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With a huge cast, a somersaulting Peter and pirates crawling menacingly into the audience, Chickenshed's reworking of JM Barrie's Christmas staple is sheer magic ...

Having worked his magic as director of the Almeida theatre, the gifted Goold is bound for greater glories: the National had better watch out ...

'One day, I was summoned to a pub near the Royal Court theatre where Samuel Beckett was looking at my work. "These are wonderful pictures," he said'

There are cursory mentions of crocodiles, clocks and boys who never grow up, but Johnny McKnight's script charts its own course in a hilariously daft production ...

Goold says he is seeking new challenge after more than decade in charge at the Almeida theatre ...

Legal journalist Maximilian Steinbeis's play A Citizen of the People shows how a party like the AfD could go about upending the country's 75-year-old democracy ...

This farce about a gaffe-laden am-dram whodunnit was born above a pub. How did it become one of Britain's greatest ever exports, the toast of more than 50 countries? Our writer hits the continent to solve the mystery ...

You'll never find an audience or a cast more invested than at a seasonal show, where kids find their feet in front of you. But performing arts provision for the youngest is in peril ...

After weeks of astonishing performances and easy wit, the comic is the bookies' favourite to win. He talks about the privilege of being the first blind person to appear - and how his daughter changed his outlook on life ...

Group had their New York debut in 1991 and will play their last show in the city in February ...