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Stage

  • David Suchet

    The best theatre to stream this month: David Suchet’s Poirot secrets, Oklahoma! and more

    This month’s roundup includes the versatile actor’s 75th birthday show, Succession’s Harriet Walter playing Lorca’s matriarch and supreme showman Hugh Jackman in the classic musical
  • Marty Rea, Imogen Doel, Hazel Doupe, Risteárd Cooper and Niamh Cusack in Circle Mirror Transformation.

    Circle Mirror Transformation review – Annie Baker’s drama class is a lesson in power-play

  • 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 – in pictures

  • David Baddiel sitting on bench among trees.

    David Baddiel: trauma passed on from Holocaust is why I do comedy

  • Marcello Magni and Simon McBurney in the 2005 revival of A Minute Too Late, which was first performed in 1985.

    The play that changed my life: Complicité’s A Minute Too Late was a matter of life and death

  • Jessica Lange in The Great Lillian Hall

    The Great Lillian Hall review – Jessica Lange captivates in Broadway-set drama

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Reviews

  • Rhianna-Dorris-Melissa-Milcote-Louisa-Binder-Young-Alexander-in-Coram-Boy-at-Chichester-Festival-Theatre-Photo-Manuel-Harlan-128

    Coram Boy review – hectic melodrama about the Georgian-era baby trade

    The performances are strong, but can’t rescue a convoluted adaptation of Jamila Gavin’s award-winning novel about foundlings and orphans sold to criminals for a shilling
  • Jazz Jenkins and Hannah van der Westhuysen in Fabulous Creatures at the Arcola theatre, London.

    Fabulous Creatures review – Odyssean monsters croon a vengeful revision guide

  • Eddie Izzard during her Hamlet performance.

    Hamlet review – one-woman juggling act exposes limits of Eddie Izzard’s acting ability

  • Edinburgh international children’s festival review – sensory magic and complex ideas made fun

  • Swim, Aunty, Swim! review – a funny, touching tale of female friendship

  • Marc Brew and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: An Accident/A Life review – brutal and tender

  • The week in theatre: Romeo & Juliet; Richard III; Passing Strange review – no fault in these stars

  • Compagnie Maguy Marin: May B review – an absurdly beautiful dance translation of Samuel Beckett

  • Bluets review – Maggie Nelson’s blue riffs become left-field cine-theatre

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Dance

  • Mosh, written and directed by Ní Bhraonáin and choreographed by Robyn Byrne

    ‘A good way to get out stress’: the magnetic force of the mosh pit

    When she first went moshing, Rachel Ní Bhraonáin couldn’t stop giggling. Now she has made a dance show about the ‘gorgeous community’ she encountered
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Comedy

  • Stevie Martin.

    Stevie Martin: I auditioned for Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar in a haze of fear

  • ‘We might even crack out a song if you’re lucky’ … Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.

    Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith announce stage version of Inside No 9

  • Anuvab Pal

    ‘Punching up against colonialism is glorious!’ The unstoppable rise of Indian comedy in the UK

  • Billy Connolly in Big Banana Feet.

    Dawn of the Big Yin: rediscovered film shows Billy Connolly on the road to comedy glory

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Theatre

  • Jessie Buckley singing on stage in a scene from the film Wild Rose

    Wild Rose: film about Glaswegian country singer to be turned into stage musical

  • Performers in silver bodysuits wearing colourful cartoon-like heads

    Exit, pursued by a panda: the Brits bringing eye-popping Shakespeare to the Baltics

  • Next to Normal

    ‘They’re about the mess of being human’: how the mental health musical won over the West End

  • the animated film version of Coraline.

    Neil Gaiman’s Coraline to become ‘dark, spangly’ stage musical

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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

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

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

  • 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

    Guardian photographer Christian Sinibaldi attended the annual theatre bash to catch Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook and Cara Delevingne roaming around backstage at the Royal Albert Hall
  • 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

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    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

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You may have missed

  • Helen Lederer, John Cleese and Alexei Sayle.

    ‘This is a ticking time bomb’: why are so many entertainers forced to work past retirement age?

  • Close up of Timothy Spall holding a Bafta award up to his face

    Next UK government must not treat arts as ‘bloodsucker’, says Timothy Spall

    Actor calls on whoever wins on 4 July to recognise what the arts bring to society, as Salford’s Lowry theatre turns 25
  • Burlesque dance instructor Evana De Lune gives a lesson to students at Tropical Soul Dance, Annandale, Sydney, Australia, 26 May 2024.

    My first time at a burlesque class: ‘Could I thrust with a force that could kill a man?’

    In her fortnightly review of fitness and wellbeing activities, comedian Jennifer Wong overcomes her apprehension of ‘whorish vagina dancing’ – and then the gloves come off
  • Liz White, Lemn Sissay and Faye Marsay in a 2017 revival of Road by Jim Cartwright at the Royal Court theatre, London, directed by John Tiffany.

    The play that changed my life: Jim Cartwright’s ‘rude, raucous and deadly serious’ Road

  • ‘An ideal play’ … The Two Gentlemen of Verona in rehearsals led by Greg Doran at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

    ‘They’re teaching me’: Greg Doran on staging Shakespeare with students

  • Tom Lehrer peers over a copy of his debut LP.

    ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?

  • Benjamin Millepied, ballet and dance choreographer

    Benjamin Millepied on queering Romeo and Juliet: ‘In France they called me woke’

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