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Stage

  • Akram Khan: Gigenis

    Akram Khan: Gigenis review – dancer’s exhilarating return to his roots with an expert ensemble

    In a production loosely based on the Mahabharata, Khan has gathered an expert ensemble of classical Indian dancers who create a world that echoes through the centuries
  • We would like to hear about your favourite theatre shows of 2024.

    Tell us your favourite stage show of 2024

  • One of the many highlights … Jacoba Williams as the Carabiniere in Michael Morpurgo’s Pinocchio at the Watermill theatre, Newbury.

    Michael Morpurgo’s Pinocchio review – there’s nothing wooden about this magical musical

  • Suzi Ruffell

    Suzi Ruffell: ‘If a story is good enough for the pub, I’ll give it a go on stage’

  • Jessica Enemokwu, Paul Brendan and Sha Dessi in The Glorious French Revolution (or: why sometimes it takes a guillotine to get anything done) @ New Diorama Theatre. Written and Directed by Sam Ward. (Opening 18-11-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 11-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Glorious French Revolution review – a romp through history

  • Tammy Faye’s Broadway opening in New York … (l-r) Jake Shears, Christian Borle, Katie Brayben, Elton John, Michael Cerveris and the cast.

    Elton John’s musical Tammy Faye to close on Broadway less than a month after opening

Reviews

  • Kirsty Findlay as Maria, right.

    The Sound of Music review – charming musical nourishes the soul

    In our dark times, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classics offer a sugar-coated disguise for a show with political heft
  • Reba Ayi-Sobsa and Ivan Oyik in By Their Fruits.

    By Their Fruits review – couples therapy meets multidimensional movement

  • Hannah Ellis Ryan, Joe Gill and John O'Neill in Cock at 53two, Manchester.

    Cock review: love lies bleeding in Mike Bartlett’s bitter romantic triangle

  • The week in dance: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas: Exit Above; Flawless: Past, Present, Future; Ballet Black: Heroes – review

  • The Scouse Red Riding Hood review – Grandma gets high in raucous adult panto

  • The Red Shoes review – the RSC’s restyled fairytale doesn’t fit properly

  • Wolves on Road review – high-tempo crypto tale offers poor return

  • MaddAddam review – an epic dance through Margaret Atwood’s dystopia

  • Distant Memories of the Near Future review – dating dystopia makes you glad to be alive now

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Dance

  • Upbeat and convivial … Nobodaddy.

    Michael Keegan-Dolan’s house of dance: ‘I was so caught up with where I’m from – not any more’

    After root-and-branch reworkings of Giselle and Swan Lake, the celebrated Irish choreographer is back with Nobodaddy, a trip ‘through the bottomless pit’
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Comedy

  • Frankie Monroe (Joe Kent-Walters)

    Alternative comedian Joe Kent-Walters: ‘I used to do a strip tease with carrier bags’

  • Janine Harouni’s show addresses her political differences with her Trump-supporting dad.

    ‘People feel terrible. They want to laugh’: can comedy make light of Trump 2.0?

  • 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

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Theatre

  • The Shakespeare Portraits

    Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

  • Emily Richard with husband Edward Petherbridge

    Emily Richard obituary

  • Sigourney Weaver will play Prospero.

    Sigourney Weaver’s West End debut as Prospero evokes a storm of past Tempests

  • Timothy West at Bristol Old Vic in rehearsals for King Lear in 2016.

    ‘In his company, you never knew what would happen next’: remembering Timothy West

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From the archive

  • ‘I knew I wasn’t going to get fired!’ … Idina Menzel as Elphaba in Wicked.

    ‘They changed my ending, I felt aghast’: how we made Wicked

    ‘I once performed Defying Gravity at the White House within spitting distance of the Obamas,’ says Idina Menzel. ‘In fact, I might actually have spat on them’

Pictures & video

  • A scene from Maddaddam

    Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam morphs into a Wayne McGregor ballet

  • 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

    Shklyarov joined Mariinsky Theatre in 2003, became its principal dancer in 2011 and went on to perform all over the world
  • 'We did not consent,' a Guardian documentary by filmmaker Dorothy Allen-Pickard

    We Did Not Consent: a restaging of Britain’s undercover police scandal

    Undercover police officers have infiltrated activist networks and forged relationships with individual women for over 50 years, some fathering children with them. Now, three women – disguised by theatrical masks – who were targeted by ‘spy cops’ seek to take charge of their own stories, restaging emblematic scenes from their lives and reclaiming the narrative
  • Timothy West at the launch of Talking Statues in London, 2014.

    Timothy West – a life in pictures

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Britain at War event at Chiltern Open Air Museum.

    Muskets, chain mail and medieval laundry: behind the boom in historical re-enactment

    Do you fancy a weekend sword fight or touring a castle dressed as a laundress? Volunteers devoted to ‘living history’ events explain their enduring appeal
  • Judith Jamison, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City

    Judith Jamison obituary

    Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey’s company in New York and became its artistic director
  • Treasure Island at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh

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

  • 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’

  • 'Raymond Lloyd' and Sophie Lloyd

    Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man

  • Lilith.Aeon.

    Small step or a giant leap? What AI means for the dance world

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