Battersea Arts Centre, London Katy Baird’s strange, intimate work of performance art leaves little unexposed – but its lack of depth leaves us wanting moreLast time I saw Katy Baird, she hiked up her skirt and urinated on stage. It wasn’t even her show. Tonight, with the audience all hers, she steps it up a number. On the big projection screen, we get...

Barbican, London The final hours of Mary, Queen of Scots are enacted with hypnotic precision in Robert Wilson’s collaboration with Théâtre de la Ville–ParisIn the grand soap opera of 16th-century European politics, Mary Stuart played a dizzying role, which rendered her both larger and smaller than life. Crowned Queen of Scotland after her father’s death...

The costs of fame in the US are playing out for the singer as specter of return to an old, unhappy chapter of life loomsBritney Spears has known the highs and lows of how the US treats its celebrities, traveling from Mickey Mouse club child actor to teen pop icon, to global superstar – and then more than a decade under legal conservatorship after a...

A young female playwright publicly lampoons her novelist father in this astute tale of family differencesAmong an author’s most dreaded readers, their parents rank perhaps most highly. Megan Nolan once stated that her main fear is not “scornful strangers” but “subjecting” her parents to her fiction; while RO Kwon insists she would keep her books away...

Hated on its original release, Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s ​rereleased 1970 documentary ​is full of personality but drags in placesUnavailable to the public (unless you count ropey pirated VHS copies) for some 50 years and received on its release in 1970 with the enthusiasm usually reserved for a ferocious bout of norovirus (the sting of the band’s recent...

Rebel Wilson looks uncomfortable in her non-comedy role as two couples grapple with the effects of brain injuryBased on a play by Kaite O’Reilly (who co-wrote the screenplay), The Almond and the Seahorse follows two couples, both struggling with the aftermath of traumatic brain injuries. It should be dramatically rich territory for this British indie...