Theatre

The rumours are true: Stereophonic’s debt to Fleetwood Mac

It’s this year’s big West End hit but the co-producer of the classic album thinks the play is secondhand news

Onstage orgasms, live tattooing, ‘embracing our mucky parts’

The month-long festival can be an endurance test for many its performers, as they confront their emotional and physical boundaries

Michael Morpurgo: ‘I don’t read much – that surprises people’

The author and playwright, 81, on the book that changed his life, enduring love and how he rediscovered singing

Of course, mothers are always to blame

Inter Alia, the play of the summer, gives us Rosamund Pike channelling all the ‘mum guilt’ tropes but skips tough questions about how men shape their sons

How Sarah Kane ‘ripped down the veil on the abyss’

The playwright took her own life at 28 in 1999. Now those closest to her talk about a restaging of her final play

Remembering Pierre Audi, visionary founder of the Almeida

Unassuming and innovative, his work across boundaries and frontiers created the space that allowed others – from Philip Glass to Yuri Lyubimov – to shine

Imelda Staunton and daughter light up brothel drama

Playing a former sex worker and her disapproving daughter, Staunton and Bessie Carter are a treat in Dominic Cooke’s bold new production, which liberates the heart of Bernard Shaw’s once banned play

Our imperilled planet in three acts

Flora Wilson Brown’s new play unfolds in the past as well as near and far futures, with climate change the linking theme

In Letters from Max, Sarah Ruhl celebrates friendship – and soup

The playwright dramatises her correspondence with the poet Max Ritvo in a moving show about deep friendship – and soup

Theatre: Sondheim’s bittersweet swansong

Unfinished fusion of two Buñuel films is unmissable but loses itself as the music dies

Theatre: the story of the Titanic, as told by Céline Dion

A bizarre, high-camp musical that reimagines Céline Dion as the star of Titanic and features an Olivier award-winning singing iceberg is drawing a growing number of devoted fans to the West End

Gary Oldman is extraordinary in Krapp’s Last Tape

The Slow Horses star performs in, directs and designs an intimate production of Samuel Beckett’s one-man drama of loss, finely capturing its sense of rage and reverie

Theatre: How to Fight Loneliness

Architecture: return to the pleasure palace

Returning to its pleasure palace roots, a faded grade II-listed 1930s cinema in east London has been given a new lease of life as a 960-seat theatre with a distinctly carnival spirit