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Stage

  • David Byrne pictured in 2020

    UK arts need ‘rescue package’ to avoid lost generation, says Royal Court boss

    David Byrne calls for urgent state support for young playwrights, particularly those from minority or working-class backgrounds
  • Curve’s production of A Chorus Line.

    ‘I don’t know if my body can do this’: does A Chorus Line still ring true for dancers?

  • Dee Ahluwalia (Karim), centre, in The Buddha of Suburbia at the Swan Theatre.

    The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel

  • Alfie Friedman, centre, as Connor Sparrowhawk in Laughing Boy.

    Laughing Boy review – Connor Sparrowhawk’s story told with love and fury

  • Make Good the post office scandal the musical

    New musical based on Horizon scandal is ‘deep dive into the crushing heartbreak’

  • Ed Larkin and Jonny Amies in The Little Big Things.

    The best theatre to stream this month: The Little Big Things, David Tennant in Good and more

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Reviews

  • A vortex of sound and light … Jodie McNee and Ricardo Castro in Minority Report at Lyric Hammersmith, London.

    Minority Report review – futuristic fugitive thriller is criminally undercooked

    Max Webster and David Haig’s ambitious female-led stage version of the sci-fi thriller is overwhelmed by its own optics
  • Very easy to enjoy … Sophie's Surprise 29th at Underbelly Boulevard

    Sophie’s Surprise 29th review – thrilling birthday bash of circus and cabaret

  • Lightly sketched … James Corrigan, Lucy Phelps and Freya Mavor as the Boleyn siblings.

    The Other Boleyn Girl review – the sexual strategising of the conniving Boleyn family brought sharply to life

  • Sunset Song review – a lively if melodramatic take on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel

  • Romesh Ranganathan review – misanthropic midlife everyman wears his world-weariness well

  • The week in theatre: Machinal; Blue Beard; The Cord – review

  • Doctor Brown: Beturns review – the original clown prince in total control

  • You Are Going to Die review – nothing is off-limits in this naked meditation on mortality

  • KVN Dance Company: Coppélia review – a fun mashup of beats, belts and ballet

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Dance

  • Bolt from the blue … Jean Butler and Michael Flatley in Riverdance.

    ‘Michael Flatley appeared like a rockstar’: how Riverdance gave the jig cool factor

    Thirty years ago, Riverdance’s groundbreaking Eurovision interval performance ignited a new generation’s devotion to Irish dancing
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Comedy

  • Nish Kumar.

    Nish Kumar: ‘It would be very cool if I was named the next James Bond’

  • Rose Matafeo.

    ‘It’s been a thrill!’ My first time at the mind-boggling Melbourne comedy festival

  • Comedian Urooj Ashfaq

    Urooj Ashfaq: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • a man with dark hair in a suit holds a microphone

    No Jerry Seinfeld, the ‘extreme left’ hasn’t killed comedy

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Theatre

  • Priscilla the Party!

    Priscilla the Party! to close more than four months early

  • Ncuti Gatwa.

    Ncuti Gatwa cast in National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest

  • The BAFTA Tea Party Presented by Nina Hoss.Delta Air Lines And Virgin Atlantic - Portraits<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 14: Nina Hoss attends the BAFTA Tea Party Presented by Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic on January 14, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/BAFTA/Contour by Getty Images)

    Nina Hoss: ‘London is more driven. In the theatre, people are full of positive energy’

  • On guard … The Divine Mrs S.

    ‘We still haven’t cracked it!’: How much does a play change during previews?

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From the archive

  • ‘That’s some pretty weird shit’ … Paul Auster.

    Paul Auster on City of Glass on stage: 'This goes beyond the realms of my imagination'

    28 March 2017: No one thought his metaphysical thriller could work as a play. But technology has made it possible. We meet Paul Auster as he takes a VR trip inside his own head – and recalls what he learned from Beckett while penniless in Paris

Pictures & video

  • Olivier Awards 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall some members of the cast of Guys and Dolls

    Guys, dolls and an A-list cast: behind the curtains at the Olivier awards

  • Joseph Sissens rehearsing Dark With Excessive Bright at Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House

    Dark With Excessive Bright: the Royal Ballet’s giant leap into immersive dance

    The Royal Opera House’s Linbury theatre will be transformed for Canadian choreographer Robert Binet’s new show, where the audience can roam freely. Take a first look
  • Chita Rivera in 1999.

    Chita Rivera – a life in pictures

    The Broadway star has died aged 91. Revisit her glittering career, including West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image shot 1960. Exact date unknown.<br>KPH2P7 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image shot 1960. Exact date unknown.

    Shirley Anne Field: a life in pictures

  • Zephaniah used his career to address political injustice through poetry

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    The life and rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah – video obituary

  • Louis McCartney (Henry Creel), Ella Karuna Williams (Patty Newby) - photo by Manuel Harlan Stranger Things: The First Shadow production images

    The West End turns upside down … Stranger Things: The First Shadow

  • A scene from Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate at Sadler's Wells.

    Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

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You may have missed

  • Gillian Slovo.

    ‘I was brought up among giants’: Gillian Slovo on her revolutionary parents – and her mother’s murder

  • OA Tales of Hoffman<br>Tales of Hoffman; Opera Australia; Dress Rehearsal; July 2023

    Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change

    2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam
  • ‘It was crazy and it was freezing’ … Lil Nas X’s tastefully pixelated Industry Baby video.

    ‘They’re not ashamed of their bodies’: Sean Bankhead on his raunchy dances for Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lil Nas X and more

    He’s the world’s hottest choreographer, the man who cooks up steamy videos and stage shows for giants of music. But does the Atlanta star ever think he goes too far? Quite the opposite …
  • Adrian Schiller (Shylock) in The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare @ Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe. Directed by Abigail Graham. (Opening 02-03-2022) ©Tristram Kenton 02-22 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Adrian Schiller obituary

  • David Harewood

    ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

  • Francesca Mills

    ‘Expect more from me’: actor Francesca Mills on Shakespeare and shifting expectations

  • Isabelle Huppert

    Isabelle Huppert: ‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’

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