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Stage

  • Brutal … Sitting in Limbo.

    Sitting in Limbo review – a rallying cry for the Windrush outrage

    Philip J Morris’s stage adaptation of the Bafta-winning film tells it straight as Anthony Bryan’s life is ripped apart
  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

  • Jonathan Bailey as Richard II.

    Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage

  • 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

  • Benedict Lombe wearing brown turban and gold hoops and cream adidas sweatshirt

    ‘We needed this’: UK audiences thirsty for black British love stories, says playwright

  • Player Kings billboard at the Noël Coward Theatre

    Ian McKellen’s understudy to perform in final London dates of Player Kings

Reviews

  • Set among today’s idle rich … The Importance of Being Earnest.

    The Importance of Being Earnest review – Algernon et al get a 21st-century makeover

    Director Josh Roche’s new perspective – complete with smartphones, Instagram and Whitney Houston – breathes fresh life into a familiar classic
  • Coercive control … Andrew Leung as Petruchio and Thalissa Teixeira as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew.

    The Taming of the Shrew review – full of foolishness, low on laughs

  • Kiss Me Kate at the Barbican.

    Kiss Me, Kate review – glorious music, falderol frivolity and Adrian Dunbar

  • Some Demon review – secrets and cynicism in an adult eating disorder unit

  • Dracula: The Bloody Truth review – defanged comedy stretches the joke too far

  • Tell Me How It Ends review – 80s-set HIV drama offers a blast of polemical power

  • My Fair Lady review – an abso-bloomin’-lutely loverly musical

  • Twelfth Night review – if music be the food of love, rave on

  • The week in theatre: A Child of Science; Wedding Band; No Love Songs – review

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Dance

  • ‘Yasmine has an athlete’s mindset – very sharp, very powerful’ … Yasmine Naghdi and Britt Tajet-Foxell.

    ‘If you slip, it hurts your soul’: the ballerina who asked a sports psychologist for coaching

    Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Naghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tells us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés
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Comedy

  • Maria Bamford - comedian - Ruffles credit Robyn Von Swank

    Maria Bamford: ‘I want to give Donald Trump a roundhouse to the bread basket’

  • Tyrone Pynor: ‘Better to ask forgiveness than permission. The internet taught me that.’

    Tyrone Pynor: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Abi Clarke.

    Standup and TikToker Abi Clarke: ‘Why did I get into comedy? Attention!’

  • Katherine Ryan

    Katherine Ryan criticises lack of women hosting late-night chatshows in UK

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Theatre

  • Jade Farnill and Elle Ideson perform the play 1988 by Hannah Scorer, in July 2023, during Out Loud, a Hull scratch night produced by Middle Child and Silent Uproar.

    Dramas in a crisis: England’s theatres commit to new plays at perilous time for arts

  • ‘How long have you been gay for?’ ‘About five minutes’ … Severs, sitting, and Pettet at Dennis Severs House in the 1980s.

    ‘The most promiscuous man in town’: the life, loves and legendary sex parties of Dennis Severs

  • Patti LuPone.

    ‘I can’t understand a lyric’: Patti LuPone laments lost art of projection in musical theatre

  • Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

    The Merry Wives of Windsor offers strong evidence that Shakespeare was not its author

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Pictures & video

  • 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

    An in-the-round production at the Royal Albert Hall in London features more than 100 performers – including 60 dancing swans. Tristram Kenton went into the rehearsals
  • Is that a debit column? … a scene from The Accountants.

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

    A world premiere presented by Factory International, The Accountants combines one tale of two auditing firms with another of friends who have connected British Indian and British Chinese heritages
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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You may have missed

  • Joyful … Gary McNair in Dear Billy.

    Edinburgh festival 2024: the best comedy, theatre and dance already reviewed

  • Dictators as gangsters … a cut-out of Hitler adorns a manuscript of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Brecht’s allegory about the Führer’s path to power.

    Glued to Hitler: what Brecht’s overlooked collages tell us about how fascism takes hold

    Throughout his life, the great German playwright made punky montages that explored how fascism infested the country he had to flee. Why have they taken so long to come to light?
  • Imelda Staunton and Olivia Colman

    Imelda Staunton and Olivia Colman call for urgent political support for the arts

    Exclusive: Actors call for all parties to back investment as figures suggest 16% cuts since 2017
  • An urban square in front of a grey stone Victorian institutional building, given extra colour by a mix of leafy trees and mural art on different walls and buildings

    Summerhall’s sale could devastate Edinburgh’s arts scene, say creative leaders

  • Suhani Shah holding her hands up

    ‘I haven’t been to school’: the superstar magician who has performed since she was six

  • Billy Connolly in Big Banana Feet.

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

  • David Suchet

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

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