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Stage

  • Touching and harrowing … Brew in An Accident/A Life.

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

    Brew revisits the car crash at the beginning of his ballet career that killed his three companions and left him paraplegic
  • Next to Normal

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

  • The entrance to the Butterfly Club

    Melbourne Fringe drops the Butterfly Club over allegations of verbal abuse and threatening behaviour

  • Laurenson as Prof George Amory in the ITV series Endeavour, 2017.

    James Laurenson obituary

  • the animated film version of Coraline.

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

  • Black Swan territory … Die Hundekot-Attacke (The Dog Poop Attack), a co-production by Wunderbaum and Theaterhaus Jena.

    Dog Poop Attack: the play that dishes dirt on theatre-world animosities

Reviews

  • Karlina Grace-Paseda and Evelyn Duah sitting on the edge of a swimming-pool set

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

    Three women push themselves beyond the local swimming pool and into the unknown in Siana Bangura’s buoyant, enlightening new play
  • Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Juliet, with Kody Mortimer (camera operator) in Romeo & Juliet.

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

  • A group of dancers dressed in white with their faces painted white

    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

  • The Bounds review – losers are the focus in this story of 16th-century footballers

  • Romeo & Juliet review – Tom Holland enters to whoops as Francesca Amewudah-Rivers shows a steely cool

  • Swim, Aunty, Swim! review – powerful tale of women healed by water in an empty pool

  • The Women of Llanrumney review – blistering dissection of slavery as the sugar crop fails

  • Pieces of a Woman review – shame runs riot after a home birth ends in disaster

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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

  • Anuvab Pal

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

  • ‘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

  • 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

  • Nadia Fall

    Young Vic theatre announces Nadia Fall as new artistic director

  • Lucy Tregear as Meg Page, Richard Cordery as Sir John Falstaff and Claire Carrie as Alice Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Old Vic, London, in 2003.

    Need proof who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor

  • Queen of rock’n’roll … Tina Turner on stage in 1983.

    Tina Turner’s honesty about trauma continues to inspire, says writer of West End hit

  • Jessica Murrain in Cutting the Tightrope at the Arcola.

    Artists shouldn’t be political? Here’s a show that challenges Britain’s creeping censorship

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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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You may have missed

  • ‘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

  • 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

    Our new series on transformative theatrical discoveries begins with the surreal 1986 drama set on a street in Lancashire
  • 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?

    In the 1950s and 60s, his songs stunned and delighted listeners with their irreverence, wit and nihilism. Then he gave it all up to teach mathematics. Lehrer is still alive at 96 – so I went in search of answers
  • Benjamin Millepied, ballet and dance choreographer

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

  • ‘Move forward – or become irrelevant’ … Robbie Fairchild, Briana Craig and Uggie.

    ‘All anyone will care about is the dog!’ Oscar sensation The Artist hits the stage

  • two women in glamorous denim outfits

    Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic lead 2024 Tony nominations

  • 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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