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Stage

  • Some literal swinging-from-the-chandeliers action in Corteo.

    Cirque du Soleil: Corteo review – high-risk, high-reward acrobatics are a giddy joy

    A clown’s funeral procession is the pretext for some of the most skilled performers in the business to swoop, float and fly through the air
  • Performance of a lifetime … George Fouracres as Lloyd Webber, backed by Flo & Joan.

    ‘King of the musicools!’ Inside the outrageous musical send-up of Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • A generous and humble improv performer … Tony Slattery on Whose Line Is It Anyway in 1988.

    Tony Slattery: the generous improv great whose successes masked his suffering

  • ‘A satire of pomposity and lies’ … Ruby Head, centre, in the RSC’s staging of Sarcophagus by Vladimir Gubarev at the Barbican, 1987.

    The play that changed my life: ‘Sarcophagus dealt with Chornobyl as a symptom of corruption in Russia’

  • Beverley Knight as Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

    Beverley Knight to play rock’n’roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

  • Brie Larson in Captain Marvel in 2019. She stars in Elektra, staged in Brighton and London.

    Electra-fying! Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson brings back an ancient avenger

Reviews

  • Abby McCann in Looking for Giants.

    Looking for Giants review – beautifully written erotic tales of fantasy and projection

    Cesca Echlin’s debut of three vignettes explores sadomasochistic dynamics, virtual romance and masturbatory pleasure
  • Dylan Corbett-Bader and Gemma Barnett play Jewish twins in Revenge: After The Levoyah

    Revenge: After the Levoyah review – five embark on a plot to kidnap Jeremy Corbyn

  • ‘A journey of spiritual and artistic evolution’ … Duran ‘Dee Dee’ Abdullah in Anima, part of Resolution festival at The Place theatre, London.

    Resolution festival review – scavenging predators and ex machina sirens

  • Tarantula review – extraordinary portrayal of the aftermath of senseless violence

  • The Maids review – Jean Genet’s chilling game of master and servant

  • Twelfth Night review – a musically uplifting, concept-heavy RSC production

  • Belly of the Beast review – harrowing moments in a trainee’s tale of school trauma

  • Titanique review – camp musical sails into silliness with Céline Dion onboard

  • Little Shop of Horrors review – classic rock musical gets exuberant modern-day treatment

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Dance

  • Sadlers Wells East

    Sadler’s Wells East review – all the right moves

    Built in Italian red brick by acclaimed Irish practice O’Donnell + Tuomey, Sadler’s Wells’s vibrant new sister theatre provides six dance studios, elegant auditorium – and a big welcome to all
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Comedy

  • Crowd of people dressed as clowns

    ‘It allowed me to be more myself’: how becoming a clown can be therapeutic

  • Comedian Russell Howard recreating a photo of him as a boy in 1982, trying to take cigarettes out of a packet

    Russell Howard looks back: ‘Am I peculiar? You’d struggle to find anyone who does standup who isn’t a bit weird’

  • Louise Young.

    Louise Young: ‘Some hecklers are just excited to be out of the house’

  • Saturday Night stars Ella Hunt, Cory Michael Smith, Gabriel LaBelle, Dylan O’Brien, Rachel Sennott and Lamorne Morris.

    ‘It’s the moment when genius comes into the universe’: the film recreating SNL’s chaotic first night

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Theatre

  • The Three Musketeers, New Vic

    All for one and one for all! The joint joys of in-the-round theatre

  • Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz from Hamlet Camp

    These three actors played Hamlet. Now they’re playing actors in Hamlet rehab

  • Bessie Carter, Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton in 2024 at the London Palladium, where Staunton starred in Hello, Dolly!

    Imelda Staunton and daughter Bessie Carter to star in West End revival of Mrs Warren’s Profession

  • Smiling Michael Sheen

    ‘I’m bursting with ideas’: Michael Sheen launches new national theatre for Wales

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Pictures & video

  • Remembering The Vivienne: Drag Race winner and TV star

  • Sam Tutty  and Dujonna Gift  in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) at the Criterion theatre, London

    Scene stealing: Tristram Kenton’s best theatre and dance shots of 2024

    Wayne McGregor’s MaddAddam, the RSC’s School for Scandal and Robin/Red/Breast with Maxine Peake are among the highlights of the photographer’s work for the Guardian this year
  • A scene from Maddaddam

    Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam morphs into a Wayne McGregor ballet

    A co-production between the Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada, MaddAddam opens at the Royal Opera House, London
  • Overhead view of ballet dancers in a line during a performance

    The Nutcracker ballet in Nairobi

  • Shklyarov joined Mariinsky Theatre in 2003, became its principal dancer in 2011 and went on to perform all over the world

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    Vladimir Shklyarov: a look back at the career of the acclaimed Russian ballet dancer – 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

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You may have missed

  • MARIUPOL DRAMA. Vira Lebedynska. Ukrainian play MARIUPOL DRAMA will have its UK premiere at HOME, Manchester 14 – 18 January 2025.

    ‘If you hear the siren, go to the shelter’: the wrenching play about the bombing of a theatre in Ukraine

  • Nonso Anozie as Elesin in Death and the King's Horseman at the National Theatre, London, in 2009.

    Death and the King’s Horseman: the return of Wole Soyinka’s enduring mystery

    The Nigerian Nobel laureate’s story of a royal servant condemned to kill himself after his master’s death has lost none of its enigmatic appeal
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    Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025

    Gary Oldman’s tackling Beckett, Strictly winner Chris McCausland is on a huge standup tour – and mods can rev their scooters to a dance Quadrophenia
  • Plexus Polaire’s Moby Dick.

    ‘The ungraspable phantom of life’: why puppetry is perfect for plumbing the deep mysteries of Moby-Dick

  • A light show bathes the Scots renaissance architecture of the school in yellow light

    Director of Edinburgh international festival warns cuts put its status at risk

  • Amy Dowden portrait

    ‘If anything goes wrong, it happens to me!’ Strictly’s Amy Dowden on cancer, broken feet – and bouncing back

  • Rebecca Frecknall the theatre director dressed in denim and sitting on an orange chair

    On my radar: Rebecca Frecknall’s cultural highlights

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