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Stage

  • 1927's new show Please Right Back

    Edinburgh festival 2024: 12 tips for families

    With manga circus, a Jaffa Cake musical, silly science and a llama adventure, there is something to entertain audiences of all ages this summer
  • Blue-collar lives … Skeleton Crew.

    Skeleton Crew review – America’s precariat show grit in the face of crisis

  • Playwright Dominique Morisseau in Manhattan in 2021.

    ‘Friends and family were afraid, anxious, heartbroken’: Dominique Morisseau on the decline of Detroit

  • Little room to breathe … Zheng Xi Yong, Rachel Clare Chan, Mia Kobayashi and Dean John-Wlson in Your Lie in April.

    Your Lie in April review – high-school musical mixes manga aesthetics with Broadway sound

  • Fuerza Bruta Aven

    Acrobatic theatre troupe Fuerza Bruta on breaking barriers – and the fourth wall

  • James Corden punches the air on stage at London’s Old Vic theatre as members of the audience smile

    James Corden delays start of play to let audience watch Euros penalty shootout

Reviews

  • Tron Theatre - Radiant Vermin - credit Mihaela Bodlovic 1

    Radiant Vermin review – cartoonish descent into property hell

    A couple stop at nothing to secure their first home in Johnny McKnight’s deliciously fast-paced production of Philip Ridley’s Faustian black comedy
  • Richard Katz, Kostas Philippoglou and Sarah Slimani in Mnemonic

    The week in theatre: Mnemonic; The Secret Garden; The Herds – review

  • Carmen by Carlos Acosta and Acosta Danza at Sadler’s Wells.

    Acosta Danza: Carlos Acosta’s Carmen review – never quite reaches boiling point

  • Brassed Off review – miners’ music brings film to life on stage

  • Alma Mater review – skeletons escape closets in campus rape drama

  • Mnemonic review – Complicité’s brainteaser goes back to the future

  • Glitch review – dynamically delivered drama about the Post Office scandal

  • Carlos Acosta’s Carmen review – a giddy Cuban tragedy

  • Tweedy’s Massive Circus review – a lovable lark from start to finish

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Dance

  • ‘You’re faced with your mortality – that’s what the show is about”… Crazy Smooth, centre, performs In My Body.

    Breakdancing in your 50s: ‘My body can still do everything – but it might take a year to heal an injury’

    The cast of Canadian B-boy Crazy Smooth’s new show on their breathtaking moves, their multiple surgeries and why hip-hop needs ‘living libraries’ of experience
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Comedy

  • David Sedaris.

    David Sedaris is an icon of indignation in a world that keeps on irking

  • l-r: Daran Johnson, Al Roberts and Liam Williams

    ‘We write something and it can be in the show that night’: Sheeps on the freedom of Edinburgh fringe

  • Returning as compere for its birthday bash … Johnny Vegas.

    ‘Punters let me cut their hair!’ Johnny Vegas on the wild pub that launched his career

  • Olga Koch, with a suit jacket but no shirt underneath and holding a cigarette, smiles slightly as she touches her sunglasses as a man in a baseball cap swings a golf club behind her in a field

    Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows

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Theatre

  • Ian McKellen

    Ian McKellen pulls out of Player Kings national tour after fall from stage

  • Alfie Friedman in rehearsal for Dorian: the Musical

    Fame, lust and drugs: Dorian Gray staged as a genderfluid rock musical

  • Giles Terera as Aaron Burr, centre, in Hamilton on London’s West End.

    ‘I fell in love with Hamilton – it gave me confidence for my own script’

  • Arifa Akbar

    If you want to know how free a society is, look at what’s happening in its theatres

    Arifa Akbar
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Pictures & video

  • Groundbreaking … a scene from Mnemonic, conceived by Simon McBurney.

    A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic – in pictures

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

    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

    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
  • The Constituent was due to begin just as players were lining up to take penalties to secure a place in the Euros semi-finals

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    James Corden delays play to watch Euros penalty shootout with audience – video

    The Constituent was due to begin just as players were lining up to take penalties to secure a place in the Euros semi-finals
  • ‘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

  • Alastair Whatley in The Importance of Being Oscar.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

  • ‘The worst of many painful moments’ … then culture secretary Nadine Dorries in 2022, the year of her ‘letter of instruction’.

    ‘Culture embarrasses them’: how 14 years of Tory fiascos strangled arts in the UK

    They came to power promising ‘a golden age for the arts’. Now, 12 disastrous culture secretaries later, they leave it in tatters. What a stunning missed opportunity to capitalise on an asset that was the envy of the world
  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

    Letters: Readers respond to a call from theatre leaders to challenge the erosion and devaluation of artistic subjects
  • At the heart of the exhibition hall are the Folger’s crown jewels: its 82 copies of the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

    ‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside Washington DC’s $80m library renovation

  • Tipping point … Anna Maxwell Martin as an MP and James Corden as an ex-serviceman in rehearsals.

    Racist taunts, rape threats and murder: Joe Penhall on his play about rage against MPs

  • Florentina Holzinger

    Bring on the naked rollerskating nuns! The wild visions of Florentina Holzinger

  • The cast of Dear England in the West End 2023.

    Play about England football team to return with potential for new final act

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