amount of chutzpah. As my mother has reminded me on many occasions, "Acting is the bizarre pursuit of trying to get strangers to like you." All actors possess some kind of "look at me" quality; if they didn't, they'd be dentists.

But what separates...

Hazlett, Maidstone

When you are comfortably established in comedy's club class, no one expects you to innovate. It is to Phill Jupitus's immense credit, then, that this touring show is genuinely experimental and unlike anything else on the circuit. What it isn't, alas, is successful. Combining character comedy and improv, Jupitus appears in three consecutive guises and takes unplanned questions from the floor. It is an intriguing endeavour, but underpowered, lacking either the jeopardy and energy of good improv or the depth that marks the best character comedy.

Jupitus's two alter egos are Vernon Herschel-Harley, a...

Riverside Studios, London

It is not often that a curtain speech is the highlight of a show, but at the end of this bio-play about the once-famous cabaret artist Hutch, his son, Chris, paid tribute to his father. He recalled Hutch's courage in leaving Grenada at the age of 17 to make his name as a singer-pianist in New York, Paris and London, and his success in recording more than 450 songs. Chris also touched on the fleetingness of fame. When he himself appears in an eponymous tribute show to his dad, the question he is most...

The Donmar Warehouse has announced its new season, which features the premiere of Nick Payne's new play The Same Deep Water as Me, a revival of Arnold Wesker's Roots starring Jessica Raine and Linda Bassett, and Coriolanus starring Tom Hiddleston. ...

Among this week's major London theatre openings, in the West End and further afield, are Relatively Speaking at the Wyndham’s Theatre, Tanzi Libre at Southwark Playhouse, NT Shed's Bullet Catch and more: Opening Monday Re...

Broadway is in the grip of awards frenzy, with this Sunday night's Drama Desk bonanza in the Town Hall - sponsored by Whatsonstage.com's new parent company, TheaterMania - followed in three weeks' time by the Tonys in Radio City. The big fight on b...