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  • Imelda Staunton in Hello, Dolly! at the Palladium.

    Hello, Dolly! review – Imelda Staunton plays the matchmaker with stunning results

    For all its Broadway dazzle and gags, this musical’s story of midlife bereavement and a second chance at love carries intense feeling
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    Forever (Immersion dans Café Müller de Pina Bausch) review – a heartbreaking redux

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  • La Vie Secrète des Vieux.

    La Vie Secrète des Vieux review – older people reveal the full glory of their sex lives

    There is gallows humour and unzipped ribaldry as a mischievous group share stories that are joyful, tender and sometimes eye-watering
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    The Paddington Bear Experience review – the Marmalade Day jamboree must go on!

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  • Several dancers pose as they learn the choreography

    ‘The classes just keep growing’: how K-pop dancing is taking off in the UK

    As the music genre’s popularity rises, dance classes are springing up. The Guardian goes along to give it a try
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  • Kyle Gass  performing with Tenacious D.

    Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers

  • Hannah Platt posing with bouffant red hair and a stylised nosebleed that meets her red lipstick

    Hannah Platt: ‘I’m a crotchety old man trapped in the body of a little girl’

  • Clowns perform in the Opening Cabaret at The London Clown Festival in London<br>Clown Furiozo performs in the Opening Cabaret at The London Clown Festival in London, Britain, July 8, 2024. Reuters/Hollie Adams

    Frightfully funny: is being roared at by a near-naked hardman really comedy?

  • Standup comedian on stage in a beam of light.

    Live comedy in UK has become serious business worth £1bn a year, study claims

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  • Tanya Reynolds with long, loose hair, wearing a grey marl knit tank top over a white short-sleeve shirt.

    Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds: ‘A clowning class changed my life’

  • Fangirls rehearsal pictures

    The musical that shows the true side of One Direction fans

  • Behind the scenes with Joseph Fiennes as he prepares for his role as Gareth Southgate in Dear England, at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End. London. Photograph by David Levene 9/1/24

    The mysterious art of the casting director: ‘When you see the truth in front of you, it’s the right person’

  • Name in lights … Elizabeth Newman in Sheffield.

    ‘Dream come true’: Elizabeth Newman to be Sheffield Theatres’ artistic director

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  • James Corden delays play to watch Euros penalty shootout with audience

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

    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC

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

    A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic

    Twenty-five years after its first production, Complicité’s play about memory is revived at the National Theatre in London
  • ‘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.
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    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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