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Stage

  • David Sedaris.

    David Sedaris is an icon of indignation in a world that keeps on irking

    The American humorist delighted the Royal Festival Hall with characteristically disgruntled slices of life – including a brush with cancel culture
  • Alternating between inflated and deflated states … Baoum!

    Acrobats on a bridge, dance in the cathedral: Lausanne’s free festival of priceless performance

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

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

  • Brassed Off.

    Brassed Off review – miners’ music brings film to life on stage

  • l-r: Daran Johnson, Al Roberts and Liam Williams

    ‘We write something and it can be in the show that night’: Sheeps on the freedom of Edinburgh fringe

  • Two children in rehearsal hold up signs with the word 'all rise'

    ‘A lot of stereotypes to break’: Children’s Inquiry musical explores life in care in Britain

Reviews

  • Electrifying … Phoebe Campbell, right, as firebrand Nikki with Justine Mitchell as Jo in Alma Mater.

    Alma Mater review – skeletons escape closets in campus rape drama

    Kendall Feaver’s play dissects white privilege and a university’s #MeToo moment that begins when a student speaks out after being sexually assaulted
  • A man of many parts … Khalid Abdalla in Mnemonic at Olivier theatre London.

    Mnemonic review – Complicité’s brainteaser goes back to the future

  • A scene from Glitch

    Glitch review – dynamically delivered drama about the Post Office scandal

  • Carlos Acosta’s Carmen review – a giddy Cuban tragedy

  • Tweedy’s Massive Circus review – a lovable lark from start to finish

  • Enitan’s Game review – warm-hearted children’s show from Punchdrunk Enrichment

  • Starlight Express review – Lloyd Webber’s bizarre juggernaut is bigger, camper and more OTT than ever

  • Radiant Vermin review – Faustian take on getting a foot on the property ladder

  • The Secret Garden review – inspired reimagining of children’s classic

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Dance

  • ‘You’re faced with your mortality – that’s what the show is about”… Crazy Smooth, centre, performs In My Body.

    Breakdancing in your 50s: ‘My body can still do everything – but it might take a year to heal an injury’

    The cast of Canadian B-boy Crazy Smooth’s new show on their breathtaking moves, their multiple surgeries and why hip-hop needs ‘living libraries’ of experience
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Comedy

  • Returning as compere for its birthday bash … Johnny Vegas.

    ‘Punters let me cut their hair!’ Johnny Vegas on the wild pub that launched his career

  • Olga Koch, with a suit jacket but no shirt underneath and holding a cigarette, smiles slightly as she touches her sunglasses as a man in a baseball cap swings a golf club behind her in a field

    Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows

  • Just the ticket … audience interactions are propelling comedians to stardom

    How viral ‘crowd work’ clips are remaking standup for the social media age

  • Nish Kumar.

    Surprise election forces comedians to tear up Edinburgh festival scripts

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Theatre

  • Ian McKellen

    Ian McKellen pulls out of Player Kings national tour after fall from stage

  • Alfie Friedman in rehearsal for Dorian: the Musical

    Fame, lust and drugs: Dorian Gray staged as a genderfluid rock musical

  • Mark Uhre as Nick Bottom with members of the company in Something Rotten!. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: Ann Baggley.

    O, Canada! The Bard is ribbed and revered at Ontario’s Stratford festival

  • Giles Terera as Aaron Burr, centre, in Hamilton on London’s West End.

    ‘I fell in love with Hamilton – it gave me confidence for my own script’

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Pictures & video

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

    A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic – in pictures

  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down’s syndrome

    Fierce and fantastic, the artists who make up the collective Drag Syndrome explain why performing helps them express who they really are
  • 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

    Jeremy Strong, Daniel Radcliffe, Ariana DeBose and Angelina Jolie were among the crowd for the 77th annual Tony awards, held in New York on Sunday
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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You may have missed

  • Alastair Whatley in The Importance of Being Oscar.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

  • ‘The worst of many painful moments’ … then culture secretary Nadine Dorries in 2022, the year of her ‘letter of instruction’.

    ‘Culture embarrasses them’: how 14 years of Tory fiascos strangled arts in the UK

    They came to power promising ‘a golden age for the arts’. Now, 12 disastrous culture secretaries later, they leave it in tatters. What a stunning missed opportunity to capitalise on an asset that was the envy of the world
  • Girl playing a trumpet

    The human need for arts in state schools

    Letters: Readers respond to a call from theatre leaders to challenge the erosion and devaluation of artistic subjects
  • At the heart of the exhibition hall are the Folger’s crown jewels: its 82 copies of the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

    ‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside Washington DC’s $80m library renovation

  • 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

  • Florentina Holzinger

    Bring on the naked rollerskating nuns! The wild visions of Florentina Holzinger

  • The cast of Dear England in the West End 2023.

    Play about England football team to return with potential for new final act

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