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Stage

  • Slickly performed … The Empire Strips Back

    The Empire Strips Back review – Chewie gets jiggy in galactic burlesque parody

    Humour abounds in this Star Wars-themed cabaret, as Boba Fett bumps and grinds while Han Solo and Chewbacca share a Backstreet Boys number
  • ‘Dear Loll’ … letters between Gerard and Alice Fay, sent while they were apart during the second world war.

    Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts

  • Dharmesh Patel (Prince), Colm Gormley (Lord Capulet), Marcus Adolphy (Lord Montague) and Calum Callaghan (Tybalt) in Romeo and Juliet.

    Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers transported to the wild west

  • Helena Bell

    Helena Bell obituary

  • A still from The Hamlet Syndrome

    The Hamlet Syndrome review – soldiers turn to Shakespeare as Ukrainians deal with the war

  • Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea in Krapp's Last Tape.

    Holy Krapp! Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea unspool Beckett’s masterpiece about memory

Reviews

  • Skill in spades … Sophie McCartney.

    Sophie McCartney: One Foot in the Rave review – the ‘comedimum’ riffs on wild youth and motherhood

    Profundity is in short supply in this celebration of received thinking about wrinkles and randy husbands – but McCartney makes the familiar shine
  • Tom Rosenthal as Khlestakov and Christopher Middleton as the Head of Schools in The Government Inspector at Chichester Festival theatre

    The Government Inspector review – Tom Rosenthal stirs up Gogol’s political satire

  • Tremendous … Hannah Barrie and Paul O’Mahony in Out of Chaos's Macbeth at Oxford Playhouse.

    Macbeth review – something wicked this way whizzes as dynamic duo play all the roles

  • Scenes from a Repatriation review – 12 ingenious questions about cultural ownership

  • Takeaway review – enormously fun family drama is full of heart

  • Studio3 review – triple whammy of comedy is ferociously funny

  • Titus Andronicus review – Simon Russell Beale is sublime amid epic horrors

  • In C review – Sasha Waltz matches Terry Riley’s 1964 classic with a minimalist community

  • Restless Natives: The Musical review – rambling remake sings different tune to cult 80s movie

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Dance

  • Emilyn Claid

    ‘The audience chucked food at us!’ Emilyn Claid on angry shows, her ballet shame and gardening for Martha Graham

    As she unveils The Trembling Forest with an ensemble of clay-covered performers, the great dance disruptor looks back on decades of radical and autobiographical shows
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Comedy

  • Heartfelt chanson … John Early in Now More Than Ever.

    Search Party’s John Early: ‘You can only take a narcissistic monster for so long – it grates after 10 years’

  • ‘I’m not crying!’ … the much-changed Sarah Silverman, whose new show is called Postmortem.

    Sarah Silverman: ‘I stole material from my dad’s funeral!’

  • Sara Pascoe on stage

    Sara Pascoe: I Am a Strange Gloop review – motherhood as Sisyphean struggle

  • Close-up head shot of Chinese American comedian Charlene Kaye with straight black hair wearing hot pink eye-shadow, lipstick and nail-polish, with her fingers resting on her lower face.

    Charlene Kaye: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

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Theatre

  • Christopher Eccleston, Sophie Okonedo, Saskia Reeves, Mike Myers, Frances McDormand, Peter Dinklage, Paterson Joseph, David Hyde Pierce, Toby Jones

    Why are Hollywood stars lining up to appear in a play they know nothing about?

  • men in suits stand on stage

    Tonys 2025: George Clooney and Nicole Scherzinger land first nominations as Othello snubbed

  • Brendan Gleeson attends the Los Angeles premiere of Joker: Folie a Deux in Hollywood in 2024.

    Brendan Gleeson to make West End debut in Conor McPherson’s The Weir

  • ‘I hope it hits that sweet spot’ … artistic director Indhu Rubasingham, left, and co-chief-executive director Kate Varah.

    Paul Mescal, Stormzy and the return of rep – National Theatre boss reveals her risky debut season

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From the archive

  • Mike Bradwell, David Hatton and Peter Nicholson in Oh What! at Hull Truck.

    ‘I wanted to be a nuisance’: the riotous rise of Hull Truck

    Mike Bradwell
    From its origins 50 years ago in a clapped-out van and a house with broken furniture and feral cats, the theatre company won accolades and abuse in equal measure

Pictures & video

  • The cast of The Great Gatsby

    Puttin’ on the Fitz! The Great Gatsby: A New Musical

  • Tom Burke and Cate Blanchett wait in the wings before presenting an award

    You gotta wear shades: backstage at the Olivier awards

    Guardian photographer David Levene was at the Royal Albert Hall to snap Cate Blanchett, John Lithgow, Lesley Manville, Naomi Campbell and many more
  • Adrien Brody and his mother, the photographer Sylvia Plachy, at the Royal Albert Hall

    Stars come out for the Olivier awards

    Nominees, presenters and guests arrive for London theatre’s big night out at the Royal Albert Hall
  • Natalia Osipova and Christopher Akrill in The Exhibition by Jo Strømgren part of Osipova/Linbury @ Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House. (Opening 06-03-2025) ©Tristram Kenton 02-25 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Natalia’s night: Royal Ballet puts the spotlight on Osipova

  • Steve Coogan's preparations for Dr Strangelove at the Noël Coward Theatre.

    Behind the curtain: what really goes on in theatre dressing rooms?

  • Madame Rosepettle’s ball gown from Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad

    Showstopping sketches: Patricia Zipprodt’s legendary costume designs

  • Becs Black

    Drag kings strut the stage in They Will be Kings

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You may have missed

  • Detail from the artwork for Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things – The First Shadow.

    The best theatre to stream this month: how Stranger Things shook the stage

  • Phoebe Waller-Bridge

    ‘It’s Fleabag’s home – the audience is unshockable’: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more on 25 years of Soho theatre

    The central London institution champions new talent, amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and always takes risks. With a new outpost opening in Walthamstow, artists discuss how the West End venue is not just a place – it’s a philosophy
  • Letter addressed to ‘Mrs Shakspaire’

    Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests

    Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
  • Susanne Sachsse as Professor, and Hauke Heumann as Rabbit.

    ‘A mix of vaudeville and David Lynch’: the hit play about a giant rabbit on a psychoanalyst’s couch

  • Here I go again … Sara Poyzer as Donna in Mamma Mia!, a role she played for 10 years.

    Super troupers! How do stars of long-running hits from Mamma Mia! to The Lion King keep the pizzazz pumping?

  • The Years staged in Amsterdam in 2024.

    From Amsterdam to the West End: the avant-garde hit factory behind The Years and Oedipus

  • ‘People like me can do this’ … Sheehy, left, with Hannah Morrish in The Brightening Air.

    ‘To hell with RP’ … how surprise Olivier nominee Rosie Sheehy is following in Richard Burton’s footsteps

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