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  • Kirsty Findlay as Maria, right.

    The Sound of Music review – charming musical nourishes the soul

    In our dark times, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classics offer a sugar-coated disguise for a show with political heft
  • Jessica Enemokwu, Paul Brendan and Sha Dessi in The Glorious French Revolution (or: why sometimes it takes a guillotine to get anything done) @ New Diorama Theatre. Written and Directed by Sam Ward. (Opening 18-11-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 11-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Glorious French Revolution review – a romp through history

  • We would like to hear about your favourite theatre shows of 2024.

    Tell us your favourite stage show of 2024

  • Tammy Faye’s Broadway opening in New York … (l-r) Jake Shears, Christian Borle, Katie Brayben, Elton John, Michael Cerveris and the cast.

    Elton John’s musical Tammy Faye to close on Broadway less than a month after opening

  • Suzi Ruffell

    Suzi Ruffell: ‘If a story is good enough for the pub, I’ll give it a go on stage’

  • Judith Jamison, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City

    Judith Jamison obituary

  • Reba Ayi-Sobsa and Ivan Oyik in By Their Fruits.

    By Their Fruits review – couples therapy meets multidimensional movement

    The heightened body language of a tempestuous couple breaks out into choreographed scenes in this play that reaches far beyond its restricted space
  • Hannah Ellis Ryan, Joe Gill and John O'Neill in Cock at 53two, Manchester.

    Cock review: love lies bleeding in Mike Bartlett’s bitter romantic triangle

  • A dancer from Rosas kneels stage-front, seemingly shouting with rage, in Exit Above.

    The week in dance: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas: Exit Above; Flawless: Past, Present, Future; Ballet Black: Heroes – review

  • The Scouse Red Riding Hood review – Grandma gets high in raucous adult panto

  • The Red Shoes review – the RSC’s restyled fairytale doesn’t fit properly

  • Wolves on Road review – high-tempo crypto tale offers poor return

  • MaddAddam review – an epic dance through Margaret Atwood’s dystopia

  • Distant Memories of the Near Future review – dating dystopia makes you glad to be alive now

  • Blood Show review – splattering violence becomes gross-out comedy

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  • Upbeat and convivial … Nobodaddy.

    Michael Keegan-Dolan’s house of dance: ‘I was so caught up with where I’m from – not any more’

    After root-and-branch reworkings of Giselle and Swan Lake, the celebrated Irish choreographer is back with Nobodaddy, a trip ‘through the bottomless pit’
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  • Frankie Monroe (Joe Kent-Walters)

    Alternative comedian Joe Kent-Walters: ‘I used to do a strip tease with carrier bags’

  • Janine Harouni’s show addresses her political differences with her Trump-supporting dad.

    ‘People feel terrible. They want to laugh’: can comedy make light of Trump 2.0?

  • Janey Godley in 2019.

    Susie McCabe on Janey Godley: ‘Audiences roared and she made it look effortless’

  • man in fedora hat looking off to the right

    ‘I was a coke fiend, I made a lot of bad choices’: Garrett Morris on SNL’s early days – and how the show lost its courage

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  • The Shakespeare Portraits

    Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

  • Emily Richard with husband Edward Petherbridge

    Emily Richard obituary

  • Sigourney Weaver will play Prospero.

    Sigourney Weaver’s West End debut as Prospero evokes a storm of past Tempests

  • Timothy West at Bristol Old Vic in rehearsals for King Lear in 2016.

    ‘In his company, you never knew what would happen next’: remembering Timothy West

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From the archive

  • ‘I knew I wasn’t going to get fired!’ … Idina Menzel as Elphaba in Wicked.

    ‘They changed my ending, I felt aghast’: how we made Wicked

    ‘I once performed Defying Gravity at the White House within spitting distance of the Obamas,’ says Idina Menzel. ‘In fact, I might actually have spat on them’

Pictures & video

  • Vladimir Shklyarov: a look back at the career of the acclaimed Russian ballet dancer – video

  • A scene from Maddaddam

    Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam morphs into a Wayne McGregor ballet

    A co-production between the Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada, MaddAddam opens at the Royal Opera House, London
  • Timothy West at the launch of Talking Statues in London, 2014.

    Timothy West – a life in pictures

    The actor Timothy West has died at the age of 90. We look back at his greatest stage and screen roles, from the BBC to the Royal Shakespeare Company
  • A wisdom mask, monkey mask and okina mask

    Face value: the masterly theatrical masks of Kitazawa Hideta

  • Ensemble cast members apply their make-up in 'the bunker' mid-show

    Behind the scenes with The Lion King in London at 25

  • Hadewych van Gent, one of the academy's students, plays her cello for the first time after a repair.

    In the workshop with the Royal Academy of Music’s luthiers

  • Maggie Smith.

    Maggie Smith: a life in pictures

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  • Miriam Margolyes (Maud), Antony Sher (Clive), Julie Covington (Edward) and William Hoyland (Harry Bagley) in Cloud 9 at the Royal Court, London, in 1979. It was previously performed in Dartington.

    The play that changed my life: Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9

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