David Jays

Best known as Nurse Phyllis in the TV hit, the actor is a peerless interpreter of Caryl Churchill and is starring in Alexander Zeldin’s ‘Shakespearean’ play about dementia. She looks back on a career of unconventional choices

On the hottest day of the year, a conflagration. The Young Vic's studio space fills with smoke as records of violence against women across the centuries are consumed by flames.

The late singer gets a thrilling tribute from a cast of 10 dancers in Sonya Taleh’s heartfelt show

‘I'm just a troubled soul who needs to scream into a mic now and then,” said Sinéad O'Connor. Troubles and screams both sing out in The Surge, an ode to her by American choreographer Sonya Tayeh.

It’s been 26 years since Billy Elliot, which changed perceptions about who could dance — but have boys benefited? David Jays reports

From returning comedy award winner Sam Nicoresti to Flo & Joan’s cheeky One Man Musical, these are surefire standouts at the fringe

Bog Witch It may contain a brief moment of actual tree-hugging but this bracing solo show by Bryony Kimmings finds fresh and compelling perspectives on the horribly familiar plight of our planet.

The star of Dear Evan Hansen plays a 1960s Greenwich Village crooner in hit queer musical Midnight at the Never Get. It’s the perfect outlet for his anxiety, he says

David Jays In performance, Ben Platt is a mellifluous singer and loose-limbed dancer, with a fizzy back-note of neurotic New York.

In performance, Ben Platt is a mellifluous singer and loose-limbed dancer, with a fizzy back-note of neurotic New York.