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From Ballet Shoes to Wicked, stories of female empowerment and friendship are triumphing on stage and screen ...

Leslye Headland's 2018 play makes for a tense and timely pre-holiday watch with a starry cast, including Shailene Woodley and Zavhary Quinto, giving it their all ...

Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee reflects on identity, family and tragedy in a production that is part monologue and part experimental gig ...

Staged in Ghosts' Button House, this interactive whodunnit has a lot of fun with detective-story tropes, quick-change characters and a clever solution ...

Reflecting on the stroke he had in 2023, the standup and actor delivers a mix of religion, repentance, wisecracks and tears in his Netflix special ...

Director Patrick Marber and a multitasking ensemble put on an irresistible revival of Mel Brooks' musical satire ...

With A Very Sheeps Christmas, featuring songs such as Hoo Hoo Daddy X, the comic trio and guests including Rose Matafeo pastiche all manner of festive tunes ...

At 98, the choreographer has lost none of his love for dance - or his scathing wit. As his classic Nutcracker is performed again, he talks about grit, the 'rubbish' classics and directing a historic duo ...

The drag queen's ho-hum 'anti-Christmas' show is delivered with delinquent charm and a lot of third-hand double entendres ...

With a cumbersome script and no sense of danger or atmosphere, this production loses its way ...