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Stage

  • Mark Watson Edinburgh Fringe

    ‘It ends with me crying in a pink cycle helmet’: Edinburgh fringe comics pitch their own Baby Reindeer

    With every streaming service now searching for their version of the Netlfix hit, Mark Watson, Lucy Porter, Celya Ab and more pitch the TV show of their lives, from real-life origin stories and flights of fancy to, erm, Baby Reindeer
  • Terf at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.

    Terf review – JK Rowling meets Harry Potter cast to row tediously in play about trans rights

  • OddCouple

    Comedy couple Jessie Cave and Alfie Brown: ‘We don’t know how to function as adults’

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

    ‘My poor kid has been haunted by it’: Harry Potter and the reviewer that mattered most

    Jack Thorne
  • A lab, a haven … Afolabi Alli, Matthew Romain and Harry Treadaway rehearsing for The Grapes of Wrath.

    ‘It’s the talent pipeline’: inside the National Theatre’s hit-making hothouse

Reviews

  • Two male dancers on stage, one about to do a handstand or flip, with his feet in the air

    Venice Dance Biennale: There Was Still Time; Folklore Dynamics review – full of ideas and intent

    Hip-hop meets Samuel Beckett in one of two new commissions by Italian choreographers, while the other struggles under the weight of its ambition
  • Deborah Findlay, Anjli Mohindra, Gina McKee, Harmony Rose-Bremner and Romola Garai in The Years.

    The Years review – Annie Ernaux’s faint-inducing masterpiece roars into devastating life

  • The Grapes of Wrath at the Lyttleton, National Theatre.

    The Grapes of Wrath review – dark moments on a long jalopy ride through a shattered world

  • Eng-Er-Land review – why Lizzie the football fan wants to be thinner, prettier and whiter

  • Death of England: The Plays review – Brexit-voting bailiff electrifies this post-Boris revamp

  • The Promise review – high drama of Labour landslide collapses into argufying

  • Please Right Back review – exquisitely crafted hybrid of animation and performance

  • Barnum review – dazzling all-singing, all-juggling musical

  • Your Lie in April review – new musical of the manga romance somehow works

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Dance

  • Waves by Cloud Gate

    Let’s get physical: the science of dance at the Venice Biennale

    The dance festival’s opening weekend, under the theme We Humans, focused as much on gravity and technology as emotional connection
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Comedy

  • JOSH THOMAS

    ‘People would clap, and I’d feel repulsed’: Josh Thomas on quitting standup – and what brought him back

  • A waiter delighting customers over breakfast.

    Eggs, bacon, banter: the Scottish hotel trying to make breakfast the funniest meal of the day

  • Hannah Platt posing with bouffant red hair and a stylised nosebleed that meets her red lipstick

    Hannah Platt: ‘I’m a crotchety old man trapped in the body of a little girl’

  • Fatma Aydemir

    When a bad Trump joke becomes an affair of state, Germany has lost more than its sense of humour

    Fatma Aydemir
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Theatre

  • Lindsay Duncan in Dear Octopus.

    The best theatre to stream this month: comedians do Chekhov, Into the Woods and Dear Octopus

  • ‘There’s the opportunity to join a cult – or even duel’ … Emily Carding in The Key of Dreams.

    ‘A torch illuminates a human skull!’ My horror all-nighter in a haunted manor

  • ‘She could have been as famous as Nye Bevan’ … Ellen Wilkinson.

    ‘A moment to create the country they dreamed of’: Labour’s 1945 landslide becomes a play for today

  • Peter Charlesworth show business agent

    Peter Charlesworth obituary

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Pictures & video

  • James Corden delays play to watch Euros penalty shootout with audience

  • Rehearsals for The School for Scandal at the Royal Shakespeare theatre

    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC

    Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company this month by director Tinuke Craig. Enter a backstage world of wigs, fans and frocks
  • Groundbreaking … a scene from Mnemonic, conceived by Simon McBurney.

    A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic

    Twenty-five years after its first production, Complicité’s play about memory is revived at the National Theatre in London
  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down’s syndrome

  • Maleah Joi Moon and the cast of Hell’s Kitchen perform onstage during the 77th annual Tony awards at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Sunday

    Tony awards 2024: red carpet looks and best of the show

  • Derek Deane, back centre, with English National Ballet rehearsing Swan Lake In-The-Round by Derek Deane, opening at The Royal Albert Hall on 12th June. Rehearsals taking place at ENB Headquarters at Hopewell Sq, Canning Town. (Opening 12-06-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 05-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Now spread your wings! Flock of 100 dancers star in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake

  • Is that a debit column? … a scene from The Accountants.

    Bookkeeping with a bang: Manchester’s stage spectacular The Accountants

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You may have missed

  • Ian McKellen as Estragon and Patrick Stewart as Vladimir in Waiting For Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2009.

    The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

  • Brian Logan and Shamira Turner in Human Jam at Camden People's theatre in 2019.

    Tiny theatres take big risks – in cautious and precarious times, their survival is vital

    We need to keep open offbeat DIY spaces that belong to artists and communities. Even if the odd performance sells zero tickets, they push theatre forward
  • Caught … Red Speedo, about an elite swimmer who dopes.

    Hope, hopelessness and heroism: why theatre is making a splash with sport

    From the Gareth Southgate play Dear England to Red Speedo, about a swimmer caught doping, dramatists are using sport to examine class, race, morality – and life in Britain today
  • ‘Life is short. I try to enjoy everything: sitting in the park, looking at the trees, seeing friends and family’: Penelope Wilton.

    Penelope Wilton: ‘My street cred went up when I did Shaun of the Dead’

  • Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy leaves 10 Downing Street after first cabinet meeting of Labour government.

    Investment in the arts will pay off for Lisa Nandy

  • Christopher Villiers and Nancy Carroll

    Actors’ show-stopping art exhibition: ‘We’re used to rejection so nothing was turned down!’

  • Nicholas Serota

    Britain needs a cultural reboot. Here’s my five-point plan to fix the arts

    Nicholas Serota
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