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  • Ballet Black, Heroes Dress Rehearsal, Hackney Empire

    Ballet Black: Heroes review – double bill explores everyday heroism and the purgatory of daily life

    Sophie Laplane’s If at First switches so fast stylistically that it might be garbled, while Mthuthuzeli November’s The Waiting Game stages an existential crisis
  • Matt Miller in Fixing.

    Fixing review – delightful off-road adventure about family mechanics

  • Ncuti Gatwa, Eliza Scanlen and Sharon D Clarke star in Max Webster’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre, London.

    The importance of freeing Earnest – without bursting Oscar Wilde’s ‘delicate bubble of fancy’

  • Treasure Island at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh

    Deck the stalls! 20 of the UK’s best festive theatre shows

  • Who sent the wrong flowers to Donatella? … Vanessa Williams, centre, as the legendary editor.

    ‘Every minute at Vogue felt like an emergency’: Devil Wears Prada author Lauren Weisberger on igniting a scandal

  • Miriam Margolyes (Maud), Antony Sher (Clive), Julie Covington (Edward) and William Hoyland (Harry Bagley) in Cloud 9 at the Royal Court, London, in 1979. It was previously performed in Dartington.

    The play that changed my life: Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9

Reviews

  • Happy holidays … Harris Beattie as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol by Northern Ballet at Sheffield Lyceum.

    Northern Ballet: A Christmas Carol review – a magical night in snow-globe Victoriana

    Beautifully staged and danced with bonneted and bewhiskered brio, Dickens’s classic dose of festive escapism is the gift that keeps on giving
  • Clare Foster (Elowen) and John Dagleish (Benjamin) in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button @ Ambassadors Theatre. Book & Lyrics by Jethro Compton. Music & Lyrics by Darren Clark. (Opening 06-11-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 11-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review – warm and winsome musical tugs at the heartstrings

  • Hannah Ekholm, front, Jasper Narvaez and Faye Stoeser in Rorschach by Ekleido at Place theatre.

    Ekleido review – Floating Points’ brilliant beats propel duo’s dazzling dance

  • Pontypool review – scattershot horror with a shock jock but few frights

  • Nutcracker in Havana review – Carlos Acosta is in a sunny mood this Christmas

  • Summer 1954 review – Rattigan double bill packs an intellectual and emotional punch

  • The week in theatre: Dr Strangelove; Barcelona; Quiet Songs – review

  • Royal Ballet: Legacy review – a joyous celebration of Black and Brown brilliance

  • Kenrex review – Jack Holden is astonishing in a play that grips like a true-crime podcast

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Dance

  • Three people pull on a fourth using a scarf around her waist, in the desert

    ‘Look at the camera as if it’s your enemy’: Shobana Jeyasingh’s desert dance among Hollywood ghosts

    The choreographer describes her challenging film shoot in the Spanish desert, where dancers are pitted against scorpions, fierce winds and punishing sun
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Comedy

  • Janey Godley in 2019.

    Susie McCabe on Janey Godley: ‘Audiences roared and she made it look effortless’

  • man in fedora hat looking off to the right

    ‘I was a coke fiend, I made a lot of bad choices’: Garrett Morris on SNL’s early days – and how the show lost its courage

  • Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe speaking at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, in New York, on Sunday.

    Insult comedy and the right wing’s budding bromance

  • Pressure from every side … Babatunde Aléshé.

    Babatunde Aléshé: ‘Dipsy from the Teletubbies got me into comedy’

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Theatre

  • Kwame Kwei-Armah

    Kwame Kwei-Armah: arts education cuts pose danger to diversity in theatre

  • Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake during their Super Bowl performance in 2004.

    ‘One thing goes wrong and that’s it’: how Janet Jackson’s career was wrecked in a split second

  • Anne-Marie Duff shot for OM

    ‘The flaws are the sexy bits’: Anne-Marie Duff on courage, curiosity and the rare gifts of ageing

  • Illustration - Man with a hip flask in inside pocket in theatre

    You be the judge: should my husband stop smuggling his hip flask into the theatre where I work?

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Pictures & video

  • A wisdom mask, monkey mask and okina mask

    Face value: the masterly theatrical masks of Kitazawa Hideta

  • Ensemble cast members apply their make-up in 'the bunker' mid-show

    Behind the scenes with The Lion King in London at 25

    Our photographer is given backstage access at The Lion King in the lead up to the 25th anniversary of the London production at the Lyceum Theatre. Since 19 October 1999 the musical has been seen by more than 19 million theatregoers
  • Hadewych van Gent, one of the academy's students, plays her cello for the first time after a repair.

    In the workshop with the Royal Academy of Music’s luthiers

    The academy’s luthiers are responsible for conserving and maintaining the academy collections of bows and stringed instruments
  • Maggie Smith.

    Maggie Smith: a life in pictures

  • A scene from Now by Jasmin Vardimon Company

    Jasmin Vardimon toasts 25 years of dance with Now

  • Michaela DePrince poses en pointe in front of interior full-length window

    Michaela Mabinty DePrince: a life in pictures

  • Rachael Gunn

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    'It was really sad': Raygun speaks about reaction to Paris 2024 breakdancing performance

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    Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

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    The art of audio description can turn dance into a moving experience for all

    Stopgap’s revelatory stage production Lived Fiction is committed to opening up dance for the whole audience
  • Jeevan Braich as Rusty, far right, with the cast of Starlight Express.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Starlight Express, Nye, Beat the Devil and more

  • She stands with two men in colourful masks and jerseys, smiling, one with fried chicken

    ‘I’ve stumbled deep into alien territory’: our sportswriters and arts critics swap jobs

  • ‘This is what the city is really like at night’ … Walter Hill’s 1979 gang warfare epic.

    ‘Every fear you’re supposed to have as a New Yorker’: rebooting The Warriors

  • Ken Campbell, circa early 1977.

    The play that changed my life: Jim Broadbent on Ken Campbell’s electrifying epic Illuminatus!

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