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  • Robyn Sinclair, Lawrence Hodgson-Mullings and Elliotte Williams-N'Dure in The Enormous Crocodile. Credit Manuel Harlan Croc-104

    The Enormous Crocodile review – Roald Dahl’s dastardly reptile stalks the stage

    This production for over-fours has clever touches, lively performances and splendid puppets but the songs and the story grow monotonous
  • Benjamin Zephaniah.

    Benjamin Zephaniah remembered by Michael Rosen, Kae Tempest and more

  • Ben Whishaw & Lucian Msamati to star in Waiting for Godot - Sep 2024

    Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to star in Waiting for Godot

  • Bill O'Neill: The Amazing Banana Brothers.

    Heard the one about the 80 banana skins? The chaotic world of comedy props

  • Iphigeneia at KVS

    ‘We’re in the now’: how Brussels theatre KVS keeps up to the minute

  • Solstice from Wild Rumpus at Battersea Arts Centre 2023

    Solstice review – a shimmering, heart-on-sleeve ode to nature for children

Reviews

  • Jared Harris, David Angland and Nicolas Tennant in The Homecoming at the Young Vic theatre.

    The Homecoming review – Pinter’s timeless study of toxic masculinity

    Playing a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny
  • (from left) Sario Solomon, Saori Oda and Masashi Fujimoto in Pacific Overtures at Menier Chocolate Factory.

    Pacific Overtures review – small Sondheim is beautifully done

  • Lucy Beaumont

    Lucy Beaumont: The Trouble & Strife! review – bottomless brunches and butlers in the buff

  • Oliver! review – tunes, glorious tunes and a thrillingly vivid production

  • £1 Thursdays review – nightclubbing, sex talk and big decisions

  • Jack and the Beanstalk review – a spirited panto with droll touches

  • Dreaming and Drowning review – a visceral but lyrical look at anxiety and acceptance

  • The week in theatre: Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba – review

  • Tambourines review – another reason to love Trajal Harrell

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Dance

  • Marion Cito.

    Marion Cito, ingenious costume designer to Pina Bausch, dies aged 85

    Cito, who had been a dancer herself, spent 40 years working for Tanztheater Wuppertal
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Comedy

  • Jason Manford, who posted on X: ‘What’s your take on litter inside a theatre? Is it audience or staff’s responsibility?’

    ‘Look at the bloody tip!’: Jason Manford blasts messy theatre audiences

  • Guz Khan at FarGo creative village in Coventry

    ‘On stage, I feel like we’re all in Year 11’: comedian Guz Khan on teaching and tough starts

  • Tom Allen

    Tom Allen: ‘At an early corporate gig, they opened the buffet in the middle of my set – everybody left’

  • Iliza Shlesinger.

    Iliza Shlesinger: ‘I’m thinking what many women are thinking – but saying it out loud’

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Theatre

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Pictures & video

  • 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

    Netflix’s phenomenally successful sci-fi horror saga continues with a new stage production, now running at the Phoenix theatre in London. Here’s an exclusive first look
  • A scene from Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate at Sadler's Wells.

    Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

    Cloud Gate return to Sadler’s Wells in London in their 50th anniversary year with a production inspired by the optical phenomenon known as a ‘lunar halo’
  • Dancers from the Northern Ballet

    Behind the scenes at Northern Ballet's The Nutcracker

  • A costume fitting for Katherine Kingsley who will play the Grand High Witch. The costume department at the National Theatre, during the creation of the National Theatre's newest production The WItches. London. Photograph by David Levene 21/9/23

    Bringing The Witches to life: motorised mice and hideous death masks

  • A scene from Nutcracker at Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, Southbank Centre. Directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie

    Sugar plum jazz: The Nutcracker at London’s new Tuff Nutt club

  • Joss Ackland in 2009

    Joss Ackland: a life in pictures

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You may have missed

  • Tall tales … the warehouse of panto treasures.

    ‘What do we clean the costumes with? Vodka!’ Inside Britain’s panto powerhouse

  • Dancers from the Northern Ballet perform during the final dress rehearsal of The Nutcracker at the Grand Theatre in Leeds on 28 November.

    Northern Ballet plans to use recorded music. What next, robot dancers?

    Letter: Tim Atkinson on the threat to the livelihoods of the Northern Ballet Sinfonia’s musicians
  • Dive straight in … Mike Birbiglia in The Old Man and the Pool

    The best theatre to stream this month: The Old Man and the Pool, Bedbound and more

    Watch Mike Birbiglia’s hit comedy about mortality, Colm and Brenda Meaney in Enda Walsh’s two-hander or choose from a flock of Swan Lakes
  • Debbie Chazen, Gemma Barnett Josh Glanc

    ‘Humour is our biggest cultural export’: behind the scenes at a groundbreaking Jewish panto

  • ‘Frickin’ phenomenal’ … Derry Girls star Harland and Harrelson rehearse.

    ‘I gasped when I read it’: Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American

  • Ian Spink

    Ian Spink obituary

  • Evlyne Oyedokun will play Ella in Cinderella: A Fairytale at Northern Stage.

    It’s ahead of you! 25 festive UK shows to book for Christmas

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