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Hair through the ages

Gallery (9 pictures): As Hair the Musical returns to the West End stage tomorrow, swot up on three decades of peace, love and nudity with this click-through guide ...
- Hippy musical to return to West End
- The Guardian's 1968 review of Hair
Riff Raff

Arcola, London
After 15 years of Tarantino-inspired jive-talkin', gun-totin' dramas, this three-hander has acquired a seen-it-all-before quality, writes Brian Logan
Can theatre change the world?

Dan Rebellato: Unsurpisingly, plays with political themes abound at the moment – but can they have any effect on the general election?

Improv storytelling's peculiar joy

Tim Etchells on performance: There's nothing quite as fun and exhausting as a story marathon that covers everything from murderous children to wizards in forests
Cinderella

Royal Opera House, London
This performance seduces us into responding to the fairytale as if we being told it for the first time, writes Judith Mackrell
A tweet by any other name

News: The Royal Shakespeare Company is retelling Romeo and Juliet on Twitter with cast of six and 4,000 tweets
Back to Bradford

Andrea Dunbar shot to fame with Rita, Sue and Bob Too, her frank play about a Bradford estate. Now her own brief life is the subject of a film. Alfred Hickling goes on set

Shirley Valentine / Educating Rita

12 Apr 2010:
Menier, London
It's like one big girls' night out: warming, soothing and at times raucous and invigorating, writes Lyn Gardner
Dumb Show

11 Apr 2010:
Rose, Kingston
There are some ticklish lines in Joe Penhall's three-hander, but in the vast expanses of the Rose the play starts to look pretty slight, writes Lyn Gardner
The Empire

9 Apr 2010: Royal Court Upstairs, London
There is an impressive subtlety in the way DC Moore shapes events and uses language in The Empire to explore the legacies of colonialism, class, hierarchy, privilege and racism, writes Lyn Gardner
The Comedy of Errors

9 Apr 2010:
Royal Exchange, Manchester
Director Roxana Silbert approaches Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors as if it were a new work: doing away with the interval and presenting a fast-paced, vibrant account, writes Alfred Hickling
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Magia de la Danza

11 Apr 2010:
Coliseum, London Carlos Acosta has come a long way since leaving Cuba, but his fellow dancers in the National Ballet of Cuba have some way to go, says Luke Jennings
Dance picks of the week

10 Apr 2010:
Spring Loaded | Royal Ballet: Cinderella | Mark Morris Dance Group: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato
National Ballet of Cuba

8 Apr 2010:
Coliseum, London
They may have great depth of talent, but Cuba's finest still have to fight their way out of an artistic straitjacket, writes Judith Mackrell
Ballet Black

4 Apr 2010: Four new works play to the strengths of this outstanding six-strong company of black classical dancers, writes Luke Jennings
More about dance

Corin Redgrave gets funeral ovation

12 Apr 2010: Recording of actor's rendition of Goodbye, from the film Oh! What A Lovely War, ends packed service at St Paul's church
Appreciation: Corin Redgrave, 1939-2010

11 Apr 2010: Big Issue founder and ex-Workers Revolutionary party member John Bird remembers his fellow campaigner and actor, Corin Redgrave
Huxley's Lab

11 Apr 2010:
This challenging performance by two Scottish companies repudiates conformity, writes Clare Brennan
British writers stage takeover on the boards in South Africa

11 Apr 2010:
A theatre culture where indigenous works hold sway is awash with headline acts from the UK
Marisa Carnesky: 'I'm fascinated by the idea of the waxwork body coming back to life'

11 Apr 2010: The 'magical performance artiste' talks to Imogen Carter about her creepy new show at the Roundhouse
More about theatre

Halal comedy? You might as well ask for halal bacon

12 Apr 2010:
Shazia Mirza: The organiser said not to talk about religion, sex or the president. But when you tell a comedian not to do something, well …
The pope, Dr Johnson, politics... and me

11 Apr 2010: Everyone's favourite armchair football fan, who is returning to the small screen, explains how he first had to turn down a gig with the pontiff
Comedy picks of the week

10 Apr 2010:
David Cross | Eric's Tales Of The Sea | Scott Capurro's Position
Can you define offensive comedy?

9 Apr 2010:
Paul MacInnes: As Frankie Boyle's Down's Syndrome skit lands him in hot water, it's time for us to draw a line between humour that works and humour that hurts
More about comedy