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Stage

  • All the Andreas … Lewys Holt, A de la Fe and Bryn Thomas in The Passion of Andrea 2.

    The Passion of Andrea 2 review – Pythonesque dancefloor caper

    Three performers have knockabout fun in choreographer Simone Mousset’s well-crafted, supremely silly show
  • A dancing vision … left, Georgie Fellows as Sappho, and Eleanor Kane as Adore, in Sappho.

    Sappho review – the poet’s passions, from ancient Lesbos to spangly clubland

  • 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

  • Part Bertie Wooster, part dissolute swindler … Kiell Smith-Bynoe with Dan Skinner in The Government Inspector at Marylebone Theatre.

    The Government Inspector review – Ghosts stars team up for cartoonish corruption satire

  • ‘I’m not going to get any laughs in this’ … Greig and Chris take a break from rehearsals.

    ‘You wiped the floor with me!’ Tamsin Greig and Oliver Chris are having a riot with Rattigan

  • Barb Jungr and Julian Clary, pictured at The Café Carlyle in 2009

    How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met: ‘We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills’

Reviews

  • Homeric quest … Mone Kamishiraishi as Chihiro in Spirited Away at the Coliseum, London.

    Spirited Away review – Studio Ghibli gem becomes a theatrical feast

    Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece is brought to life with imaginative puppetry, wondrous music and moments of delicate poetry
  • The Accountants at Aviva Studios, Manchester

    The Accountants review – a dizzying bombardment of big questions

  • Comfortable in her characters’ skins … Rosie Holt as her Conservative MP alter ego.

    Rosie Holt: That’s Politainment review – Tory targets are a safe seat

  • Dugsi Dayz review – young Muslim answer to The Breakfast Club fizzles out

  • Much Ado About Nothing review – frothy fun to please the purists

  • York International Shakespeare festival review – the bard without borders

  • The week in theatre: The Buddha of Suburbia; Love’s Labour’s Lost – review

  • Boy Blue: Cycles review – a constantly shifting hip-hop high

  • The Cherry Orchard review – Benedict Andrews brings Chekhov bang up to date

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Dance

  • Sung Im Her, in a three-quarters-length-sleeved shirt and with gold lipstick, a fringe and long hair, points her finger and opens her mouth next to Martha Passakopoulou and Seo Jun Lee in Tomorrowisnowtodayisyesterday

    ‘The body is everything’: Sung Im Her’s insatiable desire for dance

    Each time she takes the stage, the Korean choreographer and dancer asks if it will be the last time. She reflects on crushing stereotypes, breaking into theatre and her 100 failed auditions
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Comedy

  • Billy Connolly in Big Banana Feet.

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

  • ‘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

  • "Dancing On Ice" Photocall<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 10: Lou Sanders attends the "Dancing On Ice" photocall at Bovingdon Film Studios on January 10, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage)

    Sunday with Lou Sanders: ‘A fireside pub table for games – Bananagrams, Scrabble’

  • Nish Kumar.

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

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Theatre

  • Sheridan Smith and Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus Wainwright blames UK’s ‘narrow outlook’ after Brexit for Opening Night’s flop

  • Adrian Dunbar

    ‘An exceptional experience’: Adrian Dunbar to curate Samuel Beckett festival in Liverpool

  • No strings attached … Mone Kamishiraishi as Chihiro rides the giant puppet dragon Haku in Spirited Away

    Spirited Away: ‘Every 20 minutes there’s something that would be another play’s finale’

  • Lily Allen at the opening night of The Pillowman in 2023.

    Lily Allen to star in new version of Hedda Gabler ‘absolutely for now’

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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

  • 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

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  • From left: Reece Lyons, Mariah Louca and Kim Tatum.

    ‘Just let us audition’: UK transgender actors appeal to be cast in non-trans roles

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    Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic lead 2024 Tony nominations

    Alicia Keys musical and play both score 13 nominations as Jeremy Strong and Rachel McAdams also recognized
  • On guard … The Divine Mrs S.

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

    It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music
  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • Gillian Slovo.

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

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