Karen Fricker: A debate at the Royal Court Theatre will discuss the blogosphere's impact on theatre criticism

Before a backdrop made of hundreds of dried tuna tails nailed to bleached planking, a man is dancing in slow motion with a live peacock to the sound of distant percussion. His head is shaved and his body painted white. The peacock walks free and begins to peck at the stage. Four more white-painted men, naked except for G-strings, advance downstage, as numinous as Antony Gormley statues, and begin to wrestle in pools of light ...

Carrie Dunn: The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical returns to Theatreland, Jason Donovan's Priscilla pals are confirmed and Douglas Hodge has a new show up his sleeve

Carrie Dunn:Lesley Garrett may have kicked the habit and moved on to Carousel, but Sister Act is due to follow the Sound of Music into the Palladium

Is the story of Jews trapped in the Warsaw ghetto really a fit topic for a musical? And do the Nazis get to sing? Tanya Gold goes behind the scenes at an unlikely West End show

Twenty-two years ago, Lloyd Newsom founded DV8 to make theatre and dance that 'mattered'. Their new show uses verbatim texts to challenge intolerance, racism and homophobia

There's a photograph of Anton Chekhov that thrills me every time I see it. The great playwright is opening a copy of The Seagull, and gathered around him are the actors of the Moscow Art Theatre. Chekhov, it seems, is going to read them his entire play - all the characters and stage directions. It's not something today's playwrights do, at least in Britain: first readings are given by the actors. But how exciting it ...