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Stage

  • Danny Sapani, Daniel Lapaine and Judith Roddy in Between Riverside and Crazy at Hampstead theatre.

    Between Riverside and Crazy review – Danny Sapani’s ex-cop faces down the past

    Strong performances and jibing humour propel this exuberant but flawed revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2014 play about racism in the New York police forc
  • Rachelle Diedericks (left) as Christine and Nadia Parkes as Julie in The House Party at Minerva theatre, Chichester.

    The House Party review – teenage debauchery brings Strindberg to Saltburn

  • J Smith-Cameron and Mark Rylance.

    Succession’s J Smith-Cameron to star opposite Mark Rylance in Juno and the Paycock

  • Everything seems a humiliation … Tamsin Greig and Finbar Lynch in The Deep Blue Sea at Theatre Royal Bath.

    The Deep Blue Sea review – Tamsin Greig adds bite to Terence Rattigan

  • Margaret Williams Italy 2012-photographer Stephanie Matthews

    Margaret Williams obituary

  • Prunella Scales pictured last year at home in south London.

    Prunella Scales returns to role of Queen Victoria for Edinburgh fringe show

Reviews

  • Rhod Gilbert

    Rhod Gilbert and the Giant Grapefruit review – hilarity and horror on standup’s cancer journey

    Now free of cancer, Gilbert looks back on his illness with a characteristic mixture of emotional candour and uproarious humour
  • Beth Marshall as Thatcher holds up a proclamation reading Section 28

    Maggie & Me review – Damian Barr’s raw memoir gets an overcooked staging

  • Katy Baird holds a stuffed bunny

    Get Off review – walking the uncomfortable line between desire and disgust

  • Mary Said What She Said review – Isabelle Huppert dazzles in a one-woman tour de force

  • The week in theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Minority Report; Laughing Boy – review

  • The Winter’s Tale review – Royal Ballet’s powerful war of the worlds

  • Twelfth Night review – splashes of fun beside the seaside

  • Punch review – James Graham’s tragic study of a fatal blow

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

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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

  • Anuvab Pal

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

  • 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’

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Theatre

  • 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

  • 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’

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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

  • Benjamin Millepied, ballet and dance choreographer

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

    The Black Swan choreographer is bringing his unique take on Shakespeare to Sydney – involving cameras and dancers running outside the Opera House
  • From left: Reece Lyons, Mariah Louca and Kim Tatum.

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

    Kim Tatum, Mariah Louca and Reece Lyons combine to call for trans women to be put on an equal footing for cis roles
  • ‘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

  • two women in glamorous denim outfits

    Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic lead 2024 Tony nominations

  • On guard … The Divine Mrs S.

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

  • 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

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