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Having quit stand-up last year, the comedian is making her theatre debut — playing a character she understands on a 'gut level', because she reminds her of her mother.

A production of "Waiting for Godot" at the University of Groningen, a public university in the Netherlands, has been canceled after university officials found out only men had been auditioned for the cast. All of the characters in the play are men. A university spokesperson acknowledged that author Samuel Beckett…

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

This stimulating genre-blurring account of a year in the life of a writer asks how we weigh and value our days

The Banshees of Inisherin, from the Oscar-winning director of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, uses the violent end of a friendship as an allegory for Ireland's Civil War.

The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

Target of bombs is unclear, with some speculating Russia is trying to destroy key Ukrainian monuments

As his new version of Alfred Jarry’s scandalous Ubu Roi is staged in Spain, the innovative director considers the collision of the terrifying and the comic

And we’re back. Founded in 1955, the Evening Standard Theatre Awards are the UK’s oldest dramatic accolades, an annual recognition by London’s newspaper of the excellence of London’s theatre. Across seven decades, the awards honoured the great and the good both on and off stage in acting, writing, musical performance,…

A virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter

Stoppard, Pinter and Orton are among playwrights to have cut their teeth on a service that’s being cut back because of budget restraints